"Plan B; if the team finds a habitable planet, but can’t return, they are to settle it themselves using thousands of frozen zygotes stored on their craft, and leave the Earth to die."

I believe his meaning is something like feeling as though there were no barriers to your continued rise.

"Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?"
Something about the syllables in the last line always sounded ridiculously amateurish to me, like something I might have come up with in middle school.

Are the references still to American Independence Day?

When you only have a half hour to develop a character (not just half an hour per episode, but half an hour, period) I would think you've got to rely on stock characters more often than not.

Minister of Defense: My God, what's Bond doing?

*Ho Chi Minh picks up mic* "Is this thing on?"

I don't see that implication. Could you quote the sentence you think implies that?

I think Brooklyn 99 would be better if both of these romances they're pushing would die off. I think they're much better as friends and co-workers than unrequired lovers.

I said, "Gee, I wonder why he's controversial. Did he cheat?" Then I read the article and it turns out that ABC News quoted two people out of 500 million Twitter users who don't like him.

It's in Ezekiel, Chapter 25, verse 17.

I hope they decide this season is the last season early on because I think the show has been damaged by thinking each season is going to be the last. They write try to conclude things, often in midseason, and then have to reopen everything.

A lot of people seem to be mixing up a parliamentary system and proportional representation. A parliamentary democracy is opposed to a presidential system. It means the executive branch is not an independent branch of government- it is appointed by the legislature and serves at the legislature's will. Our system is…

Presumably you were born after the creation of puppetry, though, right?

Was anyone really that disappointed when they found out Kermit and Fozzie weren't real?  I don't even remember a moment of finding out they weren't real.  I think kids are pretty good at distinguishing "just pretend" from reality.  Nobody told me cartoons weren't real either and I figured that out without tears.

Nah, it's a prequel.

Well, there's the fact that Michael didn't fire Dwight.

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Weird ringtone for your  creepy crush.

Jesse's going to have terrible PTSD.

Fun (?) fact: this episode featured two Everybody Loves Raymond alums.
Suzie Plakson (Marshall's mother) played Robert's ex-wife, Joanne (aka Cinnamon), and Sherri Shepherd played Robert's partner.