Yeah, dead wrong. SCTV was as consistently funny and well-crafted as The Simpsons. Period.

Several of these look like they could be the covers of nonexistent Residents albums…

Sounds like a Young Marble Giants song, kinda.

Oh hey, look, A character with the last name "Spumoni" in a Nickelodeon cartoon….hmmm….

Which is funny, because if the only thing the latter company has ever really been known for is sattelite radio, then WTF is it doing even existing in 1994/5?! Ah well, I was young….

I swear I always thought that joke was in reference to some obscure old business insider headline regarding a short-lived merge of Yahoo! and Sirius, and the subsequent dumb, briefly over-reiterated joke about same….

Re: The lack of a Big homage - Probably because its the same toystore we see in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", and Homer already did the whole Tom Hanks bit at the end of that one.

Wow, a Simpsons review that gives a shout-out to the only person who worked on that show I know personally! I'd better tell Neil next time I see him!

(Also, I just seriously love the way Jason Ritter has utterly NAILED DOWN that sorta beta-male secret fearless whiz kid feeling in his delivery. "Dipper Pines: Fears Nothing, Is Vaguely Apprehensive Towards Everything.")

Hey, you know what I would have liked to see in this episode? Mabel actually defending Dipper! I mean, at least enough to get those girls to sorta slink away as opposed to namecalling him as they storm off. And, following this, an exchange sorta like the following:

Uh…..where the hell were you two weeks ago? Asking Wendy to prove her cred here after the XX—chromosoned badassery on display when she made her little speech and punched that tree is like waiting for Polly Styrene to make a guest appearance on a Joan Jett album before deeming her The Real Deal. Besides, her being on…

This issue is a perfect case in point of where a certain kind of informed cynicism can exist to the benefit of empathy - the degree of awareness young women have these days about what kind of weird shit men their age have been taught all their lives makes it possible to handle these sorts of contrived romantic…

Way to conveniently brush aside the fact that the girls turn on Dipper with outrageously hostile, pejorative language the second he makes a confession of scalding vulnerability. Remember that every modern feminist writer/speaker who actually gets listened to now is talking about how it helps men. Just because the show…

Also applicable vis-a-vis Scientology: "I Don't Need No Doctor".

Isn't that the building Axe Cop lives in?

Also suggested: "Violent Jay's Beach Boys Barbecue Blowout Bash Blast".

IT WAS CRAZY CLOWN TIME.
IT WAS REALLY FUN.

Really? For killing a guy who could hear music five years before it's written? (Or maybe he was just on some REALLY good acid….)

Well, it's a little more complicated than that binary. Mostly I think it aims to undermine the believability of people with a certain kind of messiah complex by showing the absurdity and ugliness beneath the suspiciously shiny facade, (Gideon) while contrasting this with the kind of skepticism, curiosity and selfless…

And don't try to tell me that "Corporal Clegg" can fuck off, either - if you can't hear the Gong, your ears have gone wrong….