O'Neal, you magnificent bastard, this whole article made my day, from "they should probably watch this all-new episode of Friends before logging into an America Online chat room, cueing up a “Mambo No. 5” CD single on repeat, and cybering the night away" to "May flights of goons sing you to your goon."

The impression I get is that Sims REMEMBERED liking the show, and likes the show in GENERAL, but hasn't been on fire with season 1.

Man, reading that list makes me want to go back and watch again from the start.

Maybe it amounts to the same thing, but I wouldn't say America had fallen in love with Homer Simpson.  Bart, more than Homer, was the guy on the T-shirts who personified rebellious slackerism (and proud of it).  Homer was just a goof.  Sure, it's possible that some viewers identified with him — crappy job, jealous of…

Seriously, someone has to explain to me what the deal is with Courtney Solomon.  How did he get access to this?  And just because he directed the first, why is he producer now?  It's not like he owns the rights.  What connection does he have?

I read somewhere that they actually considered this, but they thought it looked fake so they dropped it.  It WOULD have been hella distracting to have a bunch of CGI "speech fog" in every scene.

Small point:  Tyrion was breaking the news to Sansa AND Shae simultaneously — which is REALLY awkward.  As difficult as it would be for him to explain that they had to get married, and express his regrets and that it wasn't his fault, he would also be telling the woman he loves that he is going to be marrying another,…

That was the most awesomely specific description of a Norman Lear sitcom ever.  Beautifully done.

I see your Post Tenebras Lux and raise you a Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

I got a totally different impression from the main review about what Killian was up to.  Yes, at the end stage, he was happy to have control over supply and demand, but he never intended to be a puppetmaster of an actual terrorist threat.  He was using hte Mandarin to cover up the accidental deaths of people who had…

My impersonation of Hasbro executives watching the last 30 minutes of the movie for the first time:

Yes.  If Mona Lisa Saperstein believes it, that's a ringing endorsement of which Rush can be proud.

Boy I'm sure glad Michael Imperioli was on.  Getting him made a ton of sense.

I could accept Britta's hug of Troy at the end.  I thought the writing and Jacobs both did a good job of walking us through her reaction to what went down.  First, remember that this wasn't "Troy dumps her" so much as "Troy is the first to acknowledge that this isn't working."  Neither of them is super happy in this…

And, looking back, that was the day the internet exploded from joy. 

I hope you don't think I was calling you an idiot!  I just happen to like this story more than I did when he was making smarter decisions.

I don't know if this has been buried in the comments, but a few things about Arya's story that bugged me:

I like what they've done with Robb more now than when he first started.  Since we never saw his battle victories, we just heard about them, him as "raging success in the North" never really meant much to me.

Defintely — it actually made me laugh out loud, the way he was like "Yeah, man, politics — all that betrayal and backstabbing stuff.  So, you hear about anything like that?  Any betrayals or stuff?  That would be, like, relevant to us?  Hm?"

You know, thinking about it now, I think one reason this episode didn't work — and why Jamm as a character and villain has limited appeal — is that the show seems to be regressing to its season one roots, before it changed to become much better.