Given the short seasons, it's not like she'd have to stay bald for six months or anything.  She should have gone the full Natalie Portman.

They also have at least some international revenues, since Parenthood is shown in Canada by Global.  They've moved it around the schedule a little—they were showing it a day early on Monday and have now switched it to Fridays—but I think that's mostly because it makes more sense to schedule it around other things than…

@avclub-2699a553580f039ce51cb742ed676ad2:disqus I wouldn't suspect it going to ABC Family regardless, due to the fact that it's in a different corporate family.  Maybe Oxygen, since that's part of NBC Universal?

She said Drew's name when she ran into Mark at school—something like, "Drew couldn't appear in this episode, so I had to drop off his term paper for him."

Being in Canada, I streamed it from the Global website, which, strangely, showed almost exclusively ads for Parenthood.

THERE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE SKITTLES!  I WAS ELECTED TO BRING BACK THE SKITTLES!!!

I'm honestly astounded that neither Julia nor anyone else on the show has stopped for a moment and thought, "hey, maybe asking this kid to call me mom and to tell me he loves me seems like a betrayal to him of his birth mom."  Cause, I could totally see most 9 year olds thinking that—that if they start to love Julia,…

For one, I'm pretty sure they always require the kid to see a therapist/social worker during the first few months to talk through things from his perspective.

He finally, after all these months, got to taste the rainbow.

@avclub-1df8797177fc3b52be6784aacca7358c:disqus Plus, there was a lot of room to skate by in the old three network system.  As long as the ratings weren't too terrible, it was relatively easy to justify keeping something you really liked around, since you could argue it was just facing stiff competition from whatever…

@avclub-ba1e09e54b82af1372a6ef9bffc9f19c:disqus I know I lived during a time when the networks aired original programming on Saturday night, but, damn, it seems so ridiculously foreign now.  It's like learning that the top British shows are half hour soap operas aired nightly during prime time—you can sort of see how…

Yeah, growing up in the white suburban midwest, watched like half of those shows, plus stuff like In Living Color and the Fresh Prince in the early 90s.  With the exception of Cosby and A Different World, though, almost all of them were on Fox.

He missed the critical sock gap.

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We demand the finest wines available to humanity!  We want them here, and we want them now!

Well, there is snobbery, but it's a different sort of snobbery.  There's definitely a sense of intellectual superiority, that Chicago students actually want to learn, think big thoughts, etc., while students at School X are just there to get good jobs in politics or finance.  At its worst, you had the people who would…

Well, there is snobbery, but it's a different sort of snobbery.  There's definitely a sense of intellectual superiority, that Chicago students actually want to learn, think big thoughts, etc., while students at School X are just there to get good jobs in politics or finance.  At its worst, you had the people who would…

Not sure where you're getting that, @avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus . Not a single friend of mine from Chicago "ha[d] the right connections." It's much more about proving that you're a Chicago-type than about showing that you are well-connected (unlike at a lot of peer institutions).

Not sure where you're getting that, @avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus . Not a single friend of mine from Chicago "ha[d] the right connections." It's much more about proving that you're a Chicago-type than about showing that you are well-connected (unlike at a lot of peer institutions).

Nah, this pretty much fits in with what the U of C wants for essay responses. In fact, this could easily be the response to this question: