Completely agree.

Monk meets Columbo would have been hilarious.

They did explain it, briefly; Monk says something about how she got back together with her ex and moved to be with him.

I guess milk is also a metaphor for gay. As are heights and germs and spiders and everything else.

Yes. It's better to end a show early and then beat it into the ground over decades by doing interminable schmaltzy, preachy Christmas specials year after year after year. :rolleyes

Holy crap!

Agreed. My husband and I had as much fun watching it as our young kids did; it was clever and sharp and funny without having jokes we didn't want to explain.

There is one genuinely funny bit in this movie that was inexplicably deleted (my husband, bless him, loves this film so we have the DVD with all the extra bits). In it, Ned Beatty is talking to his daughter, who is about to go out dancing. He gives her a little speech about how she's about to meet a lot of young men…

"How successful would even the funniest comedy be if audiences were legally forbidden from laughing in public? Would you want to pluck down ten bucks to see the new Judd Apatow laugher if there were a chance you'd be arrested, hauled off to jail, and publicly humiliated for shamelessly pleasuring your funny bone in…

Hilarious. You make a high-handed statement about what "REAL" women look like, and then when told by REAL women that what you've said is offensive and what it implies, you tell us we're wrong instead of stopping for two seconds and thinking, "Wow, maybe what I said *is* offensive. I didn't realize that by claiming…

But we naturally slim, not-so-curvy women are ugly, right?

…and those who don't starve themselves but are naturally thin and small-breasted would be better served to see less men claiming we look and are "unhealthy" and acting like the idea that large breasts are attractive to men is some novel concept women need to be taught, instead of something hammered into us from early…

THANK YOU. My measurements are the same as yours, and I see red every time somebody pulls out that "Real women have curves" bullshit and act like that's supposed to be a wonderful, empowering thing to say. Yes, it is indeed so "empowering" to be constantly dismissed and to search fruitlessly for tops or dresses that…

I get your point—I'm not at all a fan of parents wanting to be "friends" with their kids and I do not consider myself to be a "friend" to my own young daughters—but Haley isn't a kid anymore; you can't really call it her "upbringing" when she's now twenty-one.

Agreed. I think adults tend to have better things to do than pay attention to or care about awards like these, much less vote for them, so the voting pool ends up being basically teenagers and fan club members.