Last meal starts with a Tabasco caesar salad and a big cold glass of Dr. Pepper. Maybe a shrimp coctail appetizer, the kind they serve at Boudain, and then a main course of slow-stewed carne adovada with fresh tortillas. Finish it off with a chocolate silk cake and then let me dissolve into nothingness.

I brought mine with me. I hope that's OK.

My parents, who have the worst taste in the world, introduced me to it and I've been hooked ever since. This is a show that's built for re-runs, particularly because the mythology isn't so deep that you have to see the episodes right before and right after to really enjoy it.

Thank you for pointing that out. My wife and I looked at each other the moment he popped up on screen (this is our first season watching Top Chef) and we both said, "Downs" at the same time. But because she can count faster, I now owe her a Coke.

Venture Bros. is all about characterization. I will admit, Adult Swim has had some big misses — 12 oz. Mouse, late-era ATHF, a good chunk of Tom Goes to the Mayor — but if you can't get into Venture Bros., I don't think you're trying.

Don't go being a twat now!

And, to see Warren Ellis' take on the subject, check out his short-lived series, "Desolation Jones." In that one, L.A. is The Village. Pretty awesome.

The way I understood it, Leonard asked her to move out via text and she texted back that she wanted sex. I, too, was surprised that there's no mention of her. Hopefully they'll sign her up for another arc soon.

Was I the only one who noticed that the speech impediment guy was also featured in a commercial for some sort of tax rebate software during the show? That kind of thing always weirds me out a little. Like whenever I see Felicia Day in a commercial and she's not secretly in love with Dr. Horrible.

Was I the only one who noticed that the speech impediment guy was also featured in a commercial for some sort of tax rebate software during the show? That kind of thing always weirds me out a little. Like whenever I see Felicia Day in a commercial and she's not secretly in love with Dr. Horrible.

Jaime? Really?

The Unicorn Magnum pepper grinder
I loved lots of my gifts - lomo cameras, Sedaris, Vowell and Vonnegut books, Simpsons DVDs - but the best was my pepper grinder. I know it sounds stupid, but, damn, that thing grinds a lot of pepper.

Shit
I thought this was about the guy from "Empty Nest." Then I went on IMDB, found out that was Richard Mulligan, and that he died in 2000.

Thank you. Of all the callbacks in this episode, and there were some great ones, I most enjoyed Murder Train.

Nixon is The Smiler
If Hunter S. Thompson is Spider Jerusalem in "Transmetropolitan," then clearly, Nixon is his enemy The Smiler. Hell, he even does a version of the Checkers speech.

"This is Howard"
This line killed me, though mostly because Howard's delivery sounds so much like my dad, who ends every voicemail with, "This is your father." Thanks, Dad. I had no idea who the guy who sounds exactly like me on the phone was.

He was plenty funny in Paint Your Wagon. I'm not kidding around, either. I love that movie.

You, sir, have forgotten the classic "If You Want Blood (You Got It)".

OK, I'll be the Ted here…
But, yeah, I saw it coming. Did anybody think Ted was really going to marry Stella? He had to get out of that situation, but the only way to do it and still like Ted was if Stella was the bad guy. The fact that this was our first introduction to her ex (who she tried to get to marry her? come…

Probably a bad sign…
But does anybody else like Sam more as a dog than as a human? Maybe it's because when he shows up to guard her at night, he's not being all creepy possessive.