If it wasn’t clear (it probably wasn’t) I think collective bargaining organizations are a vital and important check against workplace abuse and corporate greed. Unions are fine by me.

A bit of a semantic difference, but I’ll concede it. I don’t actually disapprove or have a problem with it, if it seems like I do. I just wanted to point out not everyone has the luxury to pick and choose.

As I said, “yeah, yeah, Wal-Mart”. People have strong opinions, I know. It’s easy to protest-shop when you have a lot of alternatives. There aren’t many where I live. And nowhere offhand I can think of actually employ unions anyway, as far as I can tell.

I just can’t fault BoJack trying to do the waiting up/”where have you been?” moment. Lest we all forget, he was a sitcom dad for years. Somewhere deep down in that booze-and-pill fried brain of his, he has a terrible, terrible instruction manual for exactly that situation baked in. He probably didn’t even realize what…

Well here’s the deal with that, from my perspective. I’ll use Wal-Mart (yeah, yeah, Wal-Mart) as my example, because that’s the only place I regularly shop that has a self-checkout.

No, no, this issue actually reiterates the notion that death is a joke. Death herself calls it out. Here she’s basically saying “Yes, death is kind of a joke, but you managed to die too many times in a row somehow. GET IT TOGETHER.”

I’m the sort of person who enjoys elaborate intros. I also like to let the end credits run through. I hate when end credits are sped up, squished, or otherwise eliminated. (Notable exception: the tacked on international credits I see added to more and more stuff that have no music or style. Bojack Horseman had a good…

“Wrath” is essentially similar to the excellent Masterpiece Grimlock, with the addition of a combining feature. Similar enough to the point that I initially thought it was a copy of MP Grimlock when I first saw it. Both figures sold for about $150-200USD, unlike the green RID Grimlock, which retailed for around…

I found myself having the opposite experience. A local gas station had the VS Super Mario Bros when I was a kid. I played it a couple times. Not being able to breeze through world 1-1 through sheer muscle memory (mix of arcade controls and the mixed up items) frustrated me, so I never wasted another quarter on it. But…

Or an emulator for a PC or other device you already own, if you’re going that direction. Kind of beside the point! Some people want these things through legit channels.

If you mean the version from the 1980s TV revival, then yes. :D

FINALLY a Shuki Levy theme gets a callout.

It did get called out in the initial post, so there’s that. Voyager takes a lot of abuse, but you can’t fault its opening credits.

Especially when they did the new version of it a few seasons in. I always liked it from the start, but while the remake toned down the “lonely horn” aesthetic a bit, it added so much overall heft and gravitas to it to go with the upgraded visuals in the intro.

Pizza Hut -still- pushes the “special crust” gimmick nonsense to ridiculous extremes. They push it like it’s some kind of side item instead of an important and integral part of the pizza. More frequently these days, they encourage you to rip the crust off and eat it separately, because they literally have made it into…

Well, we don’t get a clear look at it, but the chair had a console in the arm. It’s a little odd that he referred to it as “his station” and it’s just a little arm-rest builtin, but those have been standard on Star Trek (and this is basically Star Trek) captain’s chairs since TOS.

I just couldn’t help remembering reading how, with TNG, they purposely wrote in scenes in Main Engineering and such in the pilot, to ensure that the sets actually got built in the first place.

I can’t say I liked it, but I didn’t hate it. I found it to be mediocre, because it couldn’t decide what kind of show it was. Also the sets all felt really cheap. Seriously, I have a whole raft of observations and commentary about the sets that I dump out here.

I wish the unisex “skant” outfit had stayed around. I really do. Just because I like the notion that the norms of the future won’t match the norms of the present.

Hey, infinite universe!