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Dating Site Guy: We haven't had women contacting us, 'Hey, I met this guy on your site and he was a creep, and this and that happened' —

True — I just meant sentimentally.

Please tell me these reviews are coming back! The last season is set to air this year…

I really don't think she's dead or dying. He could have choked up because his own mother died recently and will be missing important events in her kids'/grandkids' lives.

What is the point of remaking this? And so soon? I could see if the original was in a foreign language, or if understanding it required a deep understanding of British culture, but neither is the case. What a waste of time.

I wonder if Gaby Hoffman was wearing a merkin, and if so, how much time is devoted to merkins in a typical special effects makeup/hairstyling class. *ponders*

Jon: "Well, here's a couple of sacks…" *produces two pet-sized burlap sacks out of nowhere*

Heh, I like the idea of the probation worker having a power — it had never occurred to me. But if he does have one, I hope it isn't invisibility, because that will always be Simon's.

Without fail, just thinking of Blackadder's completely sincere last line makes me sad and happy at the same time. "Good luck, everyone."

The best previous-episode callback is, of course, the turtle. I really hope he continues to randomly involve turtles in future episodes.

I love all the earnest, low-rent actors the show uses. "I am so sad. I am so sad. I am SO sad. I am so sad… [terrible fake crying]"

-I recently moved to Toronto, and I still get a kick out of hearing "Next stop: Degrassi Street" on the Gerrard streetcar. Hee!

My sisters and I still regularly accuse one another of having jam hands.

I concur 100% with 1, 3, and 4 (and don't really have an opinion on number 2). There also needs to be less navel-gazing in general. Almost every episode these days features yet another gratuitous speech about why the Doctor is awesome/tragic/going to save the day (or why the companion is just Super Special). It's

I nominate Damien Molony, preferably with his natural accent.

Another possibility for how Blake and Tim found out about the party: the documentary crew told them and made sure they showed up. Unlike in We Can Be Heroes (which featured a narrator), the documentary concept was really downplayed here, so it was pretty jarring when Jen interacted with one of the cameras in Episode 9.

You should just get a van. With a van, it's like you've got an MBA, but you've also got a fucking van. You're not just a man anymore - you are a man with a van. You get a van, Jez, we could be men with ven.

*points* "Onnnn YOUR side."

Yeah, the romance didn't do anything for me either. We knew nothing about this woman outside of her bland, vaguely father-daughter-ish relationship with FDR. There was no reason to make her the central character or give her that annoyingly whimsical voiceover (which is thankfully absent from the most interesting