I watched VM for the first time last fall, around the same time Terriers S1 was airing, so the similarities are even more pronounced for me.

@Dorian - I thought the first time we saw the banner was when Buster returns home from the hospital after losing his hand, and it says "Welcome Home, Buster" before he accidentally rips down the "Welcome Home". I don't think we see it before then, but it's been a while since I watched S2, so I could be wrong.

IIRC it's "Me quick, want slow!"

I still wonder what the "You're Killing Me, Buster" banner was originally printed for.

They do several different things depending on the episode.

"It is especially interesting to see the way the old guard who've been working in television for ages (Artie) interacts with and fears the up-and-coming stars that start to move into the show in later seasons (especially Jon Stewart). "

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I think they even mention that they don't have the money to send Buster back to college. I guess they never really refer to his education as the series goes on because none of it is remotely useful.

I love the narration. It's funny in its own right, and it's necessary to keeping up the rapid-fire pace that makes this show so great.

Or like he's leaving out an important fact in educating the children by forgetting cocaine.

Both versions of the joke are hilarious. It's hilarious that GOB thinks "candy" will sanitize the conversation for the children, and it's also hilarious that he tries to think of a cover-up and the best he can do is "cocaine", as if the whores doing the tricks for anything besides money is OK.

@Nathan Ford's Evil Twin— for a recent example, Bob's Burgers really took off with episode 6 (Cabbing transvestites to pay for Tina's birthday paryt).

Just put on the one where Matthew goes to Japan (or doesn't) and caught this line:

True, and Homer is a fuckup in a lot of ways. But just like it's his wife and kid and he pays for the delivery, he still puts a roof over his family's heads and food on the table, and I just feel that they are in the wrong to disrespect him inside his home— especially since they don't have any good intentions to him…

(should read "constantly came over")

The only time? I think Homer kept his mouth shut for Marge's sake far more often than he should have. If my wife's sisters came over to do nothing but criticize me in mean-spirited, unnecessary ways and undermine me in front of my wife and children, I would tell them to get the hell out of my house until they learn to…

It reminds me of that Onion article about the inexorable march of time claiming Jerry Mathers, with the same sense of universal despair.

If "The Killing" didn't want to invite "Twin Peaks" comparisons, then it should have tried something besides "Season-long mystery about pretty girl killed in Pacific Northwest where anyone could be a suspect".

Well, not watching the show is definitely going to confuse you, yeah, but she was never in high school— she was a college intern when the series started.