I thought that too, but she's pretty explicit, saying to Real Emily, "You didn't need to kill him." 

Remember when Kevin was an ace free throw shooter, master at making chili, and a WSOP bracelet winner?

I still feel Emily (the false one) is is really off and working against the drive of the story.  It leapt out at me when she chided the real Emily about killing the investigator.

Honestly, a Glenn Beck Simpsons couldn't be worse than what we've got now…

Good lord Julia Roberts looks like a drag queen.  Is it still camp when you're TRYING for camp?

I'm starting to wonder if Whitney Cummings actual acts in this, or has anything scripted.  Her "lines" feel like her free associating her comedy routines, and when we see her reacting or laughing to somebody else, it feels so ODD.  Like I'm not seeing her reacting as a character, so much as her laughing between…

In watching this, I already see a massive flaw: is there anyone in their right mind who would regard Kristen Stewart to be fairer than the Charlize Theron?  For me there's not even a comparison, so it's an absurdity on the film's part.

I can't wait til December when "Dragon Tattoo" streets and kicks a dildo up the asses of all those Twilight twats.

Fear not, last I heard Tom Batiuk was in remission, so we should be good for a few more years of melodramatic crap from him…

Perhaps he realized everything he had built his life around preaching was a cold, cold lie and took his own life Hemingway style.

Can you imagine what Parenthood would look like on HBO or Showtime? 

At the AVClub, there can never be enough nitpicking.  ;)

Good point.  I can see myself swinging by the card aisle after work to see just what those cards run for.  I'd imagine the custom yearlys cost more than your generic "Happy Birthdays."

Uh, you do realize where you're at, right?

Random Observations

I give this episode an A based purely on the briefest glimpse of "Vertigo" in HD (put this on blu-ray now dammit!)

Remember when Marge joked about Fox so gradually turning to soft core porn they hadn't noticed?  It's a gradual change, but stunning to compare classic Simpsons to today.  Today it's referencing shite like Ke$ha and Avatar.  What ever happened to the show that referenced Citizen Kane, Sorcerer, and obscure Monty…

When the fuck did "Treehouse of Horror" turn into a movie parody anthology?  They seriously feel like something by Friedberg and Seltzer.

More and more as I think about it, I've begun to believe that Emily may be the first instance of a living MacGuffin.  She's a walking plot device, she's what sets everything in motion, yet her iciness (or the limitations of the actress playing her) results in much less a person than an abstraction, to the point that…

And naturally my area imax just converted from 15/70mm film to motherfucking digital Liemax.  Dark Knight on film was glorious, especially the Imax format scenes, and then Inception, also shot partially in 70mm, looked like a blah, muddy mess.