I can't see how they're going to rank the individual songs, but I could rank the seasons, best to less great:

So when you're happy ("hurray!")
…or sad ("awww…")
…or frightened ("Yeek!")
…or mad ("darn")
…or excited ("Wow!")
…or glad
An interjection starts a sentence right!

Yeah, the whole thing was clumsy and poorly done but in fairness to Sofia, she ended the bit by storming off in a telegraphed huff and saying (paraphrased) "this is why I don't do car shows any more!" I've noticed that the Vine vids this morning have left that part out.

"Kid who came out of playhouse via red door was holding Scarecrow Joe's drone."

Exactly. That A- rating is incredibly generous. The show still makes zero sense (entire NYC neighborhoods have been infected, yet the city isn't under a state of emergency? I lived in NYC during 9-11, and the entire city was closed off within hours, including the bridges and tunnels.) I keep waiting for the…

Thank you. Those were some MIGHTY calm kids, given that their monster mom was just killed and this new guy looks just about as scary.

That's actually the Scooby-Doo route. (With Jim as Scooby and Eph as Fred.) Eichorst is one ep away from complaining about those "meddling kids…"

Except that he had to realize, having met Eichorst as a vampire, that he was different from the worker drone vamps. Plus Setrakian's in his 90's! Why is no one in the Scooby crew pointing out that he shouldn't be fighting alone?

JS, I kinda agree. That last scene just seemed a little misogynistic and exploitative, even for this show. Not to mention that it happened in the shitty basement of Fangtasia, even though Eric and Pam are billionaires at this point who could have a fortified mansion anywhere they wanted.

AJ, amen to that. Thanks, Carrie, for recaps that recognized both the good and the increasingly idiotic plots from this sinking ship of a show (as opposed to, say, The Strain recaps, which inexplicably keep giving that dopey show "A" grades).

Yes, Bill was THE WORST. First, he decides to commit suicide because he can't give Sookeh the chilluns, even though millions of human couples every day can't have kids and somehow deal (through IVF, surrogacy, whatever). Then he makes Jessica an orphan because: Sookeh.

100% agree. So many people seem to think interviews on late-night talk shows are designed to ferret out Deep Thoughts. They're there to sell something! Frankly I love Jimmy's genuine enthusiasm and playfulness instead of pretending to talk seriously about the latest Marvel or Transformers movie. The Tonight Show —…

Oh, Christ. People on SNL break all the time! Bill Hader constantly cracked up, and no one gave him shit for it. I'm a little sick of the decade-old criticism of Fallon for breaking, as if SNL sketches were Chekhovian short stories that Could Not Be Interrupted.

To the AVC's credit, though, this article is a pitch-perfect example of finely calibrated sarcasm. Kudos to Sean O'Neal, who perfectly captured the "Girl, please" that was running through my head when I first read this story.

Didn't Barbie figure out that Big Jim shot her? Or was it Junior? I know *someone* did, and confronted him about it. Yet no one told the general population, or even DJ Sheriff Phil. Not that it would have mattered — within one episode/day, they would have forgotten all about it…

We do still have payphones in NYC, although they're planning to convert them to internet hotspots. Phone books are pretty much extinct, though.

It's interesting that this show is airing at the same time as the real world Ebola outbreak. The constant press coverage about that (and acute public fear) makes it harder to accept that the general apathy in The Strain could ever happen. Let's face it, MSNBC would be all over the missing bodies, not to mention the…

Smear-Gel, great list. And amen to the insanity of Phil's plot. He was a chill stoner DJ hanging with Dodee three weeks ago, and now he's a crazed murderous psycho who was shot in the chest two days ago and is now knocking down windmills and fighting bigger guys without pain. Okay…

Speaking of the Dark Ages, I'm a NYer and I was stunned when Nora was at the payphone on the street and there was a full-sized PHONE BOOK hanging there. And then she used it! I honestly haven't seen a phone book at a payphone since the last century. Not being ageist here, 'cause I'm old, but do they still *print*…

Re: Eph's wife. Of course when your (clearly sober) CDC SCIENTIST ex-husband tells you that there's an infection roiling NYC and to get the hell out, you stay there. "I don't know…should we go to Vermont…?" **twirls hair, has second glass of wine with bitchy BFF**