best line?
"oh sure, just ask the black guy, 'cause we all know each other. pete, could you tell a bald eagle to stop scaring me at zoos?"

automatic A
for any episode where liz speaks german.

yeah, that was not at all a 5-year-old tantrum, that was a hilariously wtf moment. just believable enough to make me laugh without rolling my eyes.

refreshment
this episode felt like more of a return to the form that SS does so well (comic insensitivity). the majority of the current season has been disappointing. though i did love the children's show episode. "this book is called, 'why don't necks have bone going all around them?' there's so much important…

so bad it's good.

if memory serves…
the reason readership (and comment-writing) dropped off during the regular avclub coverage of the show was that smart people (avclub readers being smarter than average) found the show too dumb, and stopped watching it or caring about it. that's sure what happened to me. i was very surprised to read…

troi had tons of growth. granted, that's anchored more by how abysmally she started than what she ended up as. by the end, she was wearing a regular uniform instead of weird red carpet outfits, she was completely in control of her empathy, and they even made several references to actual, useful, professional…

true, but there was also the comparison in hip-shape between her and Salma Hayek.

banter!

i thought i heard her say that she spilled her drink and they wouldn't give her a refund (or a refill), and then more incomprehensible stuff.

so very tired…
they are really stepping up the blatant advertising now, aren't they! it's driving me more crazy than usual, especially how everything "Collier" says sounds like he's reading it directly off cue cards held up by soullessly overeager marketing interns.

well, because of these comments i just checked out the rifftrax of VI… only twenty minutes in, but so far it's terrible! i'd much rather just be watching the movie itself. and i say this as a serious devotee of mst3k. maybe the whole concept only works with movies that are unambiguously bad.

hm, are the reader ratings broken?

i am not the target demo.
i basically decided who should win (in PR and in life) by their reactions to the announcement of the challenge and to the kiddie models skipping onto the runway. oh, and especially the part where the little girls each announced which designer they were paired with. how could you not smile…

damn you, VanDerWerff!
you did it again. you find some new way to describe the simpsons episode as if it were magically so much better than the current running average that it would totally be worth watching. and you're so wrong, every time, but i keep falling for it!

lisa: "poor predictable bart. always chooses rock."
bart: "good ol' rock! nothing beats that!"

whiskey's sole purpose was to remain behind to guide anyone who came to safe haven, so i had assumed she had a way to clear the place of intruders without dying. but i guess she'd programmed herself to give up her mission if the dollhouse had been breached.

if i recall correctly, topher kinda explained butchers in epitaph one. he was muttering to himself something like, "what would happen if you answer the phone, and suddenly you're programmed to kill everyone who didn't answer the phone?" he then poignantly made adelle promise never to answer the phone.

Topher!
Topher has chest hair! This makes me happy.

star trek cons are always so simplistic, and then they're way too proud of themselves. i'd much rather listen to whatever geordi makes up.