In hindsight, he was Robin.

Fuck.  Yes.

It’s nice to see Whattimeisitnow.com expand its programming options after the sudden cancellation of Philbert.

The lesson, as always, is that more people need to watch Bojack Horseman.

Agreed. The Corrections is part of the modern canon; everything else is puzzling, sometimes good, but never great. Special mention to 27th City, the plot of which involves descendants of Gandhi somehow all relocating to St. Louis in the 80s and orchestrating an authoritarian municipal coup.  It’s like an acid trip…

“Tenderness” is one of the best songs of the last decade.

Sorry. My arbitrary and judgmental whims cannot be reversed.

I will continue to pretend that The Moon and Antarctica was indie rock’s greatest farewell album.

Probably 15 years ago or so, someone yelled out for Freebird at a Built To Spill show, and on the spot they played an epic, 10 minute, faithful cover of it.  Perhaps the key to drunks yelling Freebird is to ask for it from a band that logically might actually play that song.

This is a great piece of writing, Tom, but this line slayed me (metaphorically!):

A band that wrote Panic cannot be said to have no sense of humor.

Yeah, he did a comedy show at my law school (!) around 2004. They ended up giving most of the tickets away for free. He took the stage almost 2 hours late, and most of his jokes were shitting on his SBTB castmates, including homophobic Mark Paul Gosselar insults.  It was sad to behold.

There are a few times throughout the show where Bojack references drowning (including a soliloquy in which he basically imagines the end of The Awakening for himself). Then, of course, there’s the events of The View From Halfway Down. It’s definitely a motif of the show. A big question is “what if Bojack hadn’t gotten…

It’s not mentioned in any of the reviews I’ve seen, but Bojack is a classic Greek tragedy. Bojack’s fatal flaw(s) and hubris (getting cocky and doing a disastrous second interview with Biscuits Braxby) cause his tragic fall.

It’s an extremely funny show. It’s full of absurd hijinx, sight gags, show biz satire, and goofy characters.  It plays well to anyone with a Simpsons-tinged humor palette.  It just also happens to be emotionally devastating.

It’s like someone made a movie out of We Didn’t Start The Fire.

You can’t make a Tomelette without breaking some Gregs.

Ah yes, the Clash’s innovator, Mick James.

I assumed that would be the premise of Toy Story 4.  I bet they do it some day.

In an alternate film universe, the scene ends with the aliens declaring that they are God now, and periodically we get glimpses of them wreaking havoc elsewhere in the TS world.