It's nice to see that Grunkle Stan has had an influence on his nephew.

The cryptogram at the end of the episode this week:

I can't believe they went with that when "Dipifica" was available.

I'm really excited about the possibility of a Dipper-Pacifica romance because of the various conflicts it creates: Dipper-versus-Mabel, because Mabel still doesn't much like Pacifica, Dipper-versus-self, because Pacifica still pretty much stands for everything Dipper loathes even if she's getting better, and possibly…

Dammit Dipper, someone capable of getting on the front page of the Gravity Falls Gossiper should know better than to grant a ghost one last request. One of my biggest laughs was how matter-of-fact the show presented the exorcism: just Dipper, surrounded by a holy circle, looking like Grunkle Stan had told him to clean…

Dying of ALS in 3-4 years will make the second part very easy.

Or, in the case of some of my family members, there are people who (for example) read The DaVinci Code because of the hype, sales, movie deal, etc., and then buy everything else Dan Brown has written when they discover they really like 3-page chapters with a cliffhanger at the end of each chapter.

When I saw the waitress, my first thought was that the actress playing her was remarkably good-looking. Then I heard Samberg's line, and now I have to deal with the knowledge that I'm on the same wavelength as post-breakup Peralta.

I always thought Garth and Kat was a good vehicle for Wiig's sketch-comedy talents, because I believe she isn't reading off cue cards- she's just listening to what Armisen's saying and trying to repeat it close enough to make it sound like a failed attempt at harmony. And I think Armisen might be improvising the…

In the red carpet bit beforehand, I found myself a lot less interested in the interviews than in looking at who was talking to who in the background.

Frankly, that boat sailed when we got the baroque CGI worlds of the prequels. I'm sort of glad the new Star Wars movie is following the original trilogy in making everything look beat-up and Remember how Luke's father's lightsaber looks in the first movie? Flickering in and out, shifting in intensity? That somehow…

Homer Simpson strikes me as exactly the person who would eat a food he hated because it was in front of him, not being eaten by anybody else.

"call me the Companion!"

I heard from the round-headed kid your going rate was 5 cents.

I really enjoyed it. At first I thought the ending was a bit cheesy, but now I think it might be one of King's best. And the length is pretty much the result of the author getting unexpectedly interested in the lives of his minor characters, which is something I'm almost always willing to forgive in a book.

I feel like John Gregory Dunne already wrote the book, albeit from a screenwriter's point of view. It's called Monster, and it's basically a story about how it took Hollywood producers eight years to turn a screenplay into a movie that had absolutely none of the qualities that caused the original screenplay to be…

I would actually pay for a Kidz Bop CD if it included a Bop-afied version of "Monster." I might even listen to it.

You should take AngryDad's reaction as a compliment to your writing ability. Anything that gets someone to angrily lash out at you for your whole commenting style (as opposed to lashing out at a single post) shows that you've cultivated a style they recognize and react to. That it's a negative reaction is hardly worth…

I have to imagine that Alison Lohman is a little annoyed by the existence of Alison Tolman. I mean, not as annoyed as Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney likely are by each others' existence, but I imagine she's gone to a few auditions where the producers say "wow! You look so different in the TV show!"

So that's what pegging refers to!