"He’s like a Broadway mainstay going black box"

"or substitute $5 olive oil for something that costs $75 a bottle."

"I don't think its unfair to say that a speed run should involve a run. Actually going through a game."

why not? where do you draw the line?

"a groaner that might have been cooked up after a late-night bull session between Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan."

drumming: a lot more work than guitar. it's why the drummer's usually the last one to get fat but the first one to have a serious amphetamine problem.

notably not lampshaded: complete un-commented-upon absence of Other Asian (sorry, Harry Shum, apparently we hardly knew ye).

I *thought* my chili had a lil' extra sumthin' in it last Friday.

my takeaway from this article's screen grabs is that ryan gosling sure likes stuff on fire.

I'm afraid you must have fallen victim to a telephone prankster. I made contact with the "Jerk Store" myself, and ascertained that not only do they have an ample supply of me, they expect to be well-supplied with me for the foreseeable future.

"There’s a great phrase for snappy comebacks you only think of hours after the fact: staircase wit."

seriously, though, Skye shooting the crap out of Ward was the highlight of this one. I'm only moderately ashamed to admit I was yelling at the TV for her to shoot him some more.

Agent Destiny McGutshot

do I see…double layers of horizontal stripes?

Erm. I wasn't complaining about anything? So I don't understand your complaints about my non-existent complaints. I was agreeing with Domino.

yeah, the show kinda bent over backwards to justify it, really, to the extent of the scene starting with the guy hiding his ring. he wasn't at all reluctant to give up the information, he just wanted the quid pro quo.

I liked how the mythical lost city was in the Bermuda triangle…but it was just a complete coincidence, that's such a great unnecessary wrinkle to throw in there, and Coulson sold it nicely.

"cast Reyes as a Patusan native and heir to the title of “The Last Electric Knight,”"

No…no, I think posting an internet comment about it wins.

well, I mean, you can go all the way back to Father Ted, if you want. British (OK, Irish) TV comedy writers tend to write a lot of TV comedies in the same general vein as the ones they did before, it's what they do. I mean, you can call it a retread if you want, but…it's more of a tradition…