I disagree that any of the power NMH hold for people is because "The less listenable an album was, the more the artist 'really means it'." Mainly because NMH are, in the grand scheme of things, a very listenable band. There's nothing particularly edgy about their sound: it's unique, but not especially avant-garde.…

My dad is a great admirer of Aeroplane (I won't say "Fan", as he can't bring himself to actually listen to it very often, but that should tell you that he gets it), and the line "Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore" always really got to him. He said to me once that the most devastating thing about…

I think you'll find that it's "Irascible coxswain Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire".

The Magnetic Fields did "Heroes" pretty well.

Oh, I don't think there's any question that we're wrapping up. Last season was the hero's third-act crisis of identity, this season is the triumphant emergence from that place and the ramp-up towards the big finale. It's already been confirmed that there will be an eighth season; I would be very surprised if there was…

I don't think the show is apologizing for itself, it's just showing how the characters have grown, Finn in particular.

So, last season, almost every appearance from Finn had something to do with his uncertainty, following what happened with Martin. The running theme this year seems to be that every time he shows up, he does something really mature: stopping Marceline from killing the Vampire King after he surrendered, carefully asking…

I can' tell if you're joking or not.

Trump, to congress after being told that war with Canada would be inadvisable: "You're not my supervisors!"

"I struggle sometimes trying to figure out what Sava wants tv shows to be."
Well, I can help you out there: he wants them to be comic books.

I guess I'm one of the only defenders of Derek. It's nowhere near as funny as his first two shows, but I thought it was genuinely sweet.

It's certainly no demonstration of talent on Ricky's part, but it's still something I feel greatly indebted to him for.

I have adored Merchant in everything he has popped up in since those XFM shows, but I could count those on one hand. In that sense he's consistent, but compared to Ricky, he only barely has a career at all.

The fantastic irony is that Karl has had the most consistently entertaining career out of all three of them.

Plus, he introduced the world to Karl Pilkington. It takes a lot more than some smugness to get on my shitlist after a solid like that.

As a child, yes, in that case we're wrong.

Of course the show becomes wildly successful after one of the most brilliant late night hosts ever steps down and is replaced by YouTube incarnate. It's a great day for America, everybody.

Spot on. I'm interested to see if the grass sword manifesting itself again will result in another crisis of identity like the one Finn struggled with last season. I know a lot of people will groan at the mere suggestion of plunging back into those waters, but I don't think it would be like that: this season has taken…

The sad thing is that they probably won't. This run of regularly scheduled episodes had the worst ratings this show has ever had, with last week's episode dipping below a million viewers. We can moan all we want about a week of episodes followed by three months of nothing being lame, but if more people watch that way,…

No, I think that was a conscious choice on Moynihan's part. He later said it was meant to evoke Campbell's heroic journey: the hero's lowest point is the point at which they have an epiphany. Finn tries to hold on to someone toxic so hard that it takes away a piece of him; then, after he's sunk so far into depression…