Clearly, he was a deux ex machina in order to create the premise and the resolution they wanted. If he were a major plot point this season, that would bother me. As a relatively minor device to put the musical episode in motion, I'm okay with that.

The best Glen Beck was the Colbert Report's "War Room". "Crank up the crazy and tear off the knob."

Or how about a Taser? Every hick cop shop in the country has them, but the DEO doesn't?

I guess having him return to his home planet may not be as final in this series as in others.

"Woman of Steel, Man of Kleenex"

How long will it take Barry to realize that the default plan has to be that whenever something seems even the least bit hinky he needs to put like 10 miles between him and the situation and then come back at superspeed from a different direction faster than anyone/everyone in the area can track him? I guess when your…

We could only hope.

Upvoted for Earth-W, or just any episode where Tom Cavanaugh plays all the characters.

Actually, in this case, special effects budget.

Hey, by itself Gene Hackman in "Young Frankenstein" == lifetime pass.

"You are not my time precinct supervisor!"

"Oh, look, my super powerful adversary is lying immobile in a cage that dampens his massive powers. Despite no reliable witnesses to what happened, I'll perform only the most cursory examination before I open the cage and drag him out exactly 15 feet for no particular reason before leaving the area completely…

I really liked the off hand comment about Africa being cold and the lack of global warming. Nice job hanging a lantern on it. But, yeah, it's amazing how much the forest outside of Gorilla City looked like one of the worlds SG-1 visited.

Check out U.S. Code 5 Section 501. Using his likeness in an ad is illegal for anyone who does business with the government. (I know, add it to a long, long list on day 1.) Removing his likeness from web sites is one thing. I don't know what they're going to do about having his name on all those buildings. At the…

Barry: "Is this how you get ants, Future Barry?"
Future Barry: "Yes. Yes, it was."

I would like to see the two of them act in something together. That would be really cool.

That was not how I received that part of the story. I don't think there's a lot of attempt to vindicate him or anything, but just because he was a bad guy doesn't mean that he doesn't have some depth of character. He and Misty were partners, apparently for some time, based on how close they seemed. I expect her to…

I like how magically bringing Duke Ellington back to life is considerably more probable than mishearing architectural details.

I had to look that up because I couldn't tell if you were joking or not. Just to save someone else the Wikipedia clicks, it is, indeed, true. And, Ffffe, you are also correct that it may be the greatest nickname ever.

"in Flanders fields…"