SEARCH PARTY

This week brought compelling evidence that “MAGA’’ may have just been a more efficient way of saying “my attorney’s getting arrested’’ this whole time, as word that FBI agents had raided the office of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen shook the Internet and, thus, lodged firmly in the President’s craw. Taking a cue from my precocious nephew from whom I must often snatch back my iPhone, Trump called the raid “a whole new level of unfairness,’’ and did that crossy-arm thing that makes his blazer flare up like the hood of a threatened lizard. (Of special note is Oliver Willis’s gripping fictionalized rendition of the events in real time.) I’m sure everything’s going to be fine.

TRAGIC KINGDOM

Disney, meanwhile, seems far less optimistic. This week it freaked out many a concerned fan with an uncharacteristically dark tweet that landed somewhere between vaguely disillusioned and straight-up goth: An image of a lifeless Pinocchio, collapsed in a corner and caught in a wooden stare, captioned: “When someone compliments you but you’re dead inside.’’ (Yikes!) Disney, having eaten or napped or something, has since deleted the tweet. It’s cool; we’ve all been there, Diz. I believe it was one of your highest grossing properties that once said, “Let it go.’’ 

INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Elsewhere in existentially troubled cartoons, “The Simpsons’’ attempted to respond (after a fashion) to a mounting chorus of criticism online surrounding the character of convenience store owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for his enduring role on the long-running animated series as little more than an offensive stereotype — a discussion brought to the fore by comedian Hari Kondabolu’s recent documentary, “The Problem With Apu.’’ In a scene that finds Marge reading to Lisa from a heavily sanitized children’s book, the two break the fourth wall to essentially inform the audience that “Some things will be dealt with at a later date,’’ “If at all.’’ The non-response went over about as well as Principal Skinner’s steamed hams.

TAKING DEBATE

Oh, “American Chopper’’ memes, there will come a day when I will look upon you and wonder what it was I ever saw; but that time is at least a few hours away still, so for now, I’m going to savor every slightly irritating last one of you. The runaway hit meme finds reality show stars Paul Teutul Sr. and Jr. engaged in the escalating stages of a neck-vein-straining, chair-throwing, screaming match. And while it couldn’t be less interesting to wonder what they were actually fighting about, the Internet has filled in the blanks with a range of passionate esoteric debates covering everything from the merits and pitfalls of anthropology to the status of the plums in the icebox to the value of the meme itself. They’re not here to make friends; they’re here to make cogent arguments supported by empirical evidence.

MICHAEL ANDOR BRODEUR

Michael Andor Brodeur can be reached at mbrodeur@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter: @MBrodeur.