To be fair, Once Upon a Time has needed to be put out of its misery for quite some time, even if it wasn't exactly high-quality TV when it started.  Knowing ABC/Disney it's another one of those "product-synergy" decisions, as the show publicizes versions of fairy tale characters which closely resemble those found in…

2.1 for the penultimate episode.  They were as high as 3.3 at one point.

The 15% was bugging me as it didn't seem to capture my memory of the ratings, so I went back and looked.  The 15% drop we were talking about was the 2.8 to 2.4 key demo decline seen between the episode that aired after they renewed it (#7) and the finale.  2.8 wasn't their highwater mark, and 2.4 wasn't their nadir…

Several characters have gotten Sheldon to "stretch" over the years, Amy more than Penny, and Leonard quite a bit as well.  And no, the "post-closure" "I love you" from Sheldon to Penny does not a Daphne and Niles make.  They're friends, which is a big step for Sheldon, but that's it.  Given how much time and effort it…

@ Chris - I dare say those audience members who earnestly enjoy this show deserve to be insulted.  Heck they'll probably enjoy that too, given how much of an insult to everyone's intelligence this show is.

Has a network ever done that?  Announced a show's renewal mid-season, and then changed their mind and cancelled it during the off-season?  I imagine there's probably major issues and financial penalties with attempting it, depending on how and when they allocate their budget, sign contracts, et al.

There's also kind of a "why do more people watch/like a show I don't like/respect, instead of watching my favorite instead?" vibe.  Or at least that seems to be true of a lot of the Community fans, and not just towards TBBT.

Yeah, she's been rather shitty to him for a lot of the season - they need to either a) figure out the chemistry b) put them back in the "friends" category or c) we'll have to live with it, since they've been marked as the show's "great love," and sitcom physics demand that they wind up together.

Simpson-ized Newhart.  Classic.

In some ways there was a little retread - I seem to recall an episode where Penny finally goes to Leonard's lab and finds watching him do "science-y stuff," work with lasers, holographic projects, et al. to be a turn-on.

Rowan gets bonus points for having physical timing that even surpasses his verbal timing.  The "boarding school roll call" and "welcome to hell" sketches are hysterical, but several of his non-verbal Bean routines are legitimate contenders for the title of funniest thing ever put on film - I'm especially fond of his…

He's in that rarefied air of comic actors who've carried (or help carry) two successful long-running shows, and that's a pretty short list.  His last two sitcoms ('92 and '97) were both critically acclaimed, but got cancelled after one season.  Sorry your exposure to television history is so short.

My night = made.

Bob Newhart could still make me smile by reading the phone book. There have been precious few comics that can melt your heart and make you laugh at the same time.

Sure, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls knows it's schlock, it's shlock taken to the level of campy yet explicit satire.  Russ Meyer deserves most of the credit, as it was really his brainchild.  Ebert knew Meyer from several film festivals, and helped write the film as a send-up of some of the inanities of late 60's…

Bacon's salary is reported to be $175K/episode, so they're limited in terms of the cost-cutting they can do.  I've not yet heard them leak Purefoy's salary, but knowing this show, I'm highly dubious that he's actually dead, which means we've likely not seen the last of him (nor is FOX done paying him).

You'll note that the fact that most winners don't show up to collect their Razzies doesn't stop them from awarding them.  We don't really care if he doesn't care.  Frankly, if he did, it'd be a bonus.  We'd get to watch a hyper-defensive Veena Sud-style meltdown.

You found Pennywise scary?  He's ridiculous.  My favorite roasting of that movie: http://thatguywiththeglasse…

Chris, you seem to want to keep referring to it as a "cop show."  It's not a procedural.  Hell, Wikipedia doesn't even consider it a "police television drama," and they have a pretty comprehensive list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

If only.