There's a difference between university-educated and upper-class. Compare, for instance, Skinner and the guy who keeps losing his monocles. Also it's more complicated in a government which effectively has 650 competing executives, from many different backgrounds.

Wheneve yo se somethin lik tha, a wizar di i.

I like when he's forced to go to a French circus suddenly, and he sadly puts his 'TV Sports' pennant back in his pennant jar and replaces it with one reading 'French Circus.'

He thinks he's won another stupid case/We live our lives in such unlikely ways.

No. He's gotten too preachy.

To paraphrase the Old Jewish Man, U bastard.

Imagine, if you will, a commenter you can barely understand. They refer to a nexus, but you're not quite sure what they said. They seem to be fleeing something, or perhaps they're a little drunk. It's remotely possible that they just said something about…the Simpsons Classic.

Men have had children at age 87, women never yet older than 66. It's possible Burns's mother was born in 1874 and his father in 1824.

How much funnier is that line to British people than to Americans?

I can live with him being a fat oaf. But not with his affair with Mr. Burns's mother.

Woodrow Wilson?

I find it unlikely that a government-funded TV channel is run by public school upper-class people.

Sure it's not based on pizza places in Boston, Lincolnshire, England (the MA town's namesake)?

I love the 'hits him over the head with idea-lightbulb' gag. That was a really brilliant idea.

That's 'nicked'. Meaning 'stole'.

The circles are in the wrong places. It's supposed to be an anagram of 'diet', which corresponds to the jumble's question 'what does this fat man need?'

Is that a cereal slogan? I hope so, it's why I liked it. Reminds me of 'Honey Nut Loops, let's loop them together', which, if 'two' had two syllables would sound like it has the exact same rhythm as your last sentence. The rhythm/stress is more or less: onetwothreeFOUR……oneTWOthree…oneTWOthree.

I see it as not needing to be more than friendship, because friendship isn't inferior to romantic love, but I wouldn't object to it becoming romantic if it was narratively warranted. It would be narratively warranted for Dean to have a gay relationship, because he's established as slightly nervous around the idea of…

I agree with sdrox14 about Lost's ending, except that the FST part was tedious and irrelevant. But don't call yourself bulletproof until you've finished How I Met Your Mother. I didn't and I never will.

I quit Dexter after around the 4th episode of the last season. I haven't seen the last 2 episodes of SPN9, but I will, even though I was irritated by the reaper-as-angel conceit. Sam, Cas and especially Dean may be issue-swamped stupid little children sometimes, but I still care about them in a way I stopped caring…