Nasim Pedrad is awesome but I find it hard to look at Mindy Kaling these days after what she did to her face.

Nasim Pedrad is awesome but I find it hard to look at Mindy Kaling these days after what she did to her face.

I got the impression it was a private joke between Fred and Carrie.

NO!! DAMN it, Rabin, did you come back to AV Club just to savage one of the finest films known to man and its lesser but acceptable sequel??????????

He's on the record that the character was named after (then-hot male model) Mark Vanderloo, who I think actually appeared in the MTV awards skit with him. I think originally it was going to be Vanderzoo but that was too close.

Lydia, not Kitty!!!!!!!!!

I understood the appeal of Jess as a sexy bad boy but that guy was a terrible actor (I think maybe he improved a bit by the time Heroes rolled around). Some of his line readings were just atrocious.

P.S. created by the same people who created Affair, incidentally or not.

Meh. There was a whole show called "In Treatment" that was basically nothing but characters talking to therapists. It bored the shit out of me but my husband liked it.

Thank you for making that important distinction.

Yeah. He even said "I have done" instead of "I have"—only a Brit would say that, it's just not how Americans talk. Come on. Try harder.

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night

So basically, the biggest, most successful thing to come out of Mad Men is … John Ham.

They used it well though. I haven't watched consistently in recent seasons but I still remember Betty's hurt and embarrassment at unwittingly being used to demonstrate the merit of Don's supermarket promotion.

Shucks. I was really hoping you'd ask about Northern Exposure.

It's a serious addiction (cigarettes are formulated for peak addictiveness beyond what the naturally-occurring nicotine in tobacco would cause) and maybe it's even harder to give up if you have no other vices.

The Ghost Whisperer (everyone here is a fan of that show, right?) did the same thing of skipping ahead after the main character had a baby. That way, in the final season Melinda's fellow ghost whisperer/precocious son was able to rescue her when she succumbed to fatalistic despair. Not sure I agree with that choice…

It is QUALITY storytelling. Every episode is packed with over-the-top drama. Reminds me of watching Dallas and Falconcrest when I was a kid, but this one has music as well.

No contest. Red Vines. And I live on the East Coast.

Let the scores be settled!