I don't know if I'll ever have kids, but I figure it must be worth it somehow, or people wouldn't keep doing it. And then we'd go extinct, and then there would be no more TV.

Children
This is show is delightful, and I'm glad I started watching it this season, but man, it makes having children look like the most frustrating, inconvenient thing ever. But maybe that's accurate.

There's always money in the banana suit.

Craig T. Nelson did a great job of playing the dancing scenes… Completely straight-faced in his admiration of Gay Tony.

Digging a hole of lies
I was just waiting for Crosby and Jasmine to get busted in a lie by the principal. Do you think the apparent spider-ring proposal seen in the teaser for next week is for real?

Nothing says relevant like puppets screwing and murdering each other.

Yeah, this episode was loaded with comedy. I laughed more than I did at the previous three episodes combined.

He also developed some new superheroes for Mark Waid's Boom! Studios. It's fortunate that he's not scripting any of them, because an 87-year-old man doesn't exactly have his finger on the pulse of 21st century comics readers.

I was there!
I was at the NY Comic Con panel when they announced this. It was an hour-long panel, they started 10 minutes late, and then Stan Lee left after the first five minutes. And then everyone in the audience left. Excelsior!

Godspeed, Weinberg
So will it be the Jimmy Vivino Seven now? Who will be the new seventh?

Pepe and Penelope will go on a crazy adventure that takes them from France to New York City, and eventually Penelope will learn to love Pepe and they'll have little skunk-cat babies.

My mother enjoyed Jersey Boys but felt there was too much strong language. I can't wait to see if they clean it up to get the film a PG-13.

Detective Cho's death
Did she really just get shot in the face with her own telekinetically-controlled gun? I didn't expect the show to get so dark, so fast. It has the word "Family" in the title!

I was expecting the consequences of Crosby's drunkenness to be much worse. When Renee let it slide, I thought it seemed unrealistic but I relieved that she didn't react more angrily. So I guess I like Crosby all right.

As a viewer who went to high school in the late 90s, I immediately knew the show was a failure when the entire pilot episode went by without a single flashback to the kids listening to "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba.

Throwing candles at ghosts
I hope they draw inspiration from the classic NES game "Adventures in the Magic Kingdom."

I was actually relieved by the indication that this will be more of a "case of the week" show than a mythology-heavy show. I don't know if I could handle another Ramaldi-style storyline.

"I highly doubt that!"
I think this episode was the funniest Haley's ever been, with her incredulousness at both Claire and Alex.

Don't forget to come back to this post in 10 years to talk about how you're still pining over her.

Thank you, Dr. Zizmor!