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The Postal Service’s Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello linked up with Tom Scharpling, Jon Daly, and a surprising slew…
Jan 8
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The Adam Sandler Decides To Give A Shit Shift is a well-documented and understood phenomenon at this point, with the…
Apr 16 2018
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None of Steven Universe’s Beach City characters have had arcs as complete as Lars and Sadie. Lars, grumpy and…
Feb 27 2018
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Big news, comedy fans: Our comedy festival returns May 30-June 3 at various venues in Chicago under a new name, The…
Dec 15 2017
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“Lion 4” has pretty big shoes to fill: The “Lion” series has produced some of the best episodes of Steven Universe,…
Feb 2 2017
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When Steven and Greg are taken to the Amethysts’ quarters, it seems like “That Will Be All” is going to be a tense…
Jan 30 2017
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As many attentive Steven fans will know, anything that appears on a TV at the beginning of an episode will come back…
Dec 1 2016
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Just a week after the fall special, we get another seasonal Steven Universe, this time a flashback to the winter…
Jul 29 2016
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Who is Greg Universe? He’s a rock star, a loving father to Steven, a goofy paramour for Rose, a car wash attendant……
Jul 19 2016
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The full Steven Universe musical is here, and it is delightful. Joe Johnston and Jeff Liu turn out a great series of…
Apr 25 2016
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One of the weirdest mainstays of Billy Crystal’s stand-up act, something he’s been doing since the 1970s, is his…
Mar 13 2016
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There’s nothing wrong with an outlandish Simpsons premise, and “The Marge-ian Chronicles” references one of the…
Jan 8 2016
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One of the best things about Steven Universe is that the show is consistently from Steven’s point of view. We learn…
Nov 19 2015
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Beloved curmudgeon (and voice actor, and radio host, and musician) Tom Scharpling has a new cause to grumble about,…
Jun 18 2015
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Someone in the comments yesterday suggested that the theme of this season was shaping up to be the nature of fusion…
Apr 23 2015
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Who is Jermaine the Dog? Finn and Jake’s brother has been mentioned a few times on Adventure Time, but the show has…
Apr 9 2015
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“Story For Steven” is the last episode produced from the first season to run late, moved past its original air date…
Mar 10 2015
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Here we go! It seems like Steven Universe is about to get a lot more serious, because the Gems are coming. (I say…
Oct 16 2014
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Scharpling & Wurster, the comedy duo whose funny phone calls punctuated the now-dead, soon-to-be-revived Best Show,…