Other costumes from this episode: http://community-tv.livejou…. (I know, I know, LJ, embarrassing. You'll thank me.) 

If the show buys into reactionary politics as it seems to in the character of Mike, it makes sense that economic woes and social class are completely absent from the picture - a big part of the success of the right since Nixon's day has been recasting the elites vs. common man battle from an economic conflict to a…

It seems like every show Greg Daniels leaves - Simpsons, King of the Hill, and the Office - starts sliding into irreversible decay as soon as he leaves. He could be the secret linchpin of all current TV comedy?

That was fairly insane, and I get the feeling that if I properly thought about the episode it wouldn't make anything like sense, but I kind of loved it anyway.

Amy really is the best character on the show by an embarrassing margin at this point.

Truly our culture has no greater representations of the heroic journey archetype than a professional bullshit artist, a mediocre-to-crap screenwriter, and Tony Hawk.

Your review is bad and you should feel bad.

True, but from what I've read DVR-added ratings are becoming a lot more legitimate because a really astonishing (to me) percentage of people apparently actually watch the commercials on things they record.

That must've been during a Sweeps period - they send out booklets to additional people to broaden their sample size. It's supposed to be more accurate, and that's why the networks set their rates for advertisements based on those times.

My understanding of how it works - which may well be incorrect, as I last looked into the process a while ago - is that, basically, if you're not a Nielsen household (and you're probably not) they have no idea what you're watching; the company randomly selects some households that are supposedly demographically…

I didn't find either episode very funny, but maybe that's mostly because I watched them live, with oppressively constant Two and a Half Men commercials (I swear they popped up *every commercial break*), and that killed any momentum the show could build. Also, you know, my will to live.

You may be my new hero.

The best part of that was that we were supposed to see Jimbo as a poseur wimp because…he was afraid when a deranged screaming man charged at him with a knife. So great/crazy.

I love reading movie reviews where I think the reviewer must be joking and then realize they're talking about an *actual plot point.* Thank you, ghost of a kamikaze pilot playing Battleship! 

There's a recent SyFy Channel-ish version of Sherlock Holmes that I would recommend for people who enjoy the hilariously-terrible: http://www.imdb.com/title/t…. Almost entirely Welsh cast, an actor playing Sherlock with no other credited roles, and ROBOT DINOSAURS. It's kind of amazing.

BBC announced a while ago that the new series of Sherlock won't be airing until sometime in 2012. Which is annoying, because from what I've read the episodes are all pretty much ready now, BBC just can't make the scheduling work.

In fact, 'prove' used to mean 'tested' rather than 'confirmed.' So the expression originally/correctly means that an exception tests/potentially disproves a rule.

I think you must have this backwards or something - Nancy Grace on Dancing With the Stars is an unholy collision of utterly intolerable things.

The important question: is it *funny*-bad, in its sheer ineptitude? Or just offensively dull/loud?

Loose…socks? Is that an actual Japanese schoolgirl fetish feature everyone knew about but me?