"If it weren't for someone plagiarizing the Honeymooners, we wouldn't have the Flintstones. If someone hadn't ripped off Sgt. Bilko, they'd be no Top Cat. Huckleberry Hound, Chief Wiggum, Yogi Bear?"

The relationship plotline is going to be a problem in the future, but I'm not going to think about that right now.

Watching this is making it a lot harder for me to pretend it doesn't exist.

I had a lot of problems with this, so I'll choose to focus on how bad the Rodney Dangerfield impression was.

Also in his last appearance, Sideshow Bob faked his death and ended the episode no longer in police custody. Some things you're not supposed to acknowledge.

A lot of theatre, so no.

I would say the same thing about TVLand shows and FX's pre-ten pm originals, but enough of those seem to last in unexplained perpetuity that I can't.

Oh, I thought you meant the other Charles Rocket thing.

A lot of problems with this one, but only one big one. Michael Che could not get the cadence down for how to deliver a joke. I know he's not paired up or replacing with the greatest joke reader ever, but damn, that was awful, as if he was reading them for the first time with no preparation. I know, "first week" and…

Happy Birthday (yesterday, I guess, unless Grand Rapids is some in some bizarre alternate time zone).

But goddamn, Michael Che cannot read a joke.

Darrow is another great "by default" answer.

With only twelve episodes left, I don't think they'll go for it. That's typically reserved for a between seasons thing.

Or Drew and no one will notice.

I knew a guy named Tom Cruz and he absolutely loved doing Tom Cruise jokes.

A relative of mine was named after Keith Richards. Is that the case for you?

You really think I'm gonna answer this one?

I finally figured out the way to watch this show is to less than half-listen and work during two-thirds of it and look up during the Dunphy family scenes.

You. You're their best friend, and you come to visit and they relate the story of their day so vividly that you imagine the rest in your head.

What made that so good last season was that it isn't something they'd really done before. If it becomes an every third episode type of thing, the impact levels falls and it becomes another dull ploy.