This episode is one of the worst offenders in the 'Oh look, it's the 60s!' bit. The party … practically every moment of it is dripping with it. The man slapping the kid and the kid's dad making the kid apologize is the prime example, of course. But there are dozens more, like the pregnant woman drinking and smoking;…

There doesn't seem to be any such thing as 'following' shows any more. Apparently, you're supposed to check on the main TV Club page every now and then to see if the show you watch has been reviewed or not … assuming you can find something in the giant clusterfuck that is the main page.

Sheldon should have been killed a long time ago.

Bookjunk and Copper Boom - Thank you so much.

As far as I can tell, A+ no longer exists as a grade on AV Club.

You seem to think that it's extremely difficult for adults to become fluent in a second language.

Believe me, I'm not an outlier. I just happen to live in a multilingual society (India). An average educated Indian usually knows at least 3-4 languages. Maybe it's just that monolingual Americans (no offence meant) find the idea of people being fluent in more than one language unusual.

Um, yes - that was kind of my point: that the Kennishes aren't making the kind of effort that is required to learn a language fluently as an adult, even though they have had enough time to do it in.

It's difficult for adults to acquire native-level fluency in a new language, but it's hardly impossible to learn to speak (or sign) it fluently enough to have normal conversations in it, as long as the adults are motivated enough, and exposed enough to the language daily. The Kennishes live with a native ASL user…

While I would have liked to see Don in a long-term relationship with a smart independent woman like Rachel or Faye, I knew it was highly unlikely. Don likes to 'own' his women. Not in the literal sense, or even in any particularly negative sense. He likes to be the one in the position of power in his relationships…

YES for "Hermione and ANYONE BUT RON". I don't think Harry and Hermione would have ever worked, but I think that Ron and Hermione work even less. Seriously Hermione - couldn't you at least try to find someone who doesn't have the emotional range of a teaspoon?

Putting Laurie and Amy together was basically Alcott's way of tying up loose ends. Laurie had to marry a March girl, and Amy was the only one available; and she had no one else in particular to be paired off with. So somehow Laurie and Amy end up together.

It's the darkest timeline.

*Sigh* Yes. I just watched the episode where Rory first meets Marty … it's such an adorable meet-cute, you can tell that the writers intended Marty to be Rory's new beau. But somehow something went wrong. Maybe they decided that Rory needed a season free of boy drama? (If so, I agree with that.) Or maybe there were…

I had hopes for Berger and Carrie too … specifically, hopes that Berger would kill himself and Carrie in a murder-suicide thing.

Agree about Jo and Laurie. Professor Bhaer at least saw Jo as a person, not some unobtainable ideal. IMO, Jo was completely right in her rejection of Laurie, i.e. that he would grow to dislike her after the shine had worn off the marriage.

I can't imagine how anyone could think of Jess as a "sensitive bad boy" - sensitive to what? He's utterly disrespectful of everyone's feelings, including Rory's. Just because a person reads doesn't make them automatically "sensitive".

A thousand likes from a fellow Rory/Paris shipper.

I've read those recaps (well, the first two seasons anyway). They're nice and everything … but they're no substitute for TV Club's reviews. Not because of the quality of the reviews, but because I'll miss the community we'd built here in the comments section.

WHAT? 'IF it comes back'?!!! NOOOOOOO, it HAS to come back! We'll even be nice to Sims, if that's what it takes!