Thanks for this appreciation, Todd — I was lucky enough to catch the entire season when it originally aired, and moments from that season (the "paper bag test", the episode where a movie is shooting in the restaurant and the lackey who was dumped upon for the entire episode turns out to be the movie's writer) have…

I LOVED this show, and these characters — I've always assumed that Chris Carter killed these guys off so meanly and unnecessarily during the death throes of The X-Files as retaliation against the audience that didn't make this show a hit, AND that his general anger at this show's failure led to the "Up Yours, Loyal…

GREAT JOB, INDEED, INTERNET! Todd VanDerWerff is using the HIMYM finale to prove that he's the Smartest Man on the Internet — as he said in his Grantland article about the finale:
(The scene — filmed early in Season 2, revealing this was always the plan — in which his kids tell him to go after Robin immediately after…

Mrs. Komponist and I have watched the entire damn show, beginning to end — bravo, Todd VanDerWerff — you're writing a lot of the same things that we said to each other right after the closing credits. Meh, meh, meh. Not Chris Carter/X-Files bad, Bays and Thomas, but your audience deserved better.

I never thought that The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra could make me bawl like a baby, and then I saw Moonrise Kingdom … beautiful, beautiful, beautiful …

Sorry, but We Are Men should have won in three other categories here — Worst New Series, Worst Pilot, and Biggest Waste of Onscreen Talent. To call this show a steaming pile of horse dung dishonors equine feces everywhere.

"Who cries even better than ten thousand Mulders." Take that, Duchovnian inability to cry convincingly!

HOORAY! This was the STUPIDEST show to come along in a LONG time! Shaloub, Penn, couldn't you smell the stink off the pilot script? How in the HELL did you two decide to participate in this GARBAGE project?

OH MY GOD! Just watched this on DVR last night, because of Tony Shaloub and Kal Penn —WHAT were they THINKING? Penn's character might go somewhere in the course of this trainwreck, but where can Shaloub take his character? Awful, just awful. The two of them could get just about any pilot greenlighted that they…

Kevin Klein? Didn't he do some Calvin Kline ads in the '90s?

"Our goodness is a promise we make to the world."

OK, so Bobby Ewing dies, and adorable Cousin Oliver moves in with the Bradys. Why not have Matthew make a death-defying leap over a shark? AAAAAYYYYYYY!

Yes, Todd, yes it is. Wonderful, wonderful, WONDERFUL!

Tesar — wow! Read the article about him in D Magazine, "The Most Hated Chef in Dallas", and in addition to the Jimmy Sears stuff in Kitchen Confidential, read "New Year's Meltdown" in Don't Try This at Home. Ow!

I have to admit that I would like at least SOME time spent watching the Ted and Mother relationship establish and grow. I continue to enjoy the journey immensely (so much hate and negativity about recent seasons around here!), and I can live with meeting the Mother being the last shot of the series, but I won't be…

I have to admit that I would like at least SOME time spent watching the Ted and Mother relationship establish and grow. I continue to enjoy the journey immensely (so much hate and negativity about recent seasons around here!), and I can live with meeting the Mother being the last shot of the series, but I won't be…

"… where a man can live his life in full measure …"

"… where a man can live his life in full measure …"

ALL I wanted was for Ben Sisko to read a Spenser holonovel on DS9! Imagine the DS9 opening like all the Spenser For Hire episodes, with Robert Urich doing a voiceover over a panoramic shot of Boston, mentioning his friend Hawk, and Avery Brooks as Sisko trying to do a line read as Hawk — wouldn't have had to go past…

ALL I wanted was for Ben Sisko to read a Spenser holonovel on DS9! Imagine the DS9 opening like all the Spenser For Hire episodes, with Robert Urich doing a voiceover over a panoramic shot of Boston, mentioning his friend Hawk, and Avery Brooks as Sisko trying to do a line read as Hawk — wouldn't have had to go past…