The way the camera pans back to the sleeping Mark during the thought "I could rape him…" transforms it from simply odd thought to deeply disturbing/hilarious.

'If you try to section me Mark you will have crossed a line and I will section you, so help me!'

Well I see two issues with this. Even cutting out the optional monologue about the cloak, to deliver that almost 300 word exchange (which, props to ya, looks pretty great), you probably need another 3-4 minutes of time that just wasn't available in this episode. We didn't even get to every character this week (Arya,…

He gets off the important pre-prepared messages in the book though (the under attack at the Fist), and then reports to Mormont who tells him to go wait, so he satisfies his duty.

I have to assume they looked at it, and judged the amount of set up needed to get to Jon's "did you see where they put the bastard" line (basically, Mance's entire backstory, his abandonment of the Watch, his trip to Winterfell) was too great for that 6-7ish minute scene to handle on its own, especially since you need…

Although it's discussing the British version, That Mitchell and Webb look really captured the core problems with the Apprentice.

To Parks and Rec? Why?

Oh I don't think the material is off limits, I just think it was picked purely for shock value without anything about it being actually funny.

Oh it didn't cross the line for me, I just thought it was that combination of lazyness expecting humour to come from shock value and sloppy execution.

Huh, could've sworn the Texas book depository joke would've gotten the 'worst cutaway'.

I feel it's more justified with a series like BSG to address major logical issues (the Tomb of Athena mess for example) when show creators claim they've got a clear roadmap for the series, or that the series major antagonists have "a plan", but in hindsight they can't have, because the end of season 1 doesn't work…

Well, maybe if it said "re-distribute the wealth", Bolling would have a point. But it says "distribute the wealth", and it has a picture of a little girl with a sack of money handing it out. From here, it's not hard to figure things out; the verb distribute is used because they're teaching the distributive property,…

But you singled out upper middle class white nerds, as though they are the only group who has a problem with this.

It demonstrates a lot that your conception of a 'nerd' is an upper middle class white male. Guess what?

I don't think nerds have been trying to become popular for decades though. They've been trying to become accepted, which is something totally different.

That, and the whole Canadian (specifically Toronto) sensibility they were spoofing of 'we're very diverse, we're very tolerant and progressive and subsidise abortions', so basically you derive comedy out of the able bodied white male being the social pariah.

It's a spoof of the Degrassi franchise, in which there were like three or four disabled characters.

In broad strokes, yep. Could have been that simple.

I suppose Ted is using 'met' in the sense of having made the acquaintance of, rather than seeing. Technically, Ted has already seen the mother, albeit briefly (Rachel Bilson's apartment).

In the first episode of the second season, the daughter makes a meta joke and asks Bob Saget; "Dad, can't you just skip ahead to the part where you met mom? It feels like you've been talking for a year".