NORM!

Hey, thanks! That means a lot coming from you, because I've really been enjoying your contributions to Pete & Pete as well.

Wow, that's even more awkward than some of the Larry Sanders interview segments.

Darlene eventually seeks out Artie for his advice. “You gotta use what you’re born with,” he says. “Now look at me: I’ve got a face that would crack a mirror. That’s why I’m a producer.” If she wants to pose, she should do it for herself, not Creepy Uncle Hank. “Then I can do it… for myself,” she says happily. “I…

Yeah, I know that the A.V. Club sometimes uses comment counts as metrics for determining how much traction a feature has, so here's my obligatory "I don't have anything to add, but these reviews are great, so keep them up!" comment, too.

I forget, was Dr. Miller the annoying surgeon from S2, or was she Courtney Cox's character in S8? Either way, yikes!!!

"Broadcast Nudes" isn't a pun; it's an instruction.

The world may never know.

Aw, thanks!

Yeah, that one's classic. Anytime I walk into a room and get a hearty greeting, I deploy that line.

Yeah, I nearly forgot that this was the first time we learn about the regularity of their cold, angry divorce sex.

So many of the best lines in this series look average, or mildly amusing on the page, and then the actors sell it with brilliant facial expressions. Jenkins' obvious delight when delivering that turnaround escalates that to one of the funniest lines of a very funny episode.

When I was watching these episodes the other night, I was struck by how enjoyable they were despite not being extraordinary like some of the other episodes we've seen so far. They're not as emotional or ambitious as "My Old Lady," "My Blind Date," or "My Bed Banter & Beyond," but nonetheless, they're a great deal of…

Interesting LotR comparison, because in the books (shamefully cut from the movie), after destroying the ring and defeating Sauron, the Hobbits have to go back to the shire and deal with trouble at home. That looks like exactly what's happening now; having quashed all external threats, now they deal with perhaps the…

I'm guess, based on his dislike of the resolution to the plot about Chuck and Sarah keeping secrets, that McGee isn't married. Sometimes, when a couple has played out every iteration of an argument possible over a recent period of days or weeks, the only path to stability is for one partner or the other to swallow…

I just got caught up on these last four episodes tonight.

I just rewatched the one I described above (turns out the whole series is on Youtube). It's still pretty unsettling, actually, but not overtly scary.

I think the writers wanted to do more unhappy endings than they were actually allowed to. I don't know if this is true, but I heard at one point that Nickelodeon got complaints from parents about AYAOTD when their kids got really freaked out about episodes in which the protagonists failed (I don't think anyone ever…

Although I thought it made for really compelling anthology television, no episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? ever really scared me, except for one. I believe it was the first one, with the mystery specs. The glasses that, when worn, revealed that our world was teeming with otherwise-invisible people with creepy…

I thought "Endless" referred to his tenure at the high school, presumably from being held back so much. Was that stated explicitly in "Tool or Die," or am I fabricating memories again?