"I don't suppose you brought your rocket launcher."

Leo's "Don't mess with us tonight," is my single favorite line of dialogue ever on TV. Spencer was exceptional at playing angry in this role but I never got more chills than in that exchange. Leo would have completely bypassed the line of succession and bombed some people.

I was about to go so far as to call Boyd's Church scene "over the top," but then I recognized a little bit of Ric Flair's stylin' and profilin' in the performance and I had to smile.

Also, the easiest read on having "Bobby Sue" confess to the meth lab firebombing is that Boyd is using the preacher routine to manipulate the people around him to his own ends.

insurance*

I liked that after his "You're late" line to Winona Raylan lifts his watch to show her what time it is, while he is still drunk, beaten and lying on the ground.

She said if Heaven's hypothetical / And if the sins (cigs?) keep you warm /
Then how's she supposed to think about / How it's gonna move in the morning?

and the kurtosis and skewness of the grades

I thought it had been decided here long ago that the AV Club was going to refer to this as the sequel to Delgo. I miss that first WTF reaction to the preview.

I think that I hold King Rat in the same esteem as Satellite Skin from that album. Other personal favorites from this year include:

My biggest problem is that there was never any indication that Polly cared about Edmond, at all. She always seemed as if she were using him to get to Jimmy-O and eliminate needing an intermediary. That they simply used that lazy story line to get Gemma, and thus SAMCRO, into that plotine just so they could end the…

I think all of my favorite moments have been mentioned thus far but there are two more that really got me. I loved Jay's reaction to "something" and "nothing" on his shoulder. Lastly Julie Bowen saying "hole in one" just got me thinking about the Happy Gilmore dream sequences with her in white, then black lingerie. …

What about rodeo? Would that be a fifth type of clown? I don't think bull baiting fits comfortably in any of the other clown descriptions.

Manny made the night for me from butchering the timing of the interrupting cow, to his "cannot be a worse time Claire" as he was chasing the girl, and then swooping in from the zipline. I really like what he brings to the show. He is a candidate for least insufferable child actors on a sitcom.

"You think I ain't worth a dollar, but I feel like a Millionaire" at least makes a legitimate argument that the band is metal. That song has bad intentions.

I honestly debated whether Exile Waltz and/or Finisterre were actually among my favorite albums of the decade. Then I listened to them again and remembered that I absolutely love what the Zydepunks do.

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

It took me damn near an hour to remember Sade's "By Your Side" and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Maps." Alison Krauss' cover of Tom Waits' "Trampled Rose" was pretty damn great as well.

My 10 or so favorite songs
How a Resurrection Really Feels - Hold Steady
The View - Modest Mouse
Wherever you Go - Built to Spill
Gentle Hour / The Story of Yo la Tango - Yo La Tengo
La Vie est Courte et Cruelle - The Zydepunks
Where the Devil Don't Stay / Gravity's Gone - Drive By Truckers
Evening on the Ground - Iron and…

Vienna Teng - Pontchartrain