I think it's a testament to Chalke's skills that someone that beautiful can successfully portray crippling social awkwardness.

Perry's cavalier attitude about wheeling a corpse around the hospital is, according to my father, one of the most realistic portrayals of a doctor on television.

Scrubs is a show I find myself liking almost in spite of myself. It's flaws are all on glaring display, but it has a set of characters I don't mind hanging out with for a half hour while I'm making dinner (I always seem to catch the early evening re-runs when I need background noise). It has an undeniable heart and…

This may be my favorite episode of the show to date. I was grinning ear to ear by the end. The final scene with Andy and April was just perfect, including his "Wait, where are all the heads?" and April's look of incredulity.

Also, she's technically a guard and shit.

You are in good company. It's nearly impossible not to shotgun the back half of the series once you get this far. It improves vastly on rewatch.

I enjoy that fight scene as well. It's the first time we get to see Aang use earthbending in anything other than a training context, and the seamless integration of all three elements into the episode is pretty excellent.

I savvy Republican politician trying to curry favor with working class, "real America" conservatives wouldn't have even set foot in New York City.

Given Bartlett's character arc in this particular season, it make sense that his opponent would be a folksy hack.  Ritchie is precisely what Bartlett thinks he has to become in order for people to like him.  Once he's shown that such an image—while politically useful,perhaps—is rooted in moral shallowness, he can step…

I think that was absolutely the point, yet Perry seems like even more of a Ritchie than Bush ever was.

Yeah, I love Hayden's reading here.  Even though a good bit of it is based on conjecture, I think it fits within the logic of the show and with the way the characters are portrayed.  I wonder if the argument that he laid siege to Ba Sing Se as a way of drawing out the conflict until he ascended to the throne is a bit…

I didn't click on either, and now I'm definitely not gonna.

It just gets better on rewatch.  I don't see any disadvantage to watching the whole series now and then rewatching episodes as the reviews come out.

Exactly.  Plus, Iroh knows that it's the Avatar's role to defeat the Firelord and "restore balance," so presumably he foresees a future in which Zuko would need to challenge his sister for the throne.

MAJOR SPOILERS CONT'D:  At first, I thought her anger at him sort of came out of nowhere, since she had expressed eagerness to see him in earlier episodes, but considering what she goes through in the final episodes of Season 2, you have to think that  what her father was doing—patrolling the mouth of a bay—would look…

Speaking of training sessions, I wonder what earthbending lessons between Toph and Master Yu/Wu/whateverhisname is were like.  I imagine she just fucked with his head a lot.

I noticed that my DVR hasn't picked The Desert up, even though its been programmed to catch Avatar episodes for months.  I wonder if Nick's programmers have decided its too much.

I think preparing him to be Firelord is a legitimate reading and one that I like.  Iroh takes the long view when it comes to this stuff, and it fits with the lesson he's trying to hammer into Zuko:  the importance of stepping outside of his father's shadow and becoming his own man.

She became a de facto adult when her Mom died and the adult men in her life took off, (THEMATIC SPOILERS) and I like that the writers give her permission to be pissed as hell about it in the third season.

"And you're too much of a pushover to do anything about it."