He just consistently fails to demonstrate that he's even slightly less dumb than we accuse him of being on our most hyperbolic days. It's getting harder every day to make fun of him; there's no stupider version of him that we can make up.

I'm half-expecting her to silently mouth "Help" the next time she's on camera these days.

Hey, people on both the left and the right taking Stephen Colbert's words out of context and getting super mad about them! It's just like the old days!

You know, I think I'm officially done with giving any member of the opposition even a modicum of respect at
this point. The venn diagram circle for reasonable, loving people and the
one for people who are on Trump's side throughout this national
shit-show are very, very far apart from each other. I'm usually shy of
mak…

Oooh, this is a fun one. I'll stick to my bit and do a few cartoons:
Steven Universe: Love.
Wander Over Yonder: Friendship.
Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Growth.
Gravity Falls: Family.
Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated: Chaos.
Over The Garden Wall: Strange.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Choice.
BoJack Horseman: Emptiness.
Cowboy…

You mean "Trump (god of Trumpder)", right?

I enjoyed this immensely. I really dig this tone that season eight (And, to an extent, season seven) has been adopting: everything is still fun and adventurous, but there's a bit of wistfulness tinging everything. You can really feel the show moving inevitably towards its conclusion, and I think this was a very…

Exactly. Each of the vampires represented a trait Marceline herself possessed and had to deal with. The Fool was her trickster, just-screw-with-everyone impulse, which she dispatched quickly because she hasn't really been like that much since "I Remember You". The Empress was her cold, aloof side, which she was driven…

Oh wow, thank you. I'm sincerely honored, and I'm glad you enjoyed it that much.

Yeah, sorry, typo. But that was my point: probably more than 50% of Adventure Time's fans would say "I Remember You" is the best episode of the whole show. I would disagree, but it's still an extraordinary piece of television. I'm not saying your opinion isn't valid, it's just particularly odd to hear possibly the…

That's like saying "Last One Out of Springfield" ruined The Simpsons, but, eh, to each their own.

I mostly visit the AV Club just for the comments anyway at this point, so I don't have much of a feel for the general quality of the writing.

Yusss. Although, no Snicket-related news will ever make me as happy as NPH getting the eye tattoo for real in celebration of season 2 being announced, that being the first tattoo he's ever had. That made my decade.

They only have thirty episodes left; they've got to be pretty plot-heavy if they want to wrap up everything that needs wrapping up. The miniseries format seems to be the best way for them to do that.

I refuse to watch that show out of loyalty to the Stephen Fry show "Kingdom", the best bedtime viewing in television history. It irks me that that show isn't that other show.

My dad started showing me Orphan Black, which seems up my street, and I started showing him BoJack Horseman, which I think is up his street. I finally finished The Red Badge of Courage, which took me entirely too long for such a tiny book. Also, Paterson is amazing, and I'll post my thoughts on it here in a few days…

That definitely makes the top ten, but I think "Green Bird" is probably #6. Although I have a hard time assessing that song separately from the sequence it's played over.

Top five songs from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack:
1. "Rain"
2. "Blue"
3. "Call Me"
4. "Space Lion"
5. "The Real Folk Blues"

Could be. Season 7 was rather spectacular, but it's the only time that I haven't been 100% certain that a season was better than the one before it. Season 6 is such a unique, challenging piece of television; you can pour over it endlessly and still find significant little details and connections you hadn't seen…

I disagree. I don't think the show's change in pace was due to Pen Ward stepping down; he was already far from the dominant voice in the show when that happened. Plus, watching those middle seasons as a piece, they're perfectly cohesive, it's just hard to see how sometimes going by individual episodes because they're…