My favorite, unintentionally hilarious moment was when, after taking the gun from Lizzie, Carol tells her to go with Tyrese while she "ties up" Mika.

Keep in mind that nobody had the heart to kill zombie Sophia, either, and she was already dead. Even tough talking Shane with all his psychopathic, social Darwinian bravado couldn't pull the trigger.

First of all, I just want to clarify that I'm pretty high on this episode. I share a lot of your enthusiam and I certainly don't feel the grade matches up with the standard previous episodes. However, my appreciation for this episode was tempered by a few things:

I thought it was a fairly effective episode (though, why zombies couldn't be explained more explicitly to Lizzie is yet another example of this show's inability for characters to have simple, straightforward conversations) and the ending was sufficiently shocking.

Carol allowing Lizzie to wander the world as a walker would have been an implicit recognition of the validity of Lizzie's confused views.

Totally agree. In terms of plot advancement, this was perhaps a bit more substantial than most episodes this year, but still ultimately pretty boring. The stakes just couldn't be lower it seems.

You don't know what you're talking about. These VCR games is where everything is headed. Can't you see that?

A solid B+ from me. This was one of the more joke rich episodes lately. The pacing also felt just right, whereas last week's seemed rushed and the week before seemed drawn out.

Did you remember to say "Yee haw"?

No! Bid five!

Please, please, please, for the love of all that is holy, do not let there be a drawn out "Is Daryl a nihilistic redneck now?" arc.

Somebody last year posited that perhaps the virus they all have also makes them profoundly stupid and reckless. It's about the best explanation I can think of.

"Best friend."

In Greg Daniels land, we call that "pulling a season 8."

Probably more an indictment of this season than anything.

The cartoonish villains have served as a fill-in for the real, credible, believable opposition Leslie was supposed to face: the old, rusty machinery of city hall.

"Parks And Recreation this year has been so sloppy with the details of governance—never really a top priority for the show, understandably…"

The episode wasn't great, but it served up a bunch of great "Ron-isms", including his belief that "most people are assholes" for not appreciating quality wood floors and "My son is a couple weeks old; he's used to being around power tools."

B is about right. It probably would've worked better as an hour long episode to show how Greendale descended to "East Germany" as predicted.

I liked her on WU with Seth Meyers, but that's probably just because anybody looks better next to Seth Meyers.