You know, of all the moments in all the TV shows, it's the end of that cage-fighting episode where the gang feels good about having freed the fighter/slaves and suddenly realizes they've loosed a bunch of criminally-minded demons and monsters on an unsuspecting public that might just possibly be the best moment ever. …

My heart sang when I watched that episode.  It was just perfect.

My heart sang when I watched that episode.  It was just perfect.

I did too!!

I did too!!

"A basic tenet of show don't tell," not "a basic tenant."

"A basic tenet of show don't tell," not "a basic tenant."

I totally agree with 99% of this and love, love, love 30 Rock.  I would just say I didn't love the casting of Mary Steenburgen.  I like her as an actress but she is just not WASPy and patrician.

I totally agree with 99% of this and love, love, love 30 Rock.  I would just say I didn't love the casting of Mary Steenburgen.  I like her as an actress but she is just not WASPy and patrician.

I think she's good.  I loved the introduction of the character last season, when she talked about her "French extraction."  She's deliberately awkward, I think.

I can't tell if it's that Jon Hamm is aging rapidly or that the styles of the earlier sixties as represented in the earlier seasons suited him better … or maybe that he smiles a lot more now that he's with Megan, and he's handsomer scowling?

I did like that he copped to having had creative think up pitches for the dinner, rather than pretending he came up with them.  That surprised me since it seemed like he wanted Ginsburg to ghostwrite for him.

Jesus.

Did she really do Burger King commercials?  Why?  She's married to a super rich guy.  Also, I can't help recalling her McDonald's plugs on 30 Rock.  Conflict?  (I guess not, or BK wouldn't have hired her.)

And don't forget Earth Girls Are Easy.

Yes, apparently his artistic vision was not fulfilled or some s*** like that.

If only it was an alien instead of a teddy bear it would be Married With Children crossed with ALF, which would be a lot of wisecracking in one room.

All I know is they jumped the shark with that Justin Timberlake movie.

Teddy Ruxpin doesn't have to come to life because he is alive already.  TEDDY RUXPIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Throttle back, Mav.