SPIN

May 25, 2012 – Every year around this time you start to hear critics and bloggers complaining about the surfeit of Hollywood sequels and the industry's overall lack of originality. (This is probably the seventh consecutive Year of the Sequel.) But it's time to simply accept their inevitability and recognize the standouts while avoiding the failures.

May 23, 2012 – In the final episode of Bob's Burgers' second season, Bob's dreams of becoming a celebrity chef with a recurring segment on the morning show Get On Up are compromised when he's overshadowed by a scenery-chomping — and burger-chomping — sidekick: Gene in a Sasquatch mask that he procured in return for pop-and-lock lessons.

May 15, 2012 – In the penultimate episode of Bob's Burger's second season features unchecked hormones, unchecked flatulence, and a terrifying glimpse into Tina's dark side as she falls in with bad-seed new student Tammy Larson (Jenny Slate), who knows that the way to Jimmy Jr's. affections involves pilfered margarita mix and good old-fashioned manipulation. Meanwhile, Bob gets hooked on the latest entertainment craze, extreme patty-caking.

May 7, 2012 – After Bob's Burgers gets rightfully panned by local newspaper food critic the Moody Foodie (voiced by our own Patton Oswalt), the kids snap into crisis-PR mode.

May 7, 2012 – To see Julia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO's hope-it-stays-hysterical Veep is to think: How did they know? How did they — first Larry David, then the rest of Team Seinfeld — know that she was so funny? And HOW she was so funny, with her knack for making genuinely strange women seem perfectly normal? There's little evidence of it on her brief Saturday Night Live tenure.

May 2, 2012 – Back in 2008, when Marvel Studios began the process of building, movie-by-movie, towards the ultimate superhero team-up with the first Iron Man, there was this growing sense of "Can they actually pull this off?" Well, they have. Oh man, have they ever. While the equally anticipated The Dark Knight Rises may prove to be the meatier comic book offering this summer, there is absolutely no way that it's more fun.