You've made me realize that ER was the first show — long before Lost! — that pulled me in with emotionally intense serialized storytelling, only to fail to follow through again and again, in frustrating fashion.

Excellent points, well said.  I don't think of Lincoln's appearance at the end of the episode as a "twist," really, despite the show's reputation for that kind of thing.  It was more like a proper climax — it isn't just that "oh, these people are all dead!" so much as it is "these people are ALL the dead — it's the…

Awesome stuff!  This comments thread is going to keep me happy all day.

Was looking for Rilke myself, but for Archaic Bust of Apollo.  Damn, best closing lines EVER.

Excellent insight into, er, whatever it was the poem was about.

Dog is barking — Do he bite?

There aren't enough likes in the world. 

When I was younger, I would have immediately gone to either Prufrock or something by ee cummings (probably somewhere i have never travelled).  But lately, the one that sticks out for me over and over is Auden's gut-wrenching "Musee des Beaux Arts," inspired by Brueghel's "Fall of Icaras" painting.

I like how the interview ends with this rambling grumbling anti-climax.  "Yeah, whatever, people do all kinds o' crazy shit.  Whattareyagonnado?"

I tend to agree.  I said as much after the first episode, when people immediately started this wailing.  Were all Harmon episodes classics?  Far from it!  I thought the entirety of season three was much weaker than prior seasons.  I thought the changes to Abed's character from the start of the show were very much for…

Such a great show.  I have never seen Jeffrey Tambor do anything as fascinating as what he did with Hank Kingsley.  The man embodies the banality of evil — evil as pathetic and boorish, rather then fiendishly charismatic.  He's just a selfish, shallow, stupid, egotist.  And it's hysterical to watch.

Exposition very nearly ruined the West Wing for me, after I went to law school.  I'd always really enjoyed the show, but once I went to law school and discovered some basics about the structure of the American government (which, to be fair, 75% of which I probably would have learned if I'd paid more attention in…

I wondered how they would approach that.  The show can't really endorse casual violence, it's too nice a show.  And while Ron is manly, he's also confident enough about his manliness that he doesn't actually need to show it with physical force.  Councilman Jamm didn't pose a physical threat and this wasn't…

I had the same thought.  I wasn't able to watch last night, will have to catch it on Demand or something, but I did think to myself "Eh, nbd, this was supposed to be a lame episode anyway."

Nice closing line!

Wow, they fixed the ONE THING THAT WASN'T WRONG.

They gave you the technology  You could re-build him.

I just want to point out that every time I watch Revenge of the Sith and I see Yoda crawling through ducts after fighting the Emperor, I make the same joke:  "Out to the coast, come.  A few laughs, we will have."

I now really want to see a Bob's Burgers in which Gene says "It feels bad being so mad at a song that’s saying,'“We’re going to have a nice evening.'"

Now I really want to see this movie, but only because it's so rare that one gets to say "It's like that Richard E. Grant movie, but crazier."