Yeah, it's too bad the early church had no thinkers who drew on an Aristotelian understanding of the world to complete, oh, I dunno, some sort of summing up of church theology?

@Whatwhatque:disqus your husband is frantically signaling for me to say "no."

Also, mass e-mails kind of reek of desperation.  Which isn't to say I haven't sent them… but yeah, I was lucky enough to be able to turn my grad school quirks into my "thing" rather than having them set me apart.  I definitely know what you mean about the loneliness, though.

The best part of "My Moment of Un-Truth" is Dr. Cox's "I told you so" dance:

Ooh, is this the "baselessly speculate on the writer's motives" thread?  My turn!

Hank fires his gun at Walt, and when the bullet is halfway there, Jesse jumps out of it and hits Walt with the improvised fly-swatter, which it turns out he's been saving all this time.

Gilligan was trying to warn us.  Why didn't we listen?  Now we reap our crispy, breaded, trans-fat-filled harvest anew with every hit off our free government-distributed crackpipes.

I don't know if "my children go to private school with the child of a musician I consider derivative" is exactly blues-worthy.

"Es el machete.  Tiene dos orejas, un corazón, y un pico para comer piel."

Who the hell is Joel Hodgman?

Ooh, I wouldn't like that… it'd take all the mystery out of life.

Well, South Park has never made a joke that also doubles as commentary, so I guess you must be right.  There's no way the joke could work on two levels, since everything can only ever mean one thing at a time.

Okay, what do you call that episode where Sheldon corks his face and puts on white gloves and gives us his famous catchphrase, "I SHO DO LOVE ME DEM STAR TREKS!"

hold on, let me get out my slide bass

No, Donna was saying that it's satirizing the idea of "rules" for curse words, in this case how it's more socially acceptable to say an epithet if you're a member of the group to which it refers.  Because the joke isn't just that Jimbo is closeted, it's that he doesn't even seem to be aware of it until he says, er,…

@avclub-ab60729bcbd8293eb5f31e5077c29049:disqus Except "The Coon," at least as far as I remember it, didn't ridicule that idea at all, or even address it.  It was pretty much a straight parody of The Dark Knight.  Any reference to Obama is an interpretation created by armchair critics who think that everything on…

I can't believe George Lopez is perpetuating the stereotype of the Grouchy Mexican.

Nice to know that the Backstreet Boys' idea of someone "doing them justice" is having them be the featured musical act to commemorate the arrival of the New Jerusalem following the second coming and the establishment of Christ's kingdom of Heaven on Earth.  It's nice when a band stays humble.

Really?  Darn.  Well, am I at least the only one then?

So I'm watching through the commentary on Season 3 for the first time, and if there were any doubt about the issue, I can confirm that Vince Gilligan is awesome.  The best moment so far is when he repeatedly refers to the topless dancers at the beginning of "Más" as "nice young ladies," which barely beats out the…