Eat a Dick, 2016!

This season's Survivor finale was depressing. The winner, whose mother had cancer, won unanimously, but the mother died before it was made official (he'd told her he won upon his return and she died soon after). That's one of the saddest things in Survivor history. This whole year was pretty sad and challenging for the most part, but I don't want to talk about that. It wasn't all bad, but the Top 10 Reasons Why 2016 Was the Worst from WatchMojo sums it up pretty well - except that it needs to be updated to include more celebrity deaths since it was posted.

Digimon Appli Monsters was great at first, but it has been showing its stupid lately. I'm pretty sure Raidramon already exists, yet they gave that name to one of the Appmon. Also, the Christmas episode was painfully stupid. The digital calendars don't have Christmas Eve and Day on them all of a sudden, guess they don't exist anymore. How dumb are these people? These monsters don't change reality, only electronics (which can cause trouble, but not reality-bending). At least they made a reference to season one by having Calendamon start with August 1 when he was changing the date around. I can put up with the pop idol and the Pewdiepie wanna-be, but even they're starting to get on my nerves as they seem to be one-note characters. It's okay for them to have catchphrases, but do they have to say them every episode? Haru doesn't go on about wanting to be a main character all the time, and that's part of why I like him. I still don't know what the deal is with his friend whom he called a main character type. (He called himself a side character at first only for his friend to tell him that he's wrong. If this was abridged, specifically by Manitoug10, the "because I'm not a homo side character" joke would apply like Ouran.)

I'm glad I watched Galavant season 2 on Netflix. Since I stopped watching TV altogether (with a few exceptions), I had no idea that I had missed the premiere date and essentially all of it. ABC cancelled it, of course, but if Netflix picks it up it'll be the best thing ever. Still, the only plot line left to resolve is Gareth and Sid going to save Madelena from herself, but I'd watch that. Especially if they can get Weird Al back a third time. Ending season 2 with him was fantastic.

The recent chapter of CCS Clear Card arc was pretty cool. Sakura had to fake a stomach ache to get out of class to catch a card, but otherwise no one else was around. More self-referential humor as well.

Top 15(?) Disney Movies

I decided to make a list of my top 5 Disney feature films, Pixar films, and direct-to-video releases. So it's not really a top 15 but only sort of. It was hard narrowing it down to just five each. For the direct-to-video, I decided to stay away from anthology stories and holiday specials, which made it more difficult because so many of them aren't good or I haven't seen them. I also stuck with one per franchise (per category). I offer no explanations other than what is reflected of my childhood (for the most part).

Disney films:
1. Beauty and the Beast
2. Cinderella
3. Mary Poppins
4. Mulan
5. Aladdin

Pixar:
1. Toy Story
2. A Bug's Life
3. Wall-E
4. Finding Dory
5. The Incredibles

Direct-to-Video:
1. Return of Jafar
2. Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
3. Mulan II
4. Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
5. 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure

Some honorable mentions include Lilo & Stitch, The Princess and the Frog, Ratatouille, The Emperor's New Groove/Kronk's New Groove. Don't see your favorite(s) on here? Well I did say it was hard with there being so many of them.

Standards and Expectations

Alpha and Omega: The Big Fureeze, while a dumb title, was still better than the last one. It was supposed to be released before the last one, so this was a gamble since the last one sucked so bad. It didn't need to lower our standards - this one was fine. I don't know why we needed another Christmas one, but here it is anyway. There was a lot of action, and it brought back characters from the first sequel movie that started this series of low-budget spin-offs (though we're so far removed from it in time that I can barely remember, and I really don't have time to rewatch them).

Legends of the Hidden Temple the Movie was pretty good too. I love how they got Kirk Fogg and Dee Bradley Baker to reprise their roles. My only complaint is that the human Olmec looks more like a Temple Guard than the actual Temple Guards in this movie. I didn't even mind the child acting. The set for the temple was amazing - the Silver Monkey and the Steps of Knowledge looked identical to the show. The CG-colored animals were interesting, but the Purple Parrot crashed into the barrier trying to escape; I can't help but think that it's a reference to their team having the least wins, given how smart the script is. It had problems, but I'd give it an 8 out of 10; better than the Goosebumps movie, which I'd give a 7.

Teen Titans Go! was able to use the Happy Birthday song, finally. They didn't reference that fact; they just sang it three times. The Dino Supercharge Christmas clipshow wasn't as good as last year's because they only highlighted four Rangers. Not all of the Rangers showed up unmorphed, either. The acting was on point, however. Thanks to the Hetalia commentary, I now know that Taliesin took over the role of Britain from Scott Freeman. I didn't even notice. As always, Eric Vale was the best part of the commentary and called out Taliesin for being too busy to appear.

Oreo now has its candy in ball form. The Bagel Bite Dogs were good but the hot dogs kept falling out. Also I'm sorry that the previous post's title lacked originality. I honestly didn't have a clever title to connect all the subject matter.

Some Stuff

Since I've been unsuccessful at Taco Bell, I went to Burger King for breakfast instead. This is what you've made me do, Taco Bell. I swore never to get breakfast at Burger King, but you drove me to it. I got the Eggnormous Burrito, which has everything the AM Crunchwrap has but tastes slightly different (and is messier since it's a burrito). It's only for a limited time, but I'm really not interested in anything else on the menu. It wasn't that bad, but I would've rather had a cheeseburger. Or actual Taco Bell breakfast. Or a safe walking route between work and the McDonald's down the road. I also snagged an Oreo Big Crunch Bar at work. It's pretty much a cookies and creme candy bar inside of a milk chocolate bar. I bought some Damak as a stocking stuffer, and that's probably going to taste exactly like it looks (I hope). And we started selling Krackle again. Did you know Bagel Bites sell pigs-in-a-blanket now? That's kind of weird, but I have to try it.

Hetalia season 6 didn't have outtakes, but it had commentary. Still no references to Frozen or Kickassia, though (even though Eric Vale has interacted with Doug before). The Halloween OVA had some copyright-friendly costumes and some not, so how did they decide? America was wearing an orange suit, but he really should've been David S. Pumpkins since that's a popular costume (I don't know who that is but I know it's a thing).

My Larxene video didn't get any views in the two weeks since I uploaded it. Xehanort's got three. I guess people don't care or don't like Larxene. I hope they like my December video. I ended up going from a shortage to an abundance of Critical Role holiday fan art.