"'Went to store real quick. Love forever, Bob.' That's a perfectly good note. That doesn't sound drunk at all."

Happy to see Mickey back. "I threw the key into the ocean!" "You what?" "I didn't want the birds to get in!"
"Ohhh god, I'm gonna barf!"

"Yeah, we'll try anything."
"I tried shrimp at my aunt's house!"

how for some people, fictional or in real life, the only happy ending they will get is when it just ends.

It isn't a line, per se, but the end of Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares has always stuck with me.

It's pretty much what you expect from the 80s, though.

It's not clear from my comment, but I was more sad about Human Target's having ended than anything else. That said, I understood what the second season's dynamics were meant to accomplish more than I enjoyed them.

Not really a whole song, but one of my favorite deliveries: "I still got two out of five, I still got two out of five, I still got two out of five sexy parts!"

Part of why I don't think it's actual hostility. More the same impulse that leads Bob to balk at calling Teddy his best friend. Still fun, though.

Agree that this felt like one of those episodes where the plots were primarily backdrops for jokes, but between Louise “coming up,” Teddy crowing that Bob was his bestie, Louise’s “I love that woman,” and Bob being called “fat Burt Reynolds,” I don’t mind that at all.

Still sad about Human Target.

Yeah, for my part I wouldn't have minded the deviation from the comics so much if it weren't for the wholly beatific quality you point out in Gary's acceptance of events. Just a bit of hesitation, even at the very moment Mnemoth became visible, might have made it all easier to believe. But the rest of the episode was…

Sleater-Kinney, nice. Have my fingers crossed hard they'll play Coachella; otherwise, no CA tour dates…

"It averaged 2.6 million viewers an episode in 2008, its first year,
jumped to 4.5 million its second year, and this fall 10.6 million people
watched the first episode of Season Seven the night it premiered. Its fans are fanatical…" Who on earth are these people? Most everyone I know who watched the show bailed. Or…

"Where's Tina? Crying into her butt?"
“You are all condemned to eternal damnation—in here—with me— This is—Jeff!”
“And it’s okay that I’m jealous and terrible.” “No, no.” “Fix yourself!”

“Tina’s already feeling heartbroken right now. If you tell her the truth, she’s gonna feel heartbroken and dumb.”

Everyone looks so uncomfortable in that header image.

Off-topic, but I quite like how flatly that line reads at the end of this particular article. Very Eh, quit your whining.

"[B]eneath all the casual sex, drugs, and violence, I found solace in Ellis’ portraits of isolation. His protagonists all want to connect to something meaningful, something beyond the sparkling facade, but it remains just out of reach. As a young man grappling with alcoholism, parental divorce, and failing…

You know, I actually liked a few of Jet's singles. But I quickly stopped admitting as much for all the scorn it got me.