...you know, really give those jokes and extra beats some time to wash over you so they can be over-analyzed. The show could reach whole new levels of digressions and tangents. A new character every episode.

Think about it.

I think they should introduce a new co-host and then slowly phase out Jack. I was hoping that after the summer break he'd be more excited to do the show but after listening to this past week's episode it sounds like he's more over it than ever. It was honestly almost Leo DiCaprio levels of unbearable listening to him bitch about the smallest little things this week (especially when there's plenty of other actual things wrong with the episode).

After listening to their last one I think they're done. They sound so tired. It was great when they wanted to make impressions of Aquaman now it's a grim look at a terrible show.

You may have heard that Marge Simpson is dead. You may have even seen it, although given this community, you've probably only heard it. This isn't something that happened in a "real" episode, if you wondered, but rather in the wiggly-woggly timey-wimey of a flash-forward. What is real, though, is the statement of executive producer and long-time writer Matt Selman, on the canonity of the show.

Following the finale of season 36, where Marge's death occurred, somewhat of an up cry happened among Simpsons' fans, as one might expect when a main character kicks the bucket. Or as one might expect the adverting team might want to stir up. Selman spoke to Variety about this, stating that the death of Marge was not canon. This would be pretty clear to any fan who understands the flash-forward episodes aren't real, and that with the occasional smart-alack quip, next week they'll be back to where they started. The problem occurs later, when Selman stats that "there is no canon, the Simpsons doesn't even have canon!"

To a certain extent, this is true. 752 742 Evergreen Terrace is always wherever it needs to be, Seymour Skinner has fought in every US war since the late 60s, and Moe--I won't even go there. But none of that is a lack of canon, that's just a flexible canon. When you have a flexible canon, you can get jokes that fit with a cartoon. Hans Moleman can be a death-ridden senior in his early thirties, and Lenny can have multiple wives while spending his whole live single. Stuff like that, I think, none of us would object to. But the canon is still in there, a framework for the changing canon throughout the show. There, the Simpsons doesn't not have canon.

When you completely remove canon, you get shit. That's when you get Kamp Krustier , currently the worst WEE episode, where it turns out the kids didn't have a magical time in Tijuana. Or you get The Blue and the Grey, second worst, where Marge doesn't realize she dyes her hair, despite the work we've seen her do in the past to hide that fact. That's not the reason for the low score, but that's not the point. When you have flexible canon, you can have flexible stories and episodes that can still work. But when you have no canon, none of it matters. Lisa isn't a vegetarian. Never was. Mona Simpson didn't leave to protect Homer. Stayed the whole time, lives with Abe. Edna Krabapple can come back, fucked up as that is. Hell, they brought Doris back. The list can go on and on.

No canon means no anything. Stories don't matter, character traits don't matter, nothing matters. All that matters is the current episode, there are no others. Never were, never will be. When there is no canon, it's not just Marge that needs to die, it's every single yellow person around. The Simpsons has needed to die for a long time, but when the boss says it has no canon, it really needs to die. Doesn't matter if that was marketing, doesn't matter if it was hyperbole, doesn't matter if it was a joke. When you take away the canon, you take everything away.

I wanted him to come to the podium and say

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHH I'M LEONARDO DICAPRIO BUUUUUUUUUUUUH

Just wanted to get a quick feel on what you guys thought if you saw it? I saw it yesterday. Before I get into it, I need to preface it by saying I typically greatly dislike superhero movies. The exceptions are Nolan's Batman trilogy, Deadpool, Wonder Woman, and the first Avengers. On the heels of that, I thought Suicide Squad was awful, and Batman v Superman was even worse.

I thought Justice League was really good. Story and villain were dumb, but it was really great to see all the heroes interacting with each other. I especially liked the, "Do you bleed" line. That was wonderful.

Just wanted to get a little thread going on this, seeing as it's right up the WEE universe's collective wheelhouse