Yes, "Complaint Box" is my all-time favorite, for all those reasons. Ah, "Complaint Box." See you on July 14!

Yes, the guest spot on CHRISTINE made me very, very happy. I'm smiling just thinking about it.

I have almost as much affection for Drunk Celebrity Poker Showdown Host Dave Foley as I do for 1996 Dave Foley.

Yes, but the Spanish subtitles come on automatically on our (old complete-season) DVDs, leading to a hilarious scramble at the beginning of every episode to find the right button on the remote.

Yeah, I try to juxtapose picture and dialogue for the alt-text rather than syncing them up. A tiny stab at creativity.

Excellent observation!

No, they were going to Hank and Marie's house. No need to be on a plane for that.

I mean De Lancie. There's a reason I prefer to refer to him as Q.

Thank you so much. It's been a real pleasure to work through this deceptively dense show week after week. And props to the publicist who kept me supplied with screeners so I could take my time pondering each one.

We are not done with the apocalyptic scene at the White home from the flash-forwards. Next season, it will be back, I'm guessing.

Then perhaps you're not aware that Kelso never left, but sat in the coffeeshop everyday catching free muffins.

I wavered between "dwarf bandits" and "monkey people" in that line. Both terms are used over and over to describe the Japanese invaders.

Favorable comparisons to Sepinwall? High praise, El Zilcho. Thank'ee.

That was a terrific shot — the tire rolling over the busted telephone, right at the camera.

Oh, thanks — I looked at it this afternoon since I watched the ep ahead of time. OK, everybody, go donate for Walter!

I'm a huge fan of good sportswriting, and there's some very good sportswriting here. It'll suck you in.

No, this is the one — her most acclaimed book, and the culmination (so far) of her fiction career. A classic of its kind.

If you've got a Kindle, it's available as an e-book from Amazon. I actually bought it that way before the interview, which was done on two days' notice, and told her so — she didn't know it was on Kindle. I advised her to thank her publisher. Kindle, the researcher's friend!

Fletch
I'll have a steak sandwich and a steak sandwich.

Not convenient for Walter, obviously, but convenient for the writers who have to engineer a crisis moment for Walter.