Pokemon Go was uniquely suited for the AR format because there are now multiple generations of people who grew up fantasizing about traveling around their hometowns and catching those little fuckers. And Go’s big pitch was that you really could sort of do that! But there’s not really any other franchise that lends…

“his whole PR image at the time was satanism”

TP came out on the Gamecube after the dev team had another four years to learn their way around the hardware. That makes a huge difference in terms of what can be done.

Aidy Bryant, of course!

They can remove the filibuster; they could do it today. 48 of the 50 needed votes are already there. But they are being blocked by two senators who think the stupid filibuster is more important than anything else.

“Name a more iconic duo”

HOW TO JUSTIFY THE EXISTENCE OF A SEQUEL:

Yeah, poverty can’t possibly exist in the same place where there’s ukuleles.

Don’t worry about Roy, he’s moving into his own apartment with two sexy ladies.

A man came up to me, and we’re seeing this all over the country, a man came up to me and said, “YOU SEE THEO, WHEN I WAS A BOY ME AND MY FIVE JAZZ GRANDPAS USED TO EAT THE JELLO PUDDIN’ POPS.”

Having the Clan Destine show up is one hell of a deep cut; I think the last time they showed up anywhere in the comics was a quick cameo or two more than a decade ago. A forgotten bit a Marvel history, they were a wealthy family of immortals with Djinn ancestry (the patriarch, a European explorer, married a Djinn…

There’s probably a 30 Rock joke in here somewhere about NBC refusing to let people leave the building even when they no longer work there.

Adding an extra Simpson family member with no explanation? Like everything else in life, The Simpsons already did this.

I think you could, but it would probably get a lot less attention than this. The joke with Graggle is how obviously fake and out of place he is.

Calm down. The point isn’t that they star straight white characters, it’s that when these movies fail, no one goes “DUUUUH CLEARLY IT FAILED BECAUSE AUDIENCES ARE TIRED OF WHITE STRAIGHT CHARACTERS.” Because that would be a ridiculous thing to say. But when a movie starring any other group fails, that’s always the…

What the hell are you babbling about? If a kid sees a chaste smooch between two women and instantly starts asking about SCISSORING, then they are well past the point where a lesbian kiss is going to surprise or confuse them.

I hadn’t thought of that, but you’re not wrong. Honestly it feels like the framing device of “this is a movie Andy saw before Toy Story 1!” was tacked-on after the fact to avoid confusing the audience, and the Pixar team wasn’t thinking of it when making the film.

The biggest culprit in this debacle is the outdated Hollywood perception that audiences are obsessed with celebrity and simply won’t go see a movie unless there’s a famous name you can stick above the logo.

Chris Melendrari’s first meeting of the day:

What if Mario only said a few one-liners like in the games? What if, like the games, the story was told mostly through wordless action and pantomime with minimal dialogue, thus eliminating the need for gimmicky celebrity voices and actually producing something closer to the spirit of the source material?