"Unflappable" may not be the best word. What I mean is that he was never thrown by anything. He could act exasperated, but he didn't freeze up or look helplessly toward the director. He kept things rolling no matter what.

I wondered whether it was a call-out to "Hill Street Blues." If I remember right, it was one of Belker's favorite insults back when you couldn't say any real insults on TV. There was an episode called "Requiem For A Hairbag." http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

I agree, a little harsh on LOFD. I don't see wanting to date someone on your intellectual level as more heinous than refusing to date anyone as old as you or as physically attractive. I hear gay guys list those last two criteria all the time. And they wouldn't write to Dan Savage looking for validation. They know…

Yes, though Sheldon doesn't order people around either. He has to dispense his knowledge, but if he's not directly affected by a situation, he doesn't care whether people take his advice. And Sheldon shows no interest in anyone else's personal life until, like Ron, "he's pushed by obligations of friendship." As for…

You're right. Howard merely got up there on a Russian rocket, presumably for the jokes about how it would probably crash.

That was "Final Escape," which was an hourlong 1964 episode remade (with a woman in the lead) in the 1985 reboot.

"Man From The South" was covered in a TV Roundtable last year. I don't have much to add to that great discussion, but it's a nice example of an episode pairing a rising star (Steve McQueen) with a veteran (Peter Lorre). I love the way that Lorre plays on McQueen's masculine insecurities (in front of a woman McQueen…

"her turkey dinner replaced with a meatloaf constructed from a collection of near-rancid leftovers." I'm pretty sure that it's Nutraloaf, which sounds much worse than rancid leftovers: http://www.slate.com/articl…

Mike's expression at that joke ("Do I really want to work for this jerk?") was great.

That's a valid point, though we're in unfamiliar waters here, since Selina has an unusually poisonous relationship with her "partner," the president. She seems to have been part of a shotgun marriage like John F. Kennedy picking Lyndon Johnson as his V-P. And that means she can't count on POTUS backing her up if she…

Jolly Green Jizzface rarely disappoints.

I don't know if you meant to refer to this, but I remember Bateman as being surprisingly well cast as Newhart's son on the one-season "George and Leo," with Bateman even incorporating Newhart's trademark stammer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

That makes more sense, so I watched the scene on my screener a few more times, but I still hear Mike saying, "Explosive. Crunchy. I'm just saying words." I take "I'm just saying words" as his acknowledgment that he just said something absurd and unusable.

True, though "we're ahead on turnout" is an odd way of saying it, as opposed to "turnout is high in Lake County." We're clearly not supposed to infer anything about party from this bit of info.

Both are errors. I suppose non-existent congressional districts can't be associated with real-life members of Congress, so maybe future episodes will refer to the 68th and 69th districts of California. I'm not sure about Ohio law, but realistically, no one could get away with trying to run for governor and Congress at…

His byline is Benjamin Shapiro. Understandably.

The dark humor mostly worked on this episode, hence the higher grade. I like what I've seen of Archer; it seems to have a higher standard of sick humor.

"Santa Claus was really… the gas man!" was a catchphrase for me and a few friends after we saw this as teenagers. Someone should have smacked us.

Will we see Blair's Undercarriage?

I suspect that Jeff is using Amy and he's only feigning romantic interest in her. But that may be because Amy feeling betrayed again seems so natural for this show.