My tiny private school didn't want to spend a lot on any uniforms, so they bought a batch that had been returned to the uniform company — and changed the school's colors and nickname to match the new uniforms.  The school that didn't want the uniforms had a football team, but not a baseball team, while we were the…

Gotta love the Storybrooke Parks & Rec Department: "These swings are kind of boring.  How about we put some really large, sharp rocks right next to them so if a kid falls off he gets horribly injured or dies?" "Sounds good."

Was he a tiny, high-energy werewolf?

If she isn't related to Ginny, she should be.

It's not the worst thing they've done.  No, that would be (what is now) the series finale, with the plotline that it's totally cool when the NYPD shoots unarmed black men because they all look alike.  I wish I was kidding about this.

There are an infinite number of things that can burn (okay, maybe not infinite, but close). Different kinds of buildings, vehicles, different inanimate objects. Also, firefighters don't only take care of stuff that is on fire.  Vehicle (car, truck, bus, train, plane) accidents, hazmat calls, people trapped in stuff,…

Does that mean next season half the characters will be gone and rest will inexplicably work in a cupcake shop?

Oh, phew, I've been watching this in isolation and worried that I was the only one who hated Katie and, especially, Max with a strong passion.  Hey, did you know Max is a Republican?  You might not know that because he never mentions it.

Considering the coin they were able to drop on that basement at the drop of the hat (plus buying a not-cheap nail gun* on a whim), and that they are doing major remodels in an upscale community, in no way were they portrayed as barely making ends meet.  Granted, the massive fine they may face for doing plumbing work…

Why is Subway product placement, in particular, so over-the-top awful in every show?  Just consistently ham-fisted. It's like product repellent.

The Holes reference was in Season 2, Episode 2.  I liked this one even better, because they really ran with it.

When I was a youngster, during the Cold War, a student teacher assigned us a creative writing assignment to do a story about a spy.  I wrote a heart-tugging story about a spy who had been captured, and threw in the (obvious) twist at the end that he was a Russian spy in American custody.  Stupid student teacher gave…

I don't buy that Bacon took this piece of crap series because of the Madoff thing.  If that were true, there's no way his wife would have quite The Closer.  He must just have terrible taste in projects.

Oh, man.  I just realized that with the excuse of horrible burns, they can get a new actor to play Joe.  Because this show wasn't enough of a soap opera before.

You could invite some of the aging backwards people, for variety.

Nicholas Sparks.

Ooh, it's on Netflix.  I know what I'm watching tomorrow.

The first episode of Amy Shumer's show went up on Hulu last week.  It's not bad, definitely has potential.

No kidding.  But the people on Mad Men are a very particular subset of non-Black Americans, and it's not surprising that most of them weren't.

Most of the main characters weren't in any way engaged in the civil rights battle.  Unlike the death of the President, where everyone feels a sense of ownership and wonders what will happen to the country, a bunch of upper middle class white New Yorkers really didn't have a lot of personal investment in the movement. …