Best line of the episode from Jay: "It made me feel like Ann-Margret in Bye Bye Birdie."

My freshman roommate was a born-again Southern Baptist from Birmingham, Alabama, who wanted to know — on the first night I met him — if I thought I was going to heaven or hell when I died. I said I wasn't sure, which provided the opening he needed to spend the entire semester judging me. Eventually I signed up for…

Any combination of Sue and Brad or Sue and Darren makes me smile. Three really fine actors. I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of Darren this season though.

I saw/heard Jessica Simpson do "Angels" on some TV special years ago. It was dreadful. You could tell she had no connection to the song at all. I love Robbie Williams and have wondered why he never really took off in the states. But then, Take That was also a one hit wonder here, too ("Back for Good"). His videos are…

Great episode. Eden Sher is such a splendid young actress. I loved when she was reading her essay aloud and stated that Hermione was one of her role models. I immediately knew she obviously meant the one from Harry Potter and I couldn't help but laugh. It was so Sue Heck.

Lily has become my favorite character on this show. I know there are plenty of people who think the chid can't act, but I don't agree. And in the "First Days" episode she was the only one who got me to laugh out loud. "YOU sound like a little girl!"

I don't understand this criticism at all. With few exceptions, sitcoms rarely delve into the economic realities of the American family. I mean, take Everybody Loves Raymond. We were expected to believe that Ray was supporting a family of five on a sports writer's salary. He wasn't an ESPN anchor. No second income from…

I'm trying to wrap my head around that statement. He can't sing and essentially got paid a lot of money "for trying." It's a movie, not an American Idol audition.

He is terrible, a fact that could have been corrected by simply casting an actor that can sing. But to be fair, it's a pretty badly cast movie anyway. Amanda Seyfried is the only one who belongs in it.

I have always found the movie version of Grease to be a wildly entertaining train wreck. However, Pierce Brosnan butchering ABBA's "SOS" in Mamma Mia is one of the cinematic crimes of the century. He mangles one of the group's loveliest songs. It's unforgivable, really.

I agree that Daryl is a more interesting character than Rick. I also like Carol. The writers have clumsily given her somewhat of a character arc (I'm sure it was purely by accident though). She was an abused wife who lost her husband and daughter to zombies, found herself attracted to Daryl and has learned survival…

I think all of them had the potential to be interesting, but the writers barely know how to construct a credible conversation or incorporate an interesting backstory. You can just see them in the writer's room sweating over ways to get these characters to have tense, chilling, well-orchestrated confrontations with…

I don't know… I'd have a beer with Jack Shepard or Meredith Grey. Both of them are far more interesting than the author acknowledges here. Meredith is a drama magnet who has somehow managed to remain sane for 9 seasons. Jack is that high school Most-Likely-to-Succeed type who's always got a plan, even a bad plan. He's…

This cover is simultaneously unnecessary and terrible. I hope they sound better singing something original. Also, I'd totally jump the bearded dude in the sleeveless shirt.

It was 1985. He was barely paying me at all.

When the infamous Moldavian wedding massacre season finale aired in May of 1985, I was working in the CNN newsroom. All of us were surrounded by TV monitors that silently aired a variety of network or cable channels. That night, virtually everyone in the newsroom was watching Dynasty, either silently or huddled…

Never heard of this guy before. But he's right.

I stuck with the show through the entire last (5th) season and I have to agree with you: the writers simply gave up on the supporting cast, all of whom had developed into solid, funny characters by that point. There were too many episodes devoted to Ellen's new love interest, who was just a bore. There were still a…

Well, your dad was not alone. After Degeneres came out on TV and in Time magazine, Jerry Falwell publicly called her "Ellen Degenerate." When Ellen was asked for a comment, she said something along the lines of, "How do you respond to something that sounds like it was made up by an 8th grader?"

I saw some clip of the writers discussing the show on YouTube and they revealed that Frawley only learned his lines for the scenes he was in and usually had little to no idea what the plotline of the episode was even about. If they changed any dialogue he'd already memorized, he got cranky.