Diane is obviously a liberal, but there's one moment in the series that really stands out for me because it's inconsistent with Diane's left-leaning politics. There's a scene in I don't remember which episode in one of the early seasons where some dude comes to Cheers and gets in a fight with Carla because he's a fan…

"Supreme overlord of snark", good one.

I'm replying to Ajax's two comments (the longer one below my post and the one about college grads): As college grads, I think we're way beyond privileging "authenticity" over anything. Authenticity strikes me as too modernist a concept. Benjamin's out. We've gotten to where we are today by way of Baudrillard and…

It may be because Shelley Long was Diane from the beginning, whereas it took a while for Danson and the rest of the cast to settle into their characters. To me, Diane doesn't stick out that much because pretty much all other characters seem a little out of their depth. She only sticks out when the show makes a…

Sorry about your dog! I went through a similar situation 4 years ago when they (a family member) put my dog to sleep, except they only told me about it two days after it happened. I found out over the phone. I had classes that day (college), and I went, but I had to skip them because I couldn't hold it together. The…

Yeah, like Liz Lemon's cat Emily Dickinson.