Rome aired by itself on Sunday nights in the fall of 2005.  I clearly remember running out of my weekly fraternity meetings to go watch the new episode on VHS, and then watching the whole thing over again immediately after, and then giving the tape to my Roman history professor in class on Monday.  Nothing like…

I'm a fan.  I record it every Sunday on one of the HBO off-shoot channels, and it bumps up the average quality of animated shows for that night substantially.

I've never bought everyone's, including the cast's and crew's, insistence that Adriana was the only innocent one among them.  She knows full well what's going on.  Witness her clapping excitedly during 'Second Opinion' as Christopher dumps expensive shoes in front of her, and then praising all the perks he's been…

After Adriana talks to Sanseverino by the ducks about how nice Tony is and how he's a good listener, there's a quick cut to the FBI agents at lunch.  Sanseverino says the same thing to her FBI