" also, who shoots a pigeon?"

Don't suggest that. The tidal wave would cause havoc.

Well, that first Pussycat Dolls album actually charted… which I'm pretty sure is more than Jessica could ever boast.  When you're best known for your Christmas album, it's time to acknowledge that boning the Dallas Cowboys QB is about as high as you're ever going to get in life.

It's Top Chef.  The point is that the contestants are supposed to cook in difficult circumstances.

[SPOILERS]

It's probably been the best since the insanity that was Yanks / D'Backs.

This year wasn't even that bad - remember a couple of years ago, when they started having snow-outs and it looked like the entire mess would spiral on until March?

Well, it kinda did, back in 1986. I'd have been happy if the Sox had simply won in 2007 - that way we'd have had their fans shut up, but without the whole "we made the greatest comeback in sports history!" BS.

I think all the stuff about the wife and kids was compensation for last year, when Bravo seemingly stacked the competition with gay chefs in an effort to ensure that they finally had a gay chef win something on TC.

So Frank knew to check the security tapes of the building to find out what happened, but the NYPD detectives who swarmed a very suspicious potential crime scene didn't?

Well, I will give it credit for one thing:

Still doesn't make up for that too-tight cheerleading costume bit last year. Yikes.

I'm impressed they even mentioned Batman given the Disney / Marvel connections.

Well, you also post on the AV Club so I think it's safe to say you're a bit outside the norm, drdarkeny .

The funny thing is that might be a sign of them going broad instead of narrow: the former recurring therapist was Phil "John Stewart and every other black character in the history of animated television since 1995" LeMarr.

And using his production company credit at the end, too.

The issue with Castle is that its writing has been increasingly dictated by the audience it draws from the lead-in - specifically, an older* female audience that was watching either DWTS or The Bachelor(ette).

It's a symptom of the sad drift the show's had ever since about halfway through the second season - the dialogue's become less punchy, the cases have become completely brain-dead, and it's generally lost the interesting feeling it had for the first 20 episodes or so.

Deserved, though. Filion looks as though he ate Captain Montgomery to save his wife the funeral costs.

The old credits…
… were back. Or did I just miss them last week?