I agree.  You can almost tell when he's not (seemingly) doing that, because suddenly his dialogue gets ridiculously stilted.  Although it's probably just the occasional bought of shitty writing.

There were some touches of Beckett's mystery/crime geekgirl-ness in this ep, I thought.  I especially liked the bit in the comic book store where she announces she has no intention of reading Castle's graphic novel, but then the store owner says something like "But… you've had it on 'reserve' for weeks!"

Definitely; Fantastic Journey was awesome (to my 7-year-old self).

Wait, what?  Isn't Jonathan Goldsmith the guy who plays The Most Interesting Man in the World in the Dos Equis commercials?

Gah, there's been an overuse of "Earth 2."  I thought Ocelot was referring to the 1994-95 TV show starring Deborah Farentino and Clancy Brown, where a group of humans try to start a colony on a distant planet because Earth became uninhabitable.

Psych is significantly better than this.  Without question.

I used to drive by those signs in Madison all the time.  There was one outside my hometown and it stayed up for years and years.  If I drove past it with someone in the car who wasn't from the area they'd usually point it out—"Does that say 'km' at the end!?"

"Negative… didn't go in… just impacted on the surface."

So what new show has been better?  Playboy Club?  New Girl?  Ringer?  

Or Murphy Brown.

I'm surprised McGee ranked Kate Walsh so low; I thought she was pretty good.  But maybe I'm grading on a curve because I didn't expect her to say anything funny.  I laughed out loud at "I have to say, Charlie…it's amazing — after abusing your lungs, liver and kidneys, the only thing you've had removed is your kids."

I thought Amy Schumer was hilarious in this.  Steve-O probably didn't realize how harsh this was going to be, which is his problem (which probably isn't surprising since he's a complete moron).  Apparently the Twitterverse didn't realize it either.  It's a Roast.  Kudos to Amy for not pulling punches.

I thought Amy Schumer killed, but O'Neal came off as genuinely offended by some of the more racist-ey comments.  Which I suppose is fair, but it made him seem absurdly self-righteous.  Then he took the stage and bitched about how mean everybody was being.  I wanted somebody to ask, "Have you ever been to a roast…

I think adding something of a season-long arc to Castle could help make the show more interesting, and making it the "Who killed Beckett's Mom?" storyline makes a lot of sense.  Other shows that are just as frothy (I'm looking at you, White Collar) have a higher-stakes season long story arc.  And they work fine.

Ok, 'Play Classical Gas' was funny.  Nicely done.

He'd just lost Donna, not because she chose to leave him, but because she'd die if she remembered their time together.  And right after that he tells people:

I like this season and Moffat, but I didn't like this episode.  The Doctor already came to the conclusion he endangers his companions at the end of Tennant's run.  This is just a retread of that idea, and it feels like a retread.  And there's no where to go with it because companions are a pretty essential component…

She already said she's been signed on for next season.  She didn't say for how many episodes, but she will be back in some form.

"Mr. B Natural" has to be way up there.  When "Sponsored by Conn Music" came on the screen and Crow immediately bellowed, "KAAAAAAAHN!!" I came close to pissing myself.

The Leech Woman, oh man.  So many good lines.  "NEEEEEEAL!"  [Passing a bar called 'Bar'] "Hmmm, there's no 'art' in 'Bar.'"  "If he doesn't like old women, he shouldn't have gone into Old Womanology."