The following post is merely a test to see if YouTube embeds don’t appear on posts that were created in WordPress’s classic editor, before I post this week’s Couch Avocados header. (Yep, it turns out that they fail to appear on posts like this one, which I created in the classic editor.)
Since earlier this week, WordPress’s no-longer-reliable block editor—which I always used for writing and editing Couch Avocados posts—doesn’t work anymore for people like me who prefer to edit their posts on Firefox (or Chrome) on their laptops.
I refuse to edit my posts on the mobile version of WordPress. I tried it once. It fucking sucked. A smartphone is not equipped for writing and revising long-form blog posts, especially the complicated way I write and revise them. (I go back and forth between TextEdit, which is where I first write my posts, and WordPress when I work on a post. A smartphone does not allow me to do that shit.)
I can’t even create any new posts on WordPress on my laptop anymore because I keep getting an annoying “The editor has encountered an unexpected error” message from WordPress. Starting this week, I have to go to my phone and create them there instead. I fucking hate that.
The following is also a revised version of a capsule review I posted on my Serializd account on September 21, 2025. (Serializd always makes a ton of factual mistakes. It mislabeled “Fartbreak Hotel” as a seventh-season episode. It’s not. It comes from, as the American Dad! Wiki and IMDb point out, the sixth season.)
***
I’ve never seen Somewhere in Time. But when I was a kid, I saw a TV special about time travel flicks like the 1960 version of The Time Machine and Time After Time. It spoiled the entirety of Somewhere in Time in a five-minute segment about that movie and Christopher Reeve’s low-budget method of time travel, so I totally understood what 2011’s “Fartbreak Hotel,” which I watched for the first time ever on September 21, 2025 on Hulu, was parodying. It was mostly Somewhere in Time, which was never mentioned by TV critics like the critic at the now-defunct TV Squad, who mentioned Hot Tub Time Machine and Back to the Future instead of Somewhere in Time, and Rowan Kaiser at the A.V. Club when they reviewed this episode back in 2011.
I enjoyed every minute of Steve’s time travel B-story. It’s better than Francine and Roger’s A-story at the concrete sellers convention.
Also, Héctor Elizondo voices himself, makes fun of his concierge role in Pretty Woman, and fucking steals this episode with lines like “It’s been 10 years and three more Garry Marshall movies” and “I’ve played a concierge in over 400 movies and TV pilots. Acting pays the bills so I can pursue my true passion: concierging.”
Rewatch Elizondo’s 25-second “Who will hug Baby Héctor?” scene here.