"You guys wanna listen to some vinyl?" Impressions: Apparently the harpy woman's schtick is to be the show's love interest. Uh, okay. That makes slightly more sense than the incomprehensible story of the episode about a serial bomber tengu pacifist Buddhist with magical magnet powers setting up Rube Goldberg Pythagoras Switch traps just to […]
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