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The best episodes were pretty obvious. Surprised society of the blind eye isn't a bit higher since it revealed the truth about fiddleford (even if he has partially vanished ever since).

My least favourite was Blendin's game. I liked the time travel aspect and delving a bit into Soos' past, but the Globnar was pretty boring (even if the tron reference was a nice touch) and I really don't like the time-baby. The infinitentiary has a nice design though, sort of Torus-y Mobius Strip-y thing.

Golf war was a bit weird, but for the sake of adding depth to Pacifica it worked well. Probably would have been less weird if the Lilliputtians (awful pun, nice reference) didn't have golf balls for heads. If they had been more akin to pixies or mice or something it might have been a bit more comfortable.

Little gift shop of horrors is supposed to be a tribute to horror anthologies like the twilight zone. The writers probably decided to go as outlandish as possible because they knew the stories weren't actually 'canon' as it were. Part of its pitfalls are that quite a lot of its jokes rely too much on parody and reference to other media, like the voyages of loinclothicles being a reference to the old half-claymation films like The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Mabel gluing forks to Stan's wrists being a reference to Edward scissorhands, Abaconings' entire plot being a parody of the film Awakenings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings). (I hope all those are on the trivia page for that episode, if not I'll be very annoyed and then add them myself).

Lastly, the love god. I agree, very out of place. I suppose it was supposed to make Mabel more responsible (each major character has at least one episode dedicated to developing them further, this and golf war were supposed to be Mabel's), but really it ended up as a bit of a mess. Stan's hot air balloon was a real saving grace at least.