Someone has done a masterful job of keeping the secret of the ooze from Michael Bay.

"I was suddenly forced to come to terms with the idea that maybe what was
bothering me wasn’t the farm; maybe it was the characters themselves."

IT CAN DRIVE BECAUSE IT'S 16! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh wait, it's a TV show. TV Shows aren't people. OH IT GET IT, IT'S LIKE AN OPPOSITE JOKE!

Is it just me, or did this show end on same big reveal in two out of the last three episodes: Monica wants custody. That last moment might've stung this week if she wasn't following through on the exact thing she said she was going to do.

For reasons I can't quite to put my finger on, this all seems terrible.

This was an excellent VSE, and 33 pretty much ensured that I would do nothing but watch BSG for the last three weeks of 2009. I barely slept in that time.

No, Zack Handlen. No. No. No. No. No. No. No!

Also, it's disappointing, because it seems like there are two or three choices this show could make that would turn it into a very good to great pay-cable comedy. The pieces are there, and this program can't put them together.

"It doesn’t make any sense. Nothing makes any goddamn sense in this
episode. It’s just a random collection of half-assed scenes, where the
show veers between metaphor and straightforwardness wildly, characters’
motivations are unclear at best, and the plot only exists to string a
few scenes together. I don’t care…

I think this has been discussed elsewhere in this thread, but my impression of the scene is that Grama's stake in this is not the privilege of beating up Matt Damon (although that would be quite a prize). I figure if Grama wanted to beat up Matt Damon in this movie, nothing is really stopping him. Grama wants Damon to…

Another aspect of this hand that seems off to me is Malkovich's all-in river bet. If he read Damon as playing a draw, then he knows he isn't getting a call and that this bet has no value. In fact, the most likely scenario in which Damon would call that bet is if he made his hand on the flop. So, Malkovich is making a…

Todd, friendly advice in response to your pre-amble here: Don't review comedies. It's your weakness. Your strength is dramas, particularly TVClub Classic dramas. You know EXACTLY what to say about Deadwood. Ditto on The Sopranos. After I read a woefully off review of Luck in the New York Times, I saw that you…

I just re-watched all of Deadwood, and Todd is right. Season 2 is basically perfect and probably the greatest season of any TV show. As a whole, I like Deadwood better than The Sopranos and would rate it ahead of everything but The Wire.

Really, Kenny?

Wish I'd read the whole list before commenting, because once again, given the popularity of the Simpsons at the time, it doesn't seem all that surprising. Also, it wasn't a bad record, especially for kids and I was one of those when this came out.

Ditto for the Chris Gaines album. It's not like people didn't know it was Garth Brooks. And it's not like "Garth Brooks Yodels" wouldn't have sold 2 million records at that time. I guess the "surprise" factor is only applied in relation to quality?

I don't think it can be a surprise that 1 million record purchasers wanted to know what the hell Axl Rose spent 20 years working on.

"Very Special Episode" is starting to feel like: "The Only Episode I've Seen of This."

I also enjoyed Hocus Pocus. And it's been a long time since I read it, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't contain direct references to any other Vonnegut books or characters.

Good review! Now I won't have to experience this garbage for myself. Todd always whines about the difficulty of assigning grades to pilots. I guess this one did the job for him…