"He's trying to make my sister poop!" "Girl pooper, girl pooper!" has to be one of the most disturbing things you could hear someone yelling.

There's something. . .odd, and a little painful about people trying to make some kind of (internal) sense about Ginsberg cutting off his nipple. The point is that it makes perfect sense to him, and no sense whatsoever to anyone else. Poor Peggy. Also, Stan more and more looks like the best man in the office, not…

I didn't particularly think Roger's reaction at the end had to do with Margaret/Marigold sleeping with Commune Dude. I thought it was very much about the idea that Margaret's failure as a mother, in this particular way, (public, complete abandonment versus booze and relatively discreet affairs), was forcing Roger to…

Yeah, there was definitely a beat of Pete being at the least disconcerted that his father-in-law had died and that he didn't know, that a pretty huge thing had happened to Trudy that he didn't know of. If nothing else, Pete is not someone who lets go of things, and I'm sure on some level that does indeed include…

I'm still kind of embarrassed by how much I genuinely love the scene when she groans that Ryan Gosling's real-life chest looks photoshopped.

I was surprised by how genuinely frustrated I felt on Sue's behalf, as all the other Hecks are mucking around in problems of their own making. (I may have issues!). It was nice to see Frankie actually acknowledge the positives of Sue's enthusiasm and optimism instead of treating it like a burden, but I think I still…

Even by tv-sitcom standards, Kenny looked waaaaay too old to be an incoming college freshman.

I really disliked Danny this episode, and didn't find the idea that he doesn't KNOW he's being creepy and manipulative justification. There's a point where that just doesn't fly (of course, I think that about 75% of romantic comedies.) I really hope the inevitable reunion isn't too soon.

Yeah, that's what felt gross to me. She was literally built to be "perfect" (with no opinions or flaws or anything real) and then to be killed off to get out of the way for Ted and Robin. A lot of Ted's ideas about romance and love were pretty screwed up, and once in awhile the show would press against that a little…

We're just interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.

He's definitely old enough to know you don't grow eggs.

That was odd. I wonder if it would have worked any better if Lisa were around, since I'm sure her lack of Little Miss Chatswin qualities are another sore spot between her and Sheila.

I will never get tired of seeing them crack each other up and then hug. Also, I would totally watch "Stephen" and Biscuit and the one-eyed prostitute ride the rails.

Definitely don't rely on him to teach you how hurricanes work.

The sheriff character is really bugging me—not as a character, but as a device. They hung a bit of a lampshade on it when Molly at least got a line about "drifters" being ridiculous and dated, but that really does feel like a very "outside" making fun of the culture/community/whathaveyou, as opposed to smaller…

Yeah, I kind of doubt he's suddenly realized all the ways the show was sexist and the characters incredibly unlikable, which would mostly be true if they weren't "journalists." (Considering his portrayal of women seems to have been going downhill for about ten years, I'm not sure what kind of learning curve he's got…

Wow, do you remember when? Because the portrayal ick of not!Kristen Chenoweth constantly being humiliated and Rick Tahoe/Rick Cleveland being a cartoon asshole, that was like watch the most embarrassing Mary Sue self-insert ever, if your average 12 year old had a huge budget and an hour of primetime.

It doesn't even make any good anagrams. Orca Jell Or, indeed. That's no way to incite terror in the masses!

Seriously, I was almost reduced to rooting for Emma to just off and start a splinter sect, because she's the closest thing to competent the show has yet to produce. No wonder she had to die.

I was almost expecting a really ham-fisted Abraham and Isaac reference in the church scene, and then I realized the show (and Joe) don't even have that minimum knowledge of what the fuck they are doing. I know I keep saying this, but Joe is as shit at brainwashing/propaganda/influence as he is at literary criticism,…