Yeah, it was formulaic, but so was I Love Lucy. If a formula works, nothing wrong with that. One great thing about HI and Everybody Loves Raymond was that the show focused on the adults, not the kids. They were there, but just barely.

Living to be 90 while chowing down on soy burgers and bean sprouts - I think that would be the equivalent of hell.

Oh, for God's sake. Another conspiracy.

I think the reason that people think that the intelligent are social klutzes is that the klutzes stand out from the pack, whereas the intelligent people who are socially at ease do not. Then again, there's an envy factor too - people like to think that jocks are all dumb, that smart guys are social doofuses, that hot…