I think the better pun in this situation is "Ice story, bro."

Nope, I completely agree. A pediatrician dating one of his patient's divorced parents sounds like a terrible idea.

I'm not sure I liked this, but given that the image of the Gimp watching through the kitchen window made it hard for me to sleep, it must have left an impression.

It's more like they just dropped her altogether. In the pilot especially, she seemed like she might as well have been a main character. Basically disappeared in S2.

I like this show, but I really think that flash forward in the pilot is gonna kill it as we get deeper into things.

Not sure what I think about this. I like Obama about as much as anyone, but I dunno, Williams' stupid song has been on MNF since Obama was in law school, and I doubt anyone connects it to anything political. Seems unnecessary.

"All that said, however, if Teselecta-Doctor is the only one that ever dies, then the only "fixed" thing in time is shooting a bag of fake skin bones and clothes that actually affects substantively nothing. Whether or not River shoots T-D, either way the Doctor lives, right?"

I dunno…I mean, if you don't like "prophecy" stories, that's an opinion I can't really argue. But I think the prophecies here have pretty explicit and obvious stakes- the "fall of the eleventh", the possible end of the universe, etc. I mean, these are the stakes in pretty much every episode, but still, it's not just…

I guess, but given that I was yelling at the TV, "Why don't you just use the Tesselector?"- and given that I'm pretty thick- I'm not sure it's a twist so unexpected that I feel cheated.

Well, we've seen that they do care, haven't we? She always has to break out, it's always a big deal. I don't know if they've established that the prison knows she's going to see the Doctor, though even if she is…well, The Doctor's a time traveller, they wouldn't connect that to the idea that he survived.

That's probably worth exploring! For some reason, people find stuff like that funny when the guy is the young party.

Tom's always lost about 10 IQ points when around Jean Ralphio. Working together "full time", I'm surprised they remember how to breathe.

Ugh, if we'll all stipulate that you're smarter than us, will you can the rhetoric?

The subplots been around for two episodes now, and the meat of it was only introduced in this one. Let's give it a chance before we declare it a total flop, even if we're going to ignore that most comments on here found that story hilarious last night.

Yeah, Ron's imperfect libertarianism is a strength of the show- he's a full character, not just a symbol of an ideology. Plus, the fact that he adopts an ideology because it most closely matches what her personally wants for himself is, well, pretty realistic for us.

"Or I just have excellent blah blah blah…"

It did, but it was kinda cool- I can imagine either a) Ben has had enough girlfriends to keep him moderately satisfied (not saying he's a playa, just that he dates) but doesn't have many guy friends, or b) after the Leslie breakup, he's a little desperate to hang out with someone, and find a reason to stick around in…

If Ron Swanson needed more than 15 minutes to reclaim his soul, he wouldn't be man enough to deserve it, anyway.

I dunno, I thought the Tammies all helped explain and clarify the evolution of Ron Fucking Swanson- the redneck mom, the cold and domineering first wife, the animalistic second wife…yeah, that all seems to be exactly the equation you'd need to produce a Swanson (although…wither the dad?). Plus, I kinda thought there…

Well, Dr. Cox had always been portrayed as the best doctor, and really, the one with the most give-a-shit. Plus, he always wanted the Chief job. It was a little rocky, but there was a pretty consistent arc of him learning to stifle it to get ahead (the episode with his old mentor, his relationship with Jordan, etc.)