Jim King, why so aggressive? Did you confuse your antidepressants with your irritable bowel syndrome medication again? You're quite obviously full of it. I'd say you have a personality disorder, but that would suggest you have a personality. I may "suck the life out of any room," but you, sir, simply suck.

Great point. The most egregious example I can think of is Mickey Rooney playing the Japanese photographer in "Breakfast at Tiffany's." (If you haven't seen it, DON'T!) Although Peter Sellers in "Murder by Death" is right up there, too. (Also, Peter Sellers in "The Party." Also Peter Sellers in … well, almost…

The first two seasons were terrific. I still rewatch them and smile. The show started getting very slick, and also began losing its way, in Season Three. Now it's a totally different show. At least we'll always have those first two seasons (and two or three standout episodes per season after).

Manohla Dargis' New York Times review of "Tropic Thunder" coined the word "Jewface." It would be nice if we could retire all of these bastardized allusions to"blackface," which detract from a very real and unfortunate episode in history, and diminish a legitimate (and accurate) word.

I mostly agree with you, but I think that Bernadette going back to the store and buying that comic book was totally realistic. I mean, if you were in her situation, and you damaged something that was very valuable to a close friend of yours, and didn't want that person to know, and the only way to replace that thing…

Maybe I just have really bad taste, but I thought this was the most enjoyable episode of TBBT in months. It was sort of a return to form, after what's been a slick, overly processed, but dull and mostly laughless season. Sheldon-Penny plots are always the best; Leonard was nicely in the background; Amy's subplot was…

Here are a few more wildly original TBBT episodes we'll no doubt see in the months ahead: Howard and Raj are asked to babysit a colleague's infant son for the day; they take the baby out to a park in Pasadena and promptly forget about him. Laughs and craziness ensue! In another episode, Howard tells Bernadette that it…

That's hilarious and fascinating. I totally thought you were joking, until I clicked on the link.

Both.

I think Sookie was easily her best role. She was sweet, sincere, smart, and funny, and she never felt like a one-dimensional TV character. She felt real. The show could have turned her into an underdog or luckless sidekick, but it never did. Sookie was always her own person.

This is an excellent overview. I was never a big fan of M&M, but it was at least watchable in its earlier incarnation, and I enjoyed the retro, early-1990s feel of it. But I've just lost interest in it this season, and for all the reasons Todd mentions above. I want this show to survive, because I really like the…

That bothered me too. But Metcalf is actually listed in the credits, so now I'm confused.

It's not just that she is horribly unfunny (although that's certainly a big part of it), but that she gives one the distinct impression that she has a rancid personality. There is just something about her. Like she is an awful person who pretends on camera to be a nice person, but most of the time can't even be…

For much of its run, My Name is Earl was a piss-poor version of My Name is Earl.

Most redundant sentence of the year, "a cynical cash-grab from the Seth MacFarlane factory." The phrase "Seth MacFarlane factory" immediately implies cynical cash-grab, thank you very much. Also, I don't love "The Goldbergs," but there is no way that its pilot qualifies as worst of the year. It was merely criminally…

Good riddance. I despise this show (although the first season was pretty good). But in later seasons the show soured to the point that it was unwatchably misanthropic, implausible, crude, cruel, and just completely obnoxious. Quite possibly the most self-satisfied show in the history of television. It thought it was…

This has never bothered me, because 1) Penny's apartment looks much smaller than Leonard and Sheldon's; perhaps even a third of the size. 2) Leonard and Sheldon moved in together, as has been established, when they were much younger and just starting out at the university. And 3) obviously they enjoy living together,…

We've seen Sheldon's sister on the show (in a very lame season-one episode), but never his brother. If said brother ever appears, who should play him?

"There is something mildly amusing about the thought of an entire season of television being devoted to the arc of an academic trying to get a single paper published."

Alex (the character played by Margo Harshman; formerly - or currently? - Sheldon's assistant) would have been the perfect girlfriend for Leonard, and for all the reasons you mention. I would have even believed them as a couple (which is more than I can say for L&P). But I guess the writers' decided against tempting…