I hope Pesci joins them.
He's funny.

Before the show, Quentin was cutting up lines and offered me some. I said, "Quentin, I wouldn't snort your stash with Elayne Boozler's nose!"

"Also, skimming the cast list, I thought it was Scott Tobias' big film debut for a second. "

What do you mean ostriches can't fly? Step over the lava, 'cause it's time to JOUST!

My wife has The Diabeetus and has been known to test soda on her Glucose monitor to be sure.

I'm hoping we get a comic book at some point, telling the story of Rossum's rise and fall from Boyd and the Clydes' point of view.

Actually, Boyd creating echo fits right in with Buffy and River having been given their powers by evil men,then using them to gain their own freedom.

Boyd isn't a doll - or at least wasn't a year ago when he was exposed to the memory drug at the college.

He reminded me of a bulked-up Greendale Human Being.

News so depressing even Rabin can't remain cautiously optimistic.

Does it bother anyone else that their restaurant set looks nothing like a Cheescake Factory?

I definitely see the resemblance, but I don't think of them as sisters. I prefer to think of them as friends. Close friends. Intimate friends, exploring the cusp of womanhood together.

Collichio seemed to be pushing the "she disappeared from the front of the house, and she said that she would be accountable for the lamb" pretty hard at judges table, I do agree.

Sustainable - I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Is anyone else squicked out by the hypocrisy of opening a "sustainable" fish restaurant in Las Vegas, where all of the fresh seafood has to be flown in by jet, daily?

Tofu and Tanqueray

There was something similar in Neuromancer (which I happened to reread a few months ago.) Molly, before she became an assassin/general badass razorgirl, worked in a brothel where her personality and memory were submerged while she was with clients, who mostly were there for horrible sadomasochistic activities or rape.…

It could also be product placement.

My theory
I haven't seen the pilot (and I'm not planning to) but my guess as to why it doesn't work is that they're not telling a story that anyone wants to tell or that means anything to any of the principals on a personal level. The purpose was to come up with a Kelsey Grammer Vehicle and that was all. They brought…

Make that Psychedelic Social Satire.

Psychelic Social Satire
Acid-inspired allegory on The Nature of Man and Society's Attempts to Constrain Him, usually ending in a big, bizarre chase scene: