Ugh, no.  You fools.  Just because it's the smartest comedy on TV on a single Thursday evening doesn't mean it automatically wins a great review and an A grade.  "Smartest thing on TV at a given moment" is barely saying anything at all.

The synopsis doesn't sound much like gay coming of age…  More like straight up gay age.  Your girlfriend might be disappointed!

Saying you've never heard of Malin Akerman before implies you've never watched Childrens Hospital, far and away the best thing on TV this summer. For shame!

Joel. A thousand times Joel. Joel for-eva.

But does malk provide important minerals and essential inks?

While certainly not the worst classic Simpsons write-up of all time, it's definitely not good writing.  Notice how each paragraph is practically a separate, disconnected entity.  It reads as if Rabin jotted down several unrelated impressions while watching the episode, developed each one into a paragraph, and stuck…

"But then, if you missed every reference, I can't imagine why you would have stuck with the show this long in the first place."

"double dog breakup" too punny for you?

Sorry, I think it makes perfect sense to criticize a show that wastes incredibly high production values and multiple talented actors on a fascinating premise with very juvenile writing.

As the universe's sole fan of Lorena, I must speak up for her. Debbie is vastly more annoying. It's a bit hard to say whether she's also more annoying than any single member of the Mickens clan or the Hotshot clusterfuck, but she's also unquestionably the worst actor on the show, so I'm going to say C, Debbie, rather…

Meh. And I stand by my disappointed groan.

I am AGHAST that so many commenters here experienced enjoyment of the Andy 'n Terry sittin' in a tree storyline.

Right, but if he wanted to die, why did he want to do it that way? It just doesn't make sense.  It seemed to me that pretty much nothing he said or did in the garage made anything any better for Sam, and by making a potentially critical appointment for Sam and then not telling him about it, stood a good chance of…

Yes, that was bizarre. I also didn't follow (and didn't care nearly enough to try to figure out) why Tommy was so severely injured when it didn't really look that bad, and what exactly he meant to do by going to the pack garage as Sam in the first place. If it was to get Sam off hook and get himself killed at the same…

"Jewy and Val’s romance needs to get resolved at some point…"

MEH!
Maybe Futurama is one of those shows that's particularly prone to everyone loving and hating different selections of its episodes. I like my Futurama sentimentality either in very brief doses (Jurassic Bark) or very thoroughly earned (original series finale). For me this episode, at least on first watching, was…

All of the women are amazing, but for me Erinn Hayes (Lola Spratt) is the breakout star.

For my money, there's not a single dud among the first two seasons, but I particularly relished:

Not that you asked me, but I wish I could recommend shows for you. True Blood is really the only "drama"-oriented program that I watch. It seems a shame to me that most dramatic shows are either centered on premises I just don't care about (e.g., all crime procedurals) or are badly written/acted.

Not everything is for everyone, of course. But ordinarily my "this was supposed to be dramatic and intense but instead is just funny" sensitivity is pretty high, yet the ending sequence of this episode had me… enthralled. Really, it was quite striking.