I agree with Esophagus - I don't get the hate for Chelsea Lately. It's not at all my kind of show, but for what it is, I think it is extremely (yes, I said it) well done. Which is to say, it doesn't really pander to its audience, it's relatively fresh, it's a fun counter to more traditional, A-list talk shows, it's…

I actively despise Jenny McCarthy. I don't exactly know why. Sure, she's talentless and nasty, but there are other talentless and nasty people. At this point, it's irrational on my part. But that doesn't stop me despising her.

She was excellent at the end of Crawl Space - absolutely one of the best moments of television, ever. But in that later episode when she tells Walt she is waiting for his cancer to come back - a scene praised on this site and elsewhere - I felt she screwed up the moment by overdelivering her lines. She went too big,…

Seriously, I don't mean to be mean here (okay, maybe I do, a little), but does anyone really care what Anna Gunn does after BB? She was easily the weakest link in the otherwise magnificent BB ensemble. Yes, maybe you can blame the writers who, by positioning Skylar as the voice of reason made her an antagonist to both…

Totally agree. Some TBBT episodes come in at under 20 minutes - at 19 and change, actually, and that's COUNTING Chuck Lorre's vanity card and the end credit sequence. So, yes, TBBT is shorter than a lot of other sitcoms.

Really interesting, insightful, well written comment. Thanks FredII.

Ha ha - perfect!!

I posted a version of this comment on the Deadline site, but can we at least have fun pondering how different writers and/or directors would handle the Lance treatment?

Pity there is already a movie called 'Balls of Fury.' Would have been a good title for this film.

Breaking Bad bear on bare Bob's Burgers…

Or 'Art Crawl.'

"parasitic" is a great word for Zmuda, although "pathological liar" works, too.

I haven't read all of the comments - at 725 and counting that would be impossible - but I think there are a lot of different factors at play here, only one of which is the demise of the broadly popular black sitcom. Another factor is the demise of the broadly popular sitcom at all (rare exceptions still exist like MF…

Couldn't agree more. The insistent sidelining of Cary drives me crazy. Czuchry should get his own spin-off show - he could certainly carry his own show. Or he should just quit this show and be in something where his talent is realized.

Very good interview. I never really got into this show - I may give it another shot, though - but I love Sherman-Palladino's candor, humor and gutsiness in interviews. This one didn't disappoint, either.

Wow, 391 comments on a TBBT episode, That must be a record for this show on this site. Does this number mirror the show's massive ratings surge the last two weeks, or is it just that this episode touched a lot of nerves?

No mention of Penny's threesome joke ('If I pick up a guy, and he picks up a girl, and we all leave together…')? I kind of liked that one. Penny should dump Leonard and return to her old life of picking up multiple people in bars. The closest thing she has to a threesome these days is getting a bikini wax with Amy and…

Oliver Sava takes exception to the Amy character's assertion that comic book conventions are 'made for 12 year olds.' But it is Sava who is making a mistake of logic here. While Sava may be correct that conventions are designed for adults, it is entirely logically consistent for Amy to think (as do many others who,…

Whatever happened to Shannon Elizabeth's career, exactly?

Yeah, I also read it as 'motherfucking.' Took me a moment to realize what MF really stood for. And then I was oddly disappointed.