1. I think at one point we saw a photo of Frank with Bill Clinton.

I mean, the title of the show is literally "something that takes a lot of patient effort to build, but is destined to collapse on a moment's notice."

But going to war with the 12 Clans after it was Azgeda that bombed Mount Weather would be like if after 9/11 the US had just… oh, wait a minute, I see what the writers are doing there

I agree with that (and also, 4 years is the length of a presidential term).

The fact that we've been seeing the Polis tower all season, and been wondering "where did the grounders get the resources to build something like that?"… and we've known about the 13th station since season 1… yet we never made the connection until now—very sneaky, writers.

Oh yeah.

The verb for 'die' is "wan op", which seems to be from "wind up". It gets shortened to "wan" in the compound "wanheda", I guess.

This is exactly the twist ending of a recent popular novel.

I really like Curtains, but David Hyde Pierce's terrible fake Boston accent always makes me wince.

Let's be grateful this didn't include the "Beethoven Day" song from the 1998 Broadway revival of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".

This makes perfect sense. Ending a declarative sentence with a period is the standard norm for formal writing. *Not* conforming to the standard always makes it possible to come across as more informal and thus more authentic, more laid-back, and more friendly.

The channel that airs Brooklyn Nine-Nine in Toronto has The Mindy Project on right before it. Today's episode of The Mindy Project was a rerun of the episode where Mindy gives birth on the subway. So on this episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, when Terry is stuck on the subway and there's an announcement that the subway is…

Just make sure you have a full glass of milk first.

Musical theater is the only worthwhile form of drama. If I want to watch people *talking* at each other all day I can do that at the post office.

Not even! The Atlas, based on data from the '90s, found tons of gross regional accents. (I mean, not, uh, gross accents, but you know what I mean.) The Northern Cities accent stretches from Utica NY to Milwaukee WI, basically identical, with only a brief interruption at Erie PA. But the research done in the past…

Okay so here's the deal. About 10 years ago the Atlas of North American English came out, the first full-scale in-depth nationwide survey of regional accents. It was based on data collected in the mid-'90s, and seemed to show that regional accents were becoming more strongly differentiated. So in the mid-2000s, the…

"Inexplicably"?

David Hyde Pierce won a Tony for playing a Boston cop in Curtains, but his fake accent is so terrible it gives me the twitches every time I listen to the cast recording.

Jake and Charles going undercover at an art gallery while investigating an insurance-fraud case turned the episode briefly into a goofy White Collar variant.

Sadie's voice actress is half of Garfunkel & Oates!