I think she's at least self-aware enough to go along with the joke, just as Christa Miller seems to be.  Both of them have had a bit too much plastic surgery, but it says something about them that they are willing to have some fun at its expense too.

I had an emotional reaction to this episode, much like I did with the aforementioned "Southern Accents" episode, because I have been where both Travis and Laurie are.  There is nothing more frustrating than being totally right for the wrong person, and it seems rare for a show to invest in this kind of…

I'm between 35 and 40, and since I'm dead to the advertising world what with my full-time job and actual spending power for the first time in my life, I didn't watch either.

Yeah, I was thinking though about that episode where they had that band a couple of seasons ago with the larger front singer.  The little pan-European accent guy Olivier or whatever his name was acted so indignantly about having to stoop to dressing someone with actual three-dimensional proportions.  They didn't seem…

Unless I somehow missed it, and I admit that fast-forward through a lot of the filler parts of this show like the Loreal commercial, I'm happy that none of the designers had the perfunctory meltdown over dressing a non-size 0 six foot woman for once.  It seems like in every season when presented with a non-model, at…

This is all just a load of rich… creamery… butter…

@eric827:disqus yeah, I'm struggling to remember an episode where Claire looked bad, but then again, I have far from an encyclopedic knowledge of that show.

@eric827:disqus yeah, I'm struggling to remember an episode where Claire looked bad, but then again, I have far from an encyclopedic knowledge of that show.

@avclub-33beffd09a1b020d1187c6b4b264014a:disqus , I don't think I ever said it was "funny," but I do feel like it was heartwarming and often good TV in first few seasons.  There was something really comforting about Cosby in the first few years that appealed to me, and lots of America, largely because the center held…

What I really liked about Cosby (man, I full of comments this morning—damn you, coffee) was that it was a nice warm alternative to the 70's era issues-driven comedies like "All in the Family" and "MASH."  It presented a wonderfully loving, stable, upwardly mobile black family with a strong parent center that kept the…

Given that this show literally has a pedestal to itself built on awards as if it were the only choice given other than "[ ] CERTAIN DEATH" on the form, I feel like your grade is far too charitable for this episode.  While I agree with your later statement that the TV universe is big enough for a half hour bland cocoa…

Given that this show literally has a pedestal to itself built on awards as if it were the only choice given other than "[ ] CERTAIN DEATH" on the form, I feel like your grade is far too charitable for this episode.  While I agree with your later statement that the TV universe is big enough for a half hour bland cocoa…

I think I have railed against the mechanical humor of this show enough to just shake my head now and wonder why, why do I keep watching?  It's like they fed a computer called the HumorTron 3000 [tm] purchased on eBay from an evil scientist a series of sitcom plot lines and it spat back this script on a dot-matrix…

That the NY Post couldn't summon up a pun on this one, an organization that actually pays someone for creating such soul and society-crushing headlines as "Cloak and Shag Her" and "In the Line of Booty" for the Petraeus scandal, should say something.  If I actually thought they were a serious news organization, I…

Well, ABC is nudging me along further along the path of "reasons I should drop cable."  Thanks, I guess.

I agree.  I ranted about this topic recently on another MF episode (and don't feel the need to re-rant, lest the MF writers are somehow studiously taking notes from some guy on the AV Club's thoughts).  It strikes me as lazy writing to give that child something to do.  In a universe where I give the MF writers FAR too…

Maybe because I usually down an entire bottle of white wine whilst watching "Cougar Town" because, well, enabling, I enjoyed this episode.  I am also kinda buzzed right now, so I don't expect to make sense, or even complete sentences, but it was nice to finally see Tom accepted.  Yeah, he's a loveable loser, but so…

Dammit.  Comment FAIL.  I live right beside Columbia U, so it's frequently on my mind.

Did I mention I also hated the character of Michelle on Full House?  Maybe I'm just dead inside, but I just dislike "kids say the darndest things!" conceit in sitcoms because it's tired, and it seems to promote the notion that children can get away with anything so long as they are somewhat cute about it.  Is that…

If my niece, who's the same age, acted like that, my sister would end it RIGHT THEN.  Because my niece isn't some poorly drawn precocious sitcom kid cipher, however, she acts like a kid and plays with dolls, gets upset when she's tired, and gets excited by kid shows and shiny things.  Instead of embracing the genuine…