It’s Eureka! The Anime! The Eurekanime!
Eureka‘s final Christmas special aired this past Tuesda, but I’m just now finding out there was both a Rankin-Bass stop-motion animation sequence and an anime-style animation sequence. Sure, Community did the Rankin-Bass thing with their Christmas episode last year, and actually did their own anime sequence a little over a week ago, but I’m not going to hold it against Eureka, because 1) I don’t watch the show and have no concept of it, which makes it difficult to mock and 2) Eureka‘s anime sequence is a lot, lot better than Community‘s anime sequence. So bully for them.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.