Exactly. It was the kind of death the Soviet secret service would give some enemy of the state in the early 1980s—shot in a dingy basement and taken away.

I like how for a second I thought Nina's death was just another dream sequence, until the director made it clear it wasn't by a lingering shot as the blood started to flow, then some dude comes in to check her pulse, mark a clipboard and get a signature, and the guards wrap up her limp body and take it away. Yep. …

Note to The Big Bang Theory: you don’t have to make gay jokes about Raj.

Life in Pieces is doing Modern Family better than Modern Family does Modern Family.

Let the exasperated Joel McHale character call Christopher Etc's character McLovin as a joke at some point and I'll watch this series forever.

Has Billy always had a problem with the bottle and I'm just noticing it this season? If so, it's because the years between seasons fly by and memories fly out.

Anyone mention yet that it was a bullwhip? A Mapplethorpe reference?

Mrs. Monarch? She's got a doctorate and he has an article. Jeez.

That whole concept is an unexpected evil that only the sickest mind could contemplate, let alone execute. Mr. St. Cloud, you masterful sick f*ck.

Shut up and stop complaining or they'll stop making any more just to spite us!

I notice the costumers pulled the big purse out of Seinfeld's storage unit.

She was big then, with a large price. A dump truck of money backing up in your driveway is hard to resist.

Mitch Hedberg, sure. But add Bill Hicks. Beloved by Interweb fanboyz, but he's just so incredibly mediocre in my book.

We need a single camera sitcom that's brilliantly written and stars Eliza Coupe, Jenny Slate and Zoe Lister Jones. Let them sit around and riff on each other. I'd watch the living hell out of that.

perfect Night Court joke

So I watched this on demand and all the commercials were random NBC promos. Which tells me nobody's watching it because no company wants to buys ads on it.

When I was a sous chef, our chef told our bartender that sour cream came from pigs. She was skeptical, but he spent the whole night convincing her. He gave me a head's up, so once when she was dropping an order she said, "where does sour cream come from?" And without a beat I said "pigs" and kept on working.

I was actually writing something similar to your fifth graf in my head while I was clicking on this article. I mean, random floor sweepings can occasionally make a good caserole, but most of the time, no.

No, not if she's actually, you know, good.

Yeah, Amy? I know it's your show, but you don't have to put your friends on it to give them exposure. If she ain't gonna happen, well, she ain't gonna happen.