Sandman87

The unnamed Grail operative in the missile silo summed up my feelings about the episode perfectly: "That was disappointing."

The fight at Holy Bar and Grail was still going on! It's been months! In this show God acts more like traditional representations of the Devil. Offering Faustian "deals" and so on. Interesting that God told a story about Cain and Abel, considering that he played favorites with them just like he's doing with Jesus and Humperdoo. Some folks never learn. Well, Pestilence is supposed to be one of the four horsemen...

And speaking of the Holy (Bar And) Grail, Cassidy's comment about "I'll help you with all the bodies" when he thought it was the owner knocking made me wonder - just how many angel and demon bodies are there stacked up now in the lounge area? How long did the fight go on anyway? Long enough to make some holes in the sign outside. And who won? And how long have the bodies been sitting there? Months? Yuck.

I imagine the production meeting for the episode went something like this: "I've decided that this time we're going to be as gross as possible." "Ooh, ooh! Can we do something like the 'Mr. Creosote' sketch? I've always wanted to do a vomit scene." "Sure. Maybe we can work in some cannibalism and eyeball biting while we're at it." -------------------- I guess losing body parts was Starr's hobby for a while. I wonder if the "Jesus can't be messiah but Humperdoo can" thing was inspired by the story of Lancelot and Galahad and the Grail quest (Lancelot fails the quest because he sinned, but his illegitimate son Galahad succeeds.) When Jesse started getting back his bad attitude during the conversation with God, and God said "I made you in My own image", I half expected Jesse to come back with "maybe that's why people are such assholes." But he didn't.

A snot based technique. Makes me wonder what other delightful ninja abilities there are that are based on bodily fluids. Other than Kiba having Akamaru urinate everywhere, I mean: "Fecal Cannon Jutsu!!!" "Secret Technique: Acid Wave! Vomit Tsunami!"

I thought the White Zetsu clones were all supposed to be super enhanced by Kabuto, but they just stand there while various named characters demolish them. It's like the Great Ninja Alliance is fighting an army of slightly mobile cauliflower plants. I had forgotten about Gaara's creepy spy-eye ability.

I've been contemplating this, and have come to a realization: None of the characters who are doing the gen:Lock thing with the suits are the originals. The originals are all dead. When the minds are uploaded, they're copied to the suits, and then erased from their bodies. And then it gets done again in reverse later, making a new copy and erasing the old one. It's the same deal as the process that occurs when you move a computer file from one disk drive to another - the computer makes a copy at the new location, then erases the original. It's similar to the argument about the way that functional teleportation would work; you get killed, but a copy gets made over there somewhere. So in a nutshell, being a gen:Lock pilot means that you'll die, but a spiffy identical copy of you will get to inhabit your body.

"Shiny new mouth" makes me think of Jaws from the Bond films.

So Hoover 2 really was a "Hoover", as in FBI. Too bad this isn't a Fox show, so Mulder and Scully could do a cameo. I wonder if we're done with Eugene now. Probably not.

They did, but it's not going to be much of an apocalypse if it's not a nuclear war. In that case it might end up like this: New Zealander: "You bastards! Take this!" (hurls a koala) Australian: "Aaah! Biological warfare!* Fire the platypult!" (duck-billed platypi start raining from the sky) Not a pretty picture. * Koalas are known to carry chlamydia.

"Beloved Deputy Prime Minister"? That's possibly the most unrealistic thing in the show so far. Apparently the big plan is to kick the apocalypse off by having Australia and New Zealand fight a nuclear war with each other. I wonder if maybe someone at Grail headquarters should have done some research, because neither country has any nuclear weapons. Incidentally, the Grail's bomb was cute; a miniature version of Fat Man. I doubt that it cured global warming either.

One of the commercial break bumps on [Adult Swim] taught me something so bizarre that I had to look it up to verify it: Parts of nineteenth century Austria had a festive courtship ritual in which the eligible ladies would dance while holding a slice of apple in their armpit, and then, after they were done dancing, would offer it the eligible gentleman that they were interested in. The gentleman would indicate that he was interested in the lady by accepting the apple slice, and possibly eating it. Mmmm...sweaty armpit apples!

