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SPOILER ALERT: Henry Francis is a figment of Betty's imagination. She's been in charge of the fight clubs herself the whole time.

SPOILER ALERT: Pete Campbell and Trudy are Cylons.

I've discussed this elsewhere on A.V. Club, but my theory is that the final episode of every sitcom is a murder-suicide of all the main characters and there's an ongoing subtext that points to the killer.

Criticizing 30 Rock for being off the deep end is like criticizing Waiting for Godot for the fact that they never find Godot.

According to his visitors pass, Ramzig's last name is Calrissian.

Payton Manning used it on SNL years ago.

I would include the reference to third base as being "rotary dialed." Though that's an amazing line more likely to get past a young person.

Anderson Cooper doesn't like waffles. There's something very odd about that. Very odd, indeed.

Buddy of mine pointed out this morning that Marshall says "hand stuff", which does not necessarily imply that she's fiddling with him. Valid pont there from Robin. You don't put your hand in the nachos after putting it in your wife; you certainly don't put your hand in your wife after putting it in the buffalo wings.

When I was in my late 20s I knew a stripper who needed a place to crash for a couple weeks because of some thing with her roommate. She stole a whole bunch of my shit. Television, stereo, CDs, jewelry.

Barney fake history flashbacks have occurred in the past, usually for one-off jokes. I can recall Franklin and Jefferson discussing the problems of a Devil's Threeway and the Tale of the Sexless Innkeeper.

Bitch Quinn had me worried. Who serves hummus with dessert?

With any TV sitcom, I like to think that the final episode is destined to feature the murder-suicide of all the main characters and the writers are dropping clues throughout to identify who snaps first. On Big Bang Theory, it's Raj. For Friends, it was Phoebe.

Four episodes doesn't necessarily translate into four weeks passing in the HIMYM world. That wedding could be months from now, or even a year off. In terms of season finale tropes, we have both a wedding and a birth on the horizon. Though between now and then, we need Barney to convince Ted to wear a green dress, the

Big boobs, general cluelessness, prone to fits of unnecessary emotional drama? Surely Rachel dated enough gay guys in her early 20s to learn what a beard is.

I thought this episode was fun and good.

I love when comedies use a thug strut, not so much when it's played dramatically. Inclusion of Run DMC makes it even better.

Fourteen episodes is all that it's taken for New Girl to turn its core concept completely inside out. Throughout the adorkable build-up, we were sold a show about lovable misfit Zooey Deschanel. Now we have a show that works best when Jess is the normal one, inadvertantly and unwillingly sucked into the escalating

Yeah, I noticed that on the recent rerun of Missile Crisis. Enough time had passed that I'd forgotten about her. She does reappear quickly enough next time so as to be more memorable.

Had to be required by the clue. For starters, what kind of travel agency is fully staffed at midnight? I figured the producers had made arrangements for that office to be available in exchange for booking so many intercontinental flights at full fare.