Also, Moynihan continues to live up to his reputation as the guy who brings back obscure characters. We haven't seen those spiky people since the last episode of season 1.

I thought this show wasn't for you.

"Waking up screaming again. Breakup? Lich? Me dying? You dying? Other breakup? Growing up? Never growing up? Or spiders?"

She wasn't just Patton Oswalt's wife, she was a noted crime author. She was significant enough in her own right to warrant a Newswire, I think.

I just love how even Tom Petty, the perpetually mellow veteran who values roots and groove over bash and pop, has this look on his face like "Holy shit, what the hell is this guy made of?"

I just meant to exclude the 2000s as well as the 90s.

As someone who did grow up watching this stuff, all of it is garbage. Disney Channel managed a handful of transcendentally amazing cartoons in the 2010s and that's about it.

And in fact, when Adventure Time did start airing more erratically during season six, a lot of people drifted away from it. And now that season seven is pretty much keeping to schedule, it's been winning a lot of those people back.
Granted, that's partially because season six was basically a serialized animated…

You mean "AND THAT'S. O. KAY!!!!"

You will always be a loser, you will always be a loser…

To me, it's not that it's darker than any other show on the air, but it manages to be dark while still having thoroughly likeable characters, which not every other show does. The story of Lemongrab is a fascinating exploration of corruption, but it remains sympathetic to its subject even as he becomes a monster,…

Saw these guys bash out "Bastards of Young" together at the 40 Watt a few weeks back. Good times.

I wouldn't say utterly ruthless. I think she tried to meet a cold world with a cold attitude, and her vision got narrower and narrower until it was black and white, "My kingdom and the enemy." That's what lead to her downfall at the end of season six, and this season she's been trying to come back from that extreme…

The thing about LSP is that they still present her as a jerk, and what's compelling about her is that she isn't very developed because she won't allow herself to develop. "Bad Timing", the best episode to ever focus on her, shows her very actively, in no uncertain terms, refusing to learn from her mistakes and grow as…

It gets worse. There's drama in that show worthy of P.T. Anderson. You should catch up; it's one of the best TV shows of its generation, animated or otherwise.

Not boyfriend, father figure, since her real father abandoned her in the nuclear wasteland.

That's an action. I'm talking about the way he's written. You're misunderstanding me: a Superman who's a work in progress should still be enjoyable as Superman, especially if you're going to drag his origin story across three movies for six years. Compare to season one of Daredevil: Matt is still figuring out what…

Well, maybe that's the tragic irony: he has the genes of a Rainicorn, which make him physically mature in, like, a day, but also has the genes of Jake, which keep him mentally hovering around eighteen forever.

I don't have a problem with an uncertain Superman either, but it's a general given of super-hero origin stories that they establish the appeal their subject will present to the audience once their origin is complete, even while they are still forming their identity. The first season of Daredevil did that excellently,…

That's the thing: Regular Show is a comedy, with maybe the occasional dramatic element. Adventure Time is not a comedy, it just has very frequently indulged comedic elements. Adventure Time has more in common with Cowboy Bebop than Regular Show.