We'd wondered who was keeping Sims company in order to prevent him from swallowing his own tongue to end his torment. ;)

See above post.  But yes, as of right now it's the worst reviewed in the site's history, despite having fierce competition from Heroes, V, The Neighbors, Whitney, The Playboy Club, and the first season of Hell on Wheels.  Not saying that there aren't worse shows out there, but the site doesn't usually bother to review…

Not at all.  Put all the characters on Dr. Phil or Jerry Springer, and watch comedic gold pour forth.

"Why a spoon cousin, why not an axe or a sw-"
"Because it's dull you TWIT!  It'll hurt more!!!"

I dunno, maybe it is the Boston thing, but on some level I think the show may have crossed a threshold this week, giving up its previous "so bad its entertaining" status, and entering "so bad it just plain sucks" status.

He still hasn't published a second book, so it'd just be the one crappy book. ;)  Given how inept and screwy his followers have turned out to be, what exactly keeps them unified in the absence of his overwhelming/non-existent charisma?  They've spent most of the season sitting around in a mansion waiting for something…

Several people have been asking if this is the worst reviewed season of a show in the history of the site.  Did a little digging, and came up with a list of the worst of the worst.  Ground rules - used a 4.0 GPA scale (D- isn't an official grade in a lot of places, but I treated it like a 0.7) and made the cut-off for…

And I'm sensing some inconsistency - the cultist, who may be all of 90lbs soaking wet, kills the reporter with a single stab to the abdomen.  Joe gets stabbed in the same area by his ex-wife last week, and then gets a fork jabbed in there a few times for good measure this week, and all it does is give him a slow leak?…

Sadly, the same cannot be said for the show.  We get a whole 'nother season of this tripe.  Is it too glaringly obvious to think Joe will get away, heal up, and begin building a new cult before next season?  There's no show if they kill either him or Ryan (unless we're to believe the nanny from hell will take over…

Right, they're all in chronological order.  He starts the movie in that suit, and then it's the last suit he wears after they try to blow up his car and the arm catches fire.  The only shot of him after that is in San Diego, where he's just wearing a blue shirt with a yellow collar and cuffs, no tie or jacket.

I think they're all actually in chronological order. :)

But he eventually puts the pants on.  I think that's the suit in the center row, 3rd from the right.

I'm tempted to go back and rewatch the film to see if they're all in chronological order.  I have a hunch they are, given the burns on the arm of the last suit.

Meh.  It's everywhere and nowhere really - where ever it needs to be in order to service the plot, but usually implied to be somewhere in a fairly populated area of "middle America."

True.  I'm not sure if the reviewer's trying to imply that it would be an almost perfect overlap, or a completely non-existent overlap.  Other than that there's not that many ways for a Venn diagram that only uses two groups to be visually interesting.

True, tricks only really work on people who don't know how or why they work.

Come on now, let Tress be.  She's funny as hell, and every voice actor can't have quite as many different voices in their toolbox as Harry Shearer or Mel Blanc.

They squeezed most of the pathos out of them years ago, with a lot of them being really great episodes.  But at this point we've just seen it so many times, and there's never any real sense that they might follow through (sure, they split up Milhouse's parents, and they killed off Maude Flanders, but those alone…

The Bible as read by Larry King. ;)

Groundlings weren't exactly upper-class snobs with lots of money to blow.