They think it is I who am crazy. But they are wrong. I will show them. It is I who am MAD!!!!

I felt like we haven't seen Doug in awhile, but he was all over "Dirty Secret". Interesting. I guess we're still a season away from…a development that happens to his character, so he's allowed to pop in and out.

True, the show glosses over it, but Turk got tasked with making a huge decision that will reverberate permanently throughout the lives of two people who will probably never see him again. The confidence and bluster with which he makes that decision belie its obvious difficulty, as he's probably using his trademark…

Well, Chuck was pretty episodic in its first season and a half. Basic case-of-the-week stuff. I followed that show pretty closely when it was new, but I gave up in the middle of the last season.

Not sure why you think it's a dumb thing to say. Bill Lawrence isn't good at making up names, so he uses the names of real people he knows. He's even admitted that he sucks at making up names, and I think it was on one of the DVD commentaries (but heck if I know which one. It's been years since I've watched the…

I will never understand why they didn't put "My Dirty Secret" in production order on the DVD. It's one of the most thematically-tight episodes the show ever had, but it really hinges on the punch line of "Nobody understands how important sex is more than someone who's not having it." Which, of course, uh… Danni.

@avclub-fce88321c6d9b474fa62e53042243f48:disqus , I heard your comment in Dana Snyder's voice, which made it even better.

It's not such much about "unexpected" as it is about changing the grammatical order of words. In the English language, with rare exceptions, the adjective comes before the noun it describes. So why is the last line in your quoted passage phrased "Stole the plans to a space station vast" instead of "Stole the plans to…

I would actually give that one a pass. Shakespeare was seldom spot-on with the iambic pentameter*; exceptions abound, and a good imitation is bound to have a few lines that don't scan right. For an aloud reading, I would err on the side of naturalistic pronunciation for "the plans to a space station…" rather than…

The most iambic-pentameter-heavy Shakespeare play is King Lear, clocking in at, IIRC, about 60% blank verse. If this adaptation is, as the review implies, all blank verse, then the author would appear to have missed the point of formalism is Shakespeare.

Yes, the density of the plot twists is probably the reason I liked last week's better. Seriously going to need to rewatch this one for full effect.

Agreed. However, possible third option: They don't want Monstroso dead (and therefore intentionally didn't kill him), they just wanted him to stop talking to the O.S.I., and needed him expediently removed from the airbase.

Rule of Funny.

Possibly my favorite line of the episode. That and Gather's post-credits tag.

And they both sound exactly like Master Shake.

J.K. Simmons.

They're over the Indian Ocean.

Zugzwang!

For the record: Monstrotov.

Liked for "Bitchcakes."