Uncomfortable, shmuncomfortable - Shannon was killing it this week in terms of unlikely hotness. The vest, the wad of cash, the 'who's ya daddy' routine… Phwoar. Although I did feel bad for the little boy when Nelson started yelling at Bork - poor kid visibly started. I wonder if/hope that they got that reaction by…

I really enjoyed the fact that when the old lady mistook Jackie and Kate for a lesbian couple, they didn't do the whole "Wait… we're not… you see, the thing is…" route. Even though the next joke was that Jackie had no idea what the woman was talking about, the fact that Kate didn't feel the need to explain that she…

Haha, from Wikipedia: "The title and lyrics of the Donegan version were changed in the UK because "Spearmint" is a registered trademark[5] there, and the BBC does not play songs which mention trademarks"

16?… 27?…. Wait, no way it's been…

Haha, I kept waiting for the BWAMPS! and they never came. If it takes more than Sir Ian's gravelly tones to get you in the mood, you don't deserve nice things. Agree that this is very encouraging, although for some reason I can't pin down James McAvoy irritates the heck out of me.

Although I guess I did learn that Does Your Chewing Gum (or spearmint, apparently) Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight wasn't a 1950s skiffle original. Had no idea it had been irritating people this long.

I like it though. Symbolism and subtext generally go way over my head until about six months later, so it's nice to have a show that I immediately 'get' without it being downright stupid.

I couldn't either, and I'm a straight woman - that was some phenomenal use of cleavage. Is this what straight guys feel all the time? Think I'm starting to understand why my dad was always so keen for me to cover up…

OH I GET IT NOW

It's a shame we've come to the inevitable end of the road for Dunn - Erik LaRay Harvey has done a great job with him, particularly this season. The fight scene was magnificently staged and brilliantly performed by both actors, and - as the reviewer noted - the use of soft-focus close ups in the confrontation was…

Yes, and it wasn't a remotely 'queeny' role, only as OTT as most of 30 Rock's universe and not in a particularly camp way.

I find that difficult to believe…

Despite his multicultural accent, William Shatner is far and away the best thing about that rubbish miniseries. Like, he actually gives the only good performance. Not an exaggeration.

I had to check I hadn't actually written that comment. He would be the exact degree of attractive and cool needed to make the age gap not weird to a modern viewer, as well as being pretty damn debonair. And if someone did a proper adaptation of Little Men I would lose my shit. I think I read that one even more than…

I was always on board with that romance and yet I'm sitting here guffawing in an unattractively toothy way at all these hilarious improvised nicknames. My weird twelve year old self is pouting in severe indignation, though.

Cristoph Waltz… My god, yes. That would be better than anything I could have imagined. I always liked Alcott's ending anyway, perhaps because I read Little Men about a year before the second part of Little Women (they're published separately here in the UK and I must have got confused) and liked the set-up there. And…

Yessssss time to revisit my girlhood past-time of fantasy casting a remake of Little Women. Unfortunately, most of my 2002-5 era picks will have to be jettisoned for reasons of oldness. Off the top of my head now I'm thinking of more currently feasible choices, I feel strongly that Mia Wasikowska should be involved in…

"Each of the Hecks embodies an American value"

Or, as Cher calls it, "Walking in Mumphus"

What I want to know is why do sheets slide off of naked ladies in this show like bloody Teflon, yet they clung onto Ron Livingstone's midriff as though they were glued on?!