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My other thought:

And that every week, someone from the FBI is too busy comforting a kid to bother stopping him.

How, exactly, did they know that the daughter was going to be in an FBI convoy along that particular street?  She was in a ballet class MINUTES before.  The bad guys had *no idea* the FBI was onto them - that was the reason for the torture of the boyfriend.

I remember when this show was fun and had a decent cop show edge to it.

"C" is way, way, waaaaaaaay too generous for this pile of crap.  I thought for a second that the flag pin was going to be their out - that they'd put a tracker in it - but, no, that would make the FBI actually appear to be intelligent, and we can't have that.

"she’s in a position of no power so must fight for anything she can get,
and yet goes about it in ways that only make people react negatively
toward her."

This is one of my favourite episodes, from John's Rayner mask to Batman's mopeyness.

Those types of ideas work better in a team context, when you can have people bouncing off each other.  This one works specifically because it's the four League members with the most characterization bouncing off each other.

Exactly.  You can kinda see Tennant toning down his performance a bit to make up for it - the phone conversation in "The Sound of Drums" is some of the finest acting he did on the show.  It's really obvious in the final episode, where he goes from repressed and serious when he's dealing with the Master on the cliffs

I like most of the Davison and McGann stories, but there's just something… off… about McCoy on audio.  It's as though you need his performance to make his vocal quirks make sense, or something like that.

Scooby Doo: Mystery Inc.

Surprised Mara didn't get a nomination for House of Cards.

"As Ryan McGee wrote in his pointed review
of the pilot, the Shannon-Thompsons are totally subtitled—as if they
are speaking in a language—when of course they’re not—but in fact, they
kind of are."

And, as noted in the other replies, Robot Chicken at least seems to understand what makes the shows so endearing.  Things like Cobra Commander's panicked reaction to the fact that the Joes have been replaced by Seal Team 6, that type of thing, at least read true.

This died a death for me in the first segment when I saw the Scooby Doo parody starting.  The animation was great, but when there's AN ENTIRE FREAKING CARTOON SERIES pointing out the goofiness of Scooby Doo (and doing a much better job of it), the entire exercise was kinda pointless.

Ramsay's fakeouts on elimination announcements were one of the things that drove me away from Hell's Kitchen, and it's not surprising to see them continue here.

I still think "Bartlet for America" is Sorkin's high point, but The Cut Man is DAMN close.  What a perfect half-hour.

"Bryan Singer understood in making Superman Returns that any attempt to modernize the character would be difficult and largely unhelpful."

"It’s unrealistic, even for the relatively early days of cable sports channels."

Spin City ranks up there on the list of the most underrated workplace sitcoms ever.  I'm surprised it's not transitioned into endless syndication as well as a six-season show would.