Rebecca would never get her emissions test at a gas station or a Quicklube. She supports local enterprise!

No, I'm pretty sure the butter campaign was national, since Rebecca kept seeing the ads in the WC. So the ad firm could easily have been in New York or LA.

I will be a little sad if CxG wins out at the expense of JTV. But it does seem a possibility, since they're two of the lowest-rated shows on the CW. If I was forced to choose I'd go with the former, since Jane's already gotten a second season. But it could make for an unintended comment about women and minorities…

"Very funny. Very funny."

Eco's books are always wonderfully erudite and yet charmingly human. Foucault's Pendulum was the first book of conspiracy fiction I ever read, and it set the bar pretty damn high. If it wasn't for him, I never would have been able to grapple with works as diverse Gravity's Rainbow and From Hell. Every time I picked up…

And open on Mondays too, I bet. You sure led the sweet life, sucking on the teat of our nation's capital!

A stew is just a soup that's gotten overwhelmed by possibility.

An onion and a carrot, maybe? A stalk of celery if you're into that.

When you grew up as poor as I did, you get to spend a lot of time in the gift shop of the children's science museum. Because they don't charge admission to it, so you can just wander around learning about shit for free!

Everyone's already covered most of the things I loved about this, so how abotu one final appreciation of Bill Cipher, one of the most mindfuckingly crazy villains of all time.
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That was a fantastic ending in just about every way. Yes, Stan's memory comes back easily, and yes, it's the same device used in the endings of Wall-E and Chuck. But damnit, I was in tears by that end. It managed to hit a bittersweet tone without being too somber and belying its comedic strengths.

You mean… there's a Reverse Time Baby?

I also loved how the theme got a mellow, almost-sad version that played over Stan's memory loss and the various endings. Such a wonderfully done episode in every respect.

He loves her almost as much as he loves the taste of fabric!

Stanley + Stanford
Mabel + Maybe

Those corn muffins were terrible!

The zodiac wheel exorcism had some time cut so that we could get more elegaic moments after the climax. I'd call that a fair trade.

If you didn't crack up at the old "Corkscrew, boomerang, cactus, guinea pig" routine then you're made of sterner stuff than I am.

It says so right in Jesus' personally annotated copy of the Qur'an.

Self-loathing is a universal language that transcends gender. Also, space and time.