It's funny how even in the good shows, the well-adjusted characters stick out like sore thumbs. Somewhere out there, there's a universe that's full of them.

I sought out the electric version because I was curious how she dealt with it. She definitely played up the disjunction by introducing different instruments. It shows an awareness that I appreciate, but I still view it as a problem, even though it was likely a conscious choice.

I'm not one to make a lot of noise when I watch TV, but when Team Jacob told Dumbass not to chant anymore, I think I breathed an audible sigh of relief.

I'm contemplating "Team Jacob" for the burly dude, given his uncanny resemblance to a certain actor from a certain movie series. I'm secretly rooting for Lameass to fulfill more of the potential the writers gave her in a few scenes, but for now, the name is sadly appropriate.

"Accomplished singer-songwriters react to sitting on a whoopie cushion, and then navigate an entire interview where Sean O'Neal subtly implies that they did, in fact, cut a giant fart: AV Club is proud to present Somebody Cool Just Farted 2012."

I think the tragedy would've been bumping into her and having been part of the inspiration for an album about profound isolation and loneliness. That doesn't exactly reflect well on you, no matter how you slice it.

I suspect Starky Love's reply won't be sufficient answer for a guy who's achieved the ultimate internet zen of caring just enough to read comments and attempt to make snarky replies, but not one bit more?

I like it. 1,000 years is a long time not to try on some new name-duds, after all.

I'm not sure I can agree that TVD has really lived up to this trope, however. The whole sunlight thing was aggressively hand-waved away for pretty clear meta reasons, and apparently vervain tolerance is something that can be developed over time.

Even though they've been laying the foundation for the Viking origin for quite some time now, those names begged for a Biblical or pre-Biblical origin. Oh well. Find a witch and blame her for it. My vote's for their mom.

The episode worked out so well because the show played hard to its strengths: Bitchcraft and Sex Magic. Even when it felt slightly out of character, the Bitchcraftiness displayed by Tightass, Dumbass, and Faye (best character keeps her name; it's a rule) was refreshing and fun. Tightass's Bitchcrafty contribution to…

I'm perfectly willing to give the "English" in the flashbacks a pass. Subtitles and foreign languages are a huge extra burden for a show, and it's worth noting that most of the flashbacks were being relayed to a native English speaker in the modern era. Not all of them, but most of them.

As to your bitch: I find it annoying and useless that you lodged a "nobody asked you" style complaint against a post that was a response to somebody actually asking. It connotes pointless belligerence.

I'd also imagine that, with the exception of a few always-game subjects, an honest attempt to intellectually engage the interview subject might produce a better interview - which I assume would be the primary goal.

Based on that logic, I'm assuming that your current courseload includes Flaming 101, Introduction to Logic, and a remedial English course?

I can't shake the feeling that this would've played better as a Lassiter/Mantis episode, with Lassiter grappling with his inner conflict about how he views vigilanteism, with his (professional) jealousy of Juliet's obvious admiration for the guy playing into that.

It felt a little forced. Roday doesn't always hit the mark when he improvises, but you can tell when he's not doing it and he really wishes he were.

A couple of things:

It's too bad that the line she grabbed from Monroe is the only part of the song that just plain doesn't fit and doesn't work.

Seems like the songwriter made a mistake when he stuck with rhyming convention in the middle bits (and yes, it was pretty difficult to point my finger at "the middle bits," for reasons that should be obvious if you listened to the track.)