My take was somewhat more modest, it's an illustration how incredibly parochial English language media can be.

Yes that's very well put. My corollary would be that if it is there forever, you might still not find it.

*Blu-ray (I won't settle for less), though half of the thing is that the clips were pretty perfectly chosen and had sweet sweet gentle lo fi sadness pushing through.

If you want the essentials without reading the book, Ortved wrote a piece with the same thesis for Vanity Fair. I just forgot it while I was writing my review. You do miss out on a lot of gossip and bad blood that really help sell that Groening was more of a deistic creator who helped set the machine in motion but didn't interfere with it.

Another thing I forgot is that David Silverman really is a champ and basically helped to show not to explode during the production of the first season. He was like one of the three creative workers on Klasky-Csupo back when the company was hired by Gracie Films or Fox, can't remember which one.

Thing is some of his scripts are really stealthy. Like he wrote some pretty well done pro-environmentalism shows and yet the rumour is that he thinks that the Amazon jungle was doing just fine. He also has this reputation of being a straight joke man, not good at plotting or writing the more emotional episodes but actually wrote some of the best romantic comedy episodes.

One thing the book does say about John is that the content in Itchy & Scratchy segments were really his doing though I think the general concept was cooked up by Sam Simon. That really wasn't the impression that the fandom had of John's work, I don't think it was usual to tie him with slapstick or gore.

I can't believe this

Honestly with the amount of self-described Khaleesis on social media, I assume that a lot of people just genuinely reasoned from blondness that Daenerys was Baenerys. Case in point: Fox talking heads line ups, Theranos etc. for the power of blondness.

This rules

I think the video is a joke; is starts with reasonable advice and devolves into silliness, side tangents and such. (Tim Rogers has done list videos toying like this before.) I think Tim sincerely avoids spoilers though and has his system for recommendations.

Honestly this makes me want to renegade plant a whole bunch of female trees, to soak up pollen, to feed the squirrels and the jackdaws, to begin a new era.