The show seems to have turned them into a stereotypical 1950's couple, except Bernadette is the stern/abusive breadwinner, and Howard is the frivolous and fretful housewife. Gender-swapping unhealthy relationship roles isn't clever, it's just creepy; and I would prefer not to see it on TV in 2014.

I'm always blown away by how many WWI (and WWII) graves there are in cemeteries in small towns in BC. For a town with only a few thousand people to have hundreds of graves… I can't imagine what it would have been like to live through that time.

Maybe? Although I'm not sure that explains how she can gank all these dead people. I'm assuming she'll be this season's main badguy… Either way she's super creepy; I dislike her appearance immensely.

I know I'm crazy late, but as a lingophile, I have to put in that I've always referred to the phase of the game where you take turns putting cards down to make 31 as pegging as well. If you win during this phase, it's known as 'pegging in'. West Coast and/or Canadian regional dialect maybe?

Yeah, I just saw the trailer at the end of the episode a few moments ago and rolled my eyes pretty hard.

I had a long period of recovery where I felt like a failure as a feminist and, by extension, a woman because of how much I'd deluded myself into putting up with due to shared commitments, home-ownership, financial stability, etc. The brain's ability to rationalize bullshit is breathtaking.

It's all about the hand-mouth coordination.

Thanks. At least I learned a lot from it. And I am no longer judgmental of women who find themselves in similar or much worse abusive relationships. I never thought something like that could happen to me, and it took me a long time to realize/admit that it had.

Yeah, I'm thinking more like rug burn…

Mostly the dick. I'm sure the mattress wouldn't suffer too greatly…

Truth.

I'm trying not to thing about what it would look like afterwards…

Oh yeah, a couple years ago. I had to flee and leave everything. But it was worth it to get myself back. And now I have a way cooler boyfriend and a new career. Woot!

It's flautist, although flutist is also commonly accepted.

I can sort of identify with the woman in the first letter. I was with a super controlling and with-holding jerk for some time and it really fucks with your head. Because it happens really slowly over time, it's easy to feel like the problem is you and not him.

OMG, I have never actually looked up what that is before, although I have been wondering since 1995. I just wrinkled my own brain!

Although that page doesn't explicitly source the Glover thing, it does say it. And if it's on the internet, it's true!

http://www.masslive.com/ent…

Not even a little bit. My first reaction was "Yahoo is TV now?" The world is a confusing place.

I think size is a factor too, not just rural vs. urban. Even if it is rural, once you get over a couple thousand, the anonymity sets in and people start acting badly because they can get away with it. There is much more social accountability in small communities. When there are limited areas of communal space (eg. two…