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Jim Carrey's glorified cameo in the finale, is my favorite performance of his. His "talk" with Larry after the song is fantastic.

"Well it looks like they're going to need to find a new trash boy for the skating rink."

You'd think that John Shiban would get singled out for his extensive work on THE X-FILES, which was actually supernatural-related. Or, his work on BREAKING BAD, because, you know, it's BREAKING BAD and who cares about HELL ON WHEELS?

Instead of "Redrum" on the wall, "Deyenkcah."

Ugh, this would have been beautiful. Jeff's been crazy with an ax before too. Jeff's been used in a Kubrick homage already too.
What we got instead was Jeff acting out his Abed TV plot, more or less.

Honestly, my biggest problem with this episode, which I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet:
Jeff pretending to be British to get this woman is NO different than Jeff pretending to be a freshman to get women in the dumbed down Abed TV version of the show in the premiere.

This is exactly what I thought. It didn't feel like a "fake clip" montage, and to only insert two fake clips is kind of undercutting. I think you're right.

FRINGE is the right answer here.

It would have been nice to get a similar article comparing and contrasting the PLANNED final seasons of FRINGE and THE X-FILES.

I'd like to see Kreiger's radioactive ants having some sort of Antagone effect on him.

This interview is great if only for Hurwitz talking about the plot they wanted to do for an episode (involving having homeless people at a party, but rather than getting actual homeless, they get rich people to pretend to be homeless), and the dumbed-down, much, much simpler version they ended up doing in the end.

Hurwitz said that the bleeps will remain. He said in terms of "violence" and "nudity", such same censoring may not occur, but I doubt we'd be getting a ton of the latters anyway. Glad to see he realizes the humor in the bleeps though.

The FIRST time we see the banana stand being hauled out of the water, in season 1, it has a reference to Hello/Hel-loh written on, which is either remarkable foreshadowing, or equally remarkable dot-connecting.

The FIRST time we see the banana stand being hauled out of the water, in season 1, it has a reference to Hello/Hel-loh written on, which is either remarkable foreshadowing, or equally remarkable dot-connecting.

I'd actuallly reallllly be into everything being reset pre-series and we saw some kind of reinterpretation of a scene from the pilot, like Olivia meeting Broyles; or something with Peter lingering in the background. Some kind of idea that this is all a moebius strip, and regardless of what happens, these people will

Interesting that Michael is referred to as an anomaly, and Peter, too, is one; he shouldn't exist, and, I believe, September might have even called him as such in the past?

Interesting that Michael is referred to as an anomaly, and Peter, too, is one; he shouldn't exist, and, I believe, September might have even called him as such in the past?

Just want to mention on the old X-Files plot/new movie tangent, that I couldn't enjoy "Source Code" at all, because the X-Files episode "Monday" did exactly what it was trying to do, and in a much more effective, varied manner.