"Show, don't tell"

How long until she crosses The Hound off her death list?  And not by killing him, I mean.  He's like the cold-blooded surrogate father the Stark girls need right now.

I believe, guys, that all bastards born in the north get the name Snow.  Just a heads up, in case you haven't read the books like me, and want to know stuff that I know. 

That shit looked good.  Coarse-ground mustard smeared down the length of it, too… I was slobbering all over myself.

It probably says everything about my opinion of the show that I just noticed they were reviewing it this week, then went back to the first episode review just to find a post like this I could reply to.

Very much on the same page as you.  It's just too quirky and too self-satisfied about its quirkiness.  Fuller strikes me that way in general, "Hannibal" notwithstanding; I would've bailed on "Dead Like Me" with swiftness if it hadn't been for Mandy Patinkin being so damn good in it.

Towards the end is the only time Ross was good, though.

Except for Phoebe, because of that night they all got drunk and were fisting her and crying, and ejaculate was flying around everywhere.

He was at least the best for this one scene: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

At least it's old and somewhat forgotten.  Picking on more recent novelty hits and The Black Eyed Peas is way too easy.

Yeah, she was great in that episode.  And as mentioned by others above, she was also believable and affecting in the dramatic stuff (often one of the show's biggest weaknesses, especially early on).  She was deservedly singled out as the probable star of the group.

Also when he wasn't being sarcastic, he was doing the fake lovey-dovey stuff with Monica, which was excruciating.  Those two seriously lacked chemistry.

Maybe to avoid inviting a really unfortunate comparison to Marvin Gaye.

These episodes aren't very good, so I'll focus on the dumb question at the end.

"4 Non Blondes? Aren’t there more egregious evils like “Macarena,” or some dance song, that you could have picked?"

Nope, can't do it.  Any song with the line, "You can't hear AAAA word we've said" deserves to burn in hell.

But why refer to Lowenstein at all in reply to what I wrote?  Clearly I wasn't talking about Lowenstein when I said "other dude's noise-bleats."

This trailer is a yawning chasm where laughs go to die.  Wow.  So bad.  So not funny.

I was talking about Gaffney, not Lowenstein.  Had to look that up though, it's been a while since I knew their names.  "Happily Divided" makes a lot more sense alongside the Barlow songs as compared to "Cry Sis," which balances out Barlow the same way a Jesus Lizard song would balance out an Enya album.

I didn't like what I heard of it either.  It sounded superficially like them, but the songwriting seemed very shallow and lacked that particular angularity and unexpected detours that characterizes their best material.  The new single posted here strikes me the same way - pleasant but uninteresting.