Please - not "over at the Heck’s house". There is more than one Heck. It must be "over at the Hecks' house". That kind of thing is like fingernails on a blackboard.

Peter Scolari was NOT "the original Kip"; he was the original Henry. Tom Hanks was the original Kip.

"The twist ending is Kalinda revealing that she’s had plenty of sex with Chrissy herself,"

It looks like Robert B. Parker's "Spenser" series will be continued after his death.

I restrained myself the first time, but when I saw "premiére" the second time I couldn't take it. It's "première" if you want to be hoity-toity, or "premiere" without an accent if you want to write in plain English.

And there was the tracheotomy of Gabriel Hogan in a moving car on the first episode of /Wonderfalls/.  The follow-up in the hospital was the doctor saying something like, "Actually a Bic is the pen of choice for an emergency tracheotomy."

Did anyone else catch the reference to Godwin's Law?  That's the first reference I've come across outside of Usenet.

Not _entirely_ different; it had Russell Tovey as the new werewolf.  But Critchlow and Turner were very much better than the characters they replaced, though I suppose some of that could have been better writing.

HAS Regina returned to being fully evil?  I assumed that when Hook summoned Cora and Regina appeared, it was actually Cora disguised as Regina again.

Donna wrote:  "But the real oddity is that the Alliance, or any empire, can so easily
form a symbiotic relationship with religion. Yes, the fact that both
assert a universal truth and power gives them common ground. But when
push comes to shove, the religious version will trump the secular, and
its adherents will have…

Donna wrote:  "But the real oddity is that the Alliance, or any empire, can so easily
form a symbiotic relationship with religion. Yes, the fact that both
assert a universal truth and power gives them common ground. But when
push comes to shove, the religious version will trump the secular, and
its adherents will have…

Kalinda's comment "I'm not gay.  I'm flexible."  Oh please!  That went out in the 1970s.

I don't understand the high grade.  It was really boring, and I didn't laugh even once.

Right — not only /I, Claudius/ but /Brideshead Revisited/.  And that's if you don't count /Upstairs, Downstairs/ (now known as "what's that earlier one that was like /Downton Abbey/?")

The earlier DVDs were made from the videotape, I think, because at times you can hear the print-through. There's a quiet moment before Augustus bellows "IS THERE ANY MAN IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER" where you can hear it coming — not the words, but a faint pre-echo of the bellow.

Daisy **didn't** "accidentally mess up the cake".  The ingredients, sold by Thomas the Evil Homosexual Black Marketeer, were bad.

I agree wholeheartedly with you and Irobini.  Chris Elliot sucks the funny out of everything he touches.  Martin Short was a breath of fresh air, though:  "There's hummus and veggies?"

I don't think there was any question of that.  She was speaking sarcastically — "Even though I want one servant to be housed among the officers, I don't advocate any wholesale mixing of class.  *That* would be Jacobinism."

A powerful episode, and I think your B+ is about right.  In addition to the moments robothouse mentioned, I liked Amber's "handling" of the drunk guy who was supposed to be hosting the political affair.  I really, really hope they don't make the city-council candidate hit on her.

"subtle emotions that Jason Katims and his writers have always been able to illicit" ???