Elliot demonstrates time and time again that she's whay you'd call "Book smart." She's a good doctor, but she misses critical clues and makes dumb mistakes all the time, because oh how academic her learning process is.

Yeah, it's just TV, but Bill Lawrence hated that convention. He wanted to subvert it, but the network (go figure) wouldn't let him.

I disagree. There were lots of those moments in the early seasons, but I don't think the reset button was ever fully deployed. These are all baby steps, and by season 4, he clearly respects her at least a little bit.

Continuing with the spoilers…

I've got very little to add this week, as Myles covered everything I would have wanted to discuss, and I agree with his judgments and reasoning in both episodes.

I think by "out of space" she was referring to the airplane bathroom in which Pierce nailed her.

So Dan, are you really in every episode?

The "going back in time" thing was what stuck with me throughout my youth, but going back and watching this as an adult, it's viscerally painful the way Big Pete buys into Endless Mike's description of "love" as an exclusively sexual conquest. You know that Pete's intentions and feelings run deeper than that, but he…

Two episodes a week, with no breaks, covering 271 episodes (let's assume that "One for the Road" will get a week to itself regardless), means that we'll be coming back here once a week for a minimum of 136 weeks (just short of two and a half years). Inevitably, of course, there will be breaks, so let's assume three…

I can't not.

Like I said, I wasn't alive back then, but it doesn't ring false for me that there are no women accountants. Given that the show later on introduced a very strong three-dimensional woman character trying to establish herself in the world of business, I'm quite willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here.

In the context of a season 1 episode, "Friends, Romans, Accountants" didn't seem TOO weird to me. If there was an off feeling, Todd probably came closest to figuring out why. But the sexual politics didn't seem over-the-top or out-of-place. Rich douchebags taking presumptuous and entitled attitudes towards women in…

Oh, I disagree. These days, if the punchline had been The Tree Of Life (or maybe Black Swan), I think even a lowbrow audience can be expected to have at least heard of it.

Is that the one with the poker game? Ooh, I love that one.

NORM!

I definitely felt like Gonzo was the biggest beneficiary to the intra-season workovers. His nose in season 1 just plain looks wrong.

I liked this episode - though probably not as much as Donna did. One thing that bugged me especially was how Marshall spent the whole episode isolated from the rest of the cast. His overdramatic screams through the skylight were funny enough, but failed to redeem a story that mostly fell flat.

Ted could definitely rock an Arduino board and make that happen.

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