I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by the Eternal Garage Scene. Still not as bad as the shuttle ride in the first episode of ST:TNG. And so Eugene loses his innocence. I wonder what Hitler will do to get even with Starr for beating him up. You know he's not just going to let it slide. I also wonder if Starr's new ear is going to fall off like the other one did.

Seems pretty obvious that Ryogi's uncle has ulterior motives for doing the Robin Hood routine. Like maybe he just wants to cause chaos in the Leaf.

3D with motion capture, then processed to give it a rotoscoped look. Kind of reminds me of the video game that David Duchovny did voice work for, Bad Day L.A. The characters and dialog remind me of one of Will Smith's action movies. The scientist dude probably figures that pain is an important source of information which lets you know how badly you're damaged.

I can save the brainy guy on Dr. Stone a whole lot of trouble on that brandy making project: Just make some wine and then stick it out in the snow until it gets slushy. Discard the ice, and the remaining liquid will have a significantly higher alcohol content.

"The bad guys attacked our ability to play internet games! Those bastards!" Cammie gets her head ripped off by a new enemy mecha with four arms. Unfortunately it isn't fatal. Ah well, maybe next time. Loved the running gags of the globe rolling across the battlefield and Kazu preferring to bash things.

Naruto gets some more practice wrangling his Beast. In a nice way, I mean. Kabuto shows Madara the special thing that he does with dead people. And the underground clone army gets intercepted by the ninja army. The volcano spewing the clones made me think of a certain J.G. Thirlwell project.

You forgot "evil telekinetic alien overlord."

I feel like this thread was made for me. I've been meeting celebrities since I was a few weeks old, partly because my parents knew a lot of entertainers through their respective jobs, partly from my involvement in TV and radio, partly through random encounters. A few examples: I've been told that Buddy Rich baby-sat me for about an hour during a party back when I was just a few months old. Last week I met Stephen Kupka from Tower of Power while I was at work. My current job has absolutely nothing to do with any aspect of entertainment, he just happened to be randomly hanging with some of my customers. Nice guy. Stan Ridgway and his manager once sicced some nightclub bouncers on me during his show's intermission because Stan thought I was making a bootleg recording. I let the bouncers search me (surprise, no recording going on), then told all and sundry to go fuck themselves and left the club. The TV station that I used to work at did some production work for Merl Haggard. I met him briefly at our studio. I spoke with Henry Rollins for a few minutes after one of his spoken word performances. Nice guy, talked a mile a minute. Was a bit shorter in person than I thought he'd be.

Kitten update: The miniature monsters are now both named. The girl (Mom's cat) is Shy. I had a re-think about "my" cat's name, so now his first name is Mortimer, and his middle name is Zoogz.

gen:Lock is pretty good so far, although I nominate the Scottish girl as the team's first casualty. So annoying. Maybe it's a bad promo, but Dr. Stone looks like it's going to be Dr Snore.

I always feel like hiding under the bed whenever Kankuro fights anyone. He and his puppets are built to trigger pretty much every phobia there is. Clowns, spiders, creepy puppets, and so on. And don't even get me started about the puppet that traps you in a dark, confined space and then murders you with sharp objects. In any case, his fight with Sasori was a letdown. Sasori's corpse vs. Sasori's other (puppet) corpse should have been a five-star battle. I'm pretty sure that's the only time I've ever seen Sai get mad.

Mirio should wear a cute dog costume and call himself Wiener Dog. "POWER!" seems like an awfully random battle cry. I wonder what quirks the other 2 Big Three students have.

I was looking forward to some scenes in Bensonhurst. Looks like that's not happening now. Boy, Hoover 2 will talk your ear right off! Is the Earth dead now that the cowboy shot it? Did he just cause the eventual end of the world?