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Gruntled and Turbed
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G: Breaking bad's episode tonight "51", Newsroom's "5/1"
T: They're doing that thing where they mimic the name of something better/more popular to trick us into accidentally picking them by mistake
G: Aaron Sorkin is now the Asylum of tv-shows

G: Fuck you, the Killing.

G: Fuck you, the Killing.

T: Just a nitpick — great episode, great writeup — but I'm pretty sure that Tamara said she prefers "Tinkle-Belle" (which yes is a play on Tinker Bell, so understandable you might type that)
G: This show is clever with bits of word play like that, yet my favorite quick moment in this one is probably when Sadie starts

T: Just a nitpick — great episode, great writeup — but I'm pretty sure that Tamara said she prefers "Tinkle-Belle" (which yes is a play on Tinker Bell, so understandable you might type that)
G: This show is clever with bits of word play like that, yet my favorite quick moment in this one is probably when Sadie starts

G: Tits are all well and good, but you get tits on any premium channel, showtime, starz, what-have-you, this is HBO —
T: So where is the incest?!
G: and that's why it doesn't feel like a proper HBO property.

G: Tits are all well and good, but you get tits on any premium channel, showtime, starz, what-have-you, this is HBO —
T: So where is the incest?!
G: and that's why it doesn't feel like a proper HBO property.

T: You make a very good point. Last week we were discussing whether or not Josh was supposed to be reminiscent of Sasha's father, like a before image
G: Certainly seemed to be hinting at TV-style closeted gay; "You're like a girl … er, I meant that in a good way"
T: But now you've made me wonder if the character he most

T: You make a very good point. Last week we were discussing whether or not Josh was supposed to be reminiscent of Sasha's father, like a before image
G: Certainly seemed to be hinting at TV-style closeted gay; "You're like a girl … er, I meant that in a good way"
T: But now you've made me wonder if the character he most

G: Is that irony or the slippery slope of typecasting?

G: Is that irony or the slippery slope of typecasting?

G: Is it possible to move Homeland to a better channel? I'm really afraid that the showtime curse will get it too…

G: Is it possible to move Homeland to a better channel? I'm really afraid that the showtime curse will get it too…

G: While I honestly had no idea when watching the episode that it was a real boy band
T: And a network mandated tie-in no less
G: but Lacey's love for the Varsity Fan Club in the Middleman episode Boyband Superfan Interrogation surely qualifies
T: Best turning lemons into lemonade example of making a fun episode from

G: While I honestly had no idea when watching the episode that it was a real boy band
T: And a network mandated tie-in no less
G: but Lacey's love for the Varsity Fan Club in the Middleman episode Boyband Superfan Interrogation surely qualifies
T: Best turning lemons into lemonade example of making a fun episode from

T: Sasha's father as a young man

T: Sasha's father as a young man

G: Close though, the appropriate response is "Awesomesauce" (however we'll also the Han Solo-ish "I know" if done cockily enough)

G: Close though, the appropriate response is "Awesomesauce" (however we'll also the Han Solo-ish "I know" if done cockily enough)

G: The 5th Element is BORON! Learn to read a fucking periodic table already