Since Shawn told Michael that if his experiment goes sideways again he's done, if/when everyone starts to figure things out again, it might be in Michael's best interest to ally with them against the rest of the Bad Place, which would be interesting.

Truly.

All good points.

I'm inordinately glad that Janet is not a phony.

Wait…you mean it's possible all the good stuff I've been doing since I started watching this show might be for nothing…?

So…what should we send to NBC to campaign for this gem of a show to be renewed? Froyo? Cacti?

Mr. Poe's Freakout of Contradictions was so brilliantly delivered that I rewound and watched it multiple times.

I can't count how many times I've seen Mulan, but ironically I only just noticed/recognized his name in the credits when I rewatched it a few weeks ago. His voice was truly perfect for that character.

In "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", the Wolfman was actively trying to stop Dracula, but that's the nearest thing I can think of before the stuff you mentioned. And now I'm really curious about it because you're right, you can scarcely see a story these days about vampires or werewolves without the other being…

The only hope I hold on to for this show is that my continuously dwindling hope (which began when Bryan Fuller "stepped back") is entirely unwarranted. I guess we'll see.

I don't know, I feel like Hector might've had some kind of thought along those lines when he said "Why are all my friends in love with this girl?!"

Dr. Akopian fought like a champion to keep Rebecca on the path to a breakthrough but the show's universe is just too stacked against that outcome. Her emotional arc in that scene was spectacular to witness as she went from growing excitement to over-the-moon happy to nervous to panicked to desperate until that final,…

"And I brought gummy vitamins!"

Rebecca has the best damn "Mom!!!" shriek I have ever witnessed.

Guards! Guards! is the first Terry Pratchett book I ever read, so I can speak to it being a great entry point to the Discworld. I was in my late teens and browsing the Sci Fi/Fantasy section of Borders, looking for a new book. Between the name (which clued me it to it being at least partially comedic) and the dragon…

Since that's a lie detector test, I have to wonder if that meant that Jason knew he wasn't doing so well, at least subconsciously. I mean, I'm definitely not upgrading him to "super genius" or anything, but he is pretty self-aware by that last scene in Michael's office. So maybe his whole life he's just been…

Poor Michael! He thought the Eleanor mix-up was bad! I'm so happy the show didn't cheat us out of witnessing Michael's discovery of the marriage and Jian-yu deception, because it was even better than I'd hoped for. I'm sure the amount of joy I took from Michael's horror, incredulity, frustration and despair would net…

Maybe it's because I'm still mourning the loss of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, but I'm feeling very nostalgic about Carrie's time co-hosting the essentials. I loved the personal perspective she brought to it.

Yeah, my initial reaction was, "Is she teaching a gender politics class somewhere and wanted to ensure that she could justify putting her new book on the required reading list?"

Wow. Just… wow. My eyebrows made it all the way to my hairline by inching up a little at every head-scratching example you described from this book.