I suspect Rumplestiltskin is playing his own game. Sometimes it will benefit Regina, other times Emma — but every time, it will benefit him. I think he is a true wild card.

Shouldn't they have called him "Drunkle?" That's what we called mine.

What about the BCS selection show? Who's reviewing that?!?

"what does 'pagan' mean, then?"

Huh. And I always thought Sarah Vowell was totally based on Peppermint Patty.

Huh. Sasha Roiz was in Playmakers with Russell Hornsby. Great job, ESPN!

My memory may be a little hazy, so Portland-area residents help me out here … it seemed to me that Nick and Hank were coming at the Mulholland-Drive dude from the bridge side of the path at Multnomah Falls, which means they would have had to get past him to come back to him. Right?

Sure, if you like Paul Giamatti chewing scenery and Thomas Haden Church playing, well, himself for the umpteenth time. Or, you know, implausible characterizations (yeah, Virginia Madsen totally wants *that* guy). Or wacky hijinks for the sake of wacky hijinks.

I enjoyed Sideways, but my goodness, Bottle Shock was so much better.

Let's think about this, though. This occupation has poorly defined goals and no exit strategery. Does this remind me of any other occupations?

KHAAAAAAAAAAANNN!!!!!!!!!!

Do mine eyes deceive me, or was that Old Chub Jeff was toting into Chez Trobednie?

It's telling that in those first few moments after the full import of exactly what was going on in Happy Valley dawned on me, one of my first thoughts was how long it would take for some wag to co-opt an old Onion article to read "JoePa Forgives Molested Children."

To rank anything above "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "The Jungle" seems like … vanity.

The last TNG ep would have been the best of all the TNG movies.

"apparently to make up for having to live in a Hawaiian paradise for months on end."
I lived in Hawaii for a couple of years when I was little, and the "paradise" part only lasts for the first couple of weeks. After you've seen everything there is to see, you realize quickly that:

Cliffhanger was an unforgivable piece of crap. If they only stuck with John Long's original story … Yosemite! Plane with bales of marijuana going down in the High Sierra! Suspiciously suddenly wealthy climbers!

@Flashman: Is it wrong that I read that as: "I was fisting an AVC newswire intern"?

*your

"Please tell us — in youre own words — exactly what happened on the night in question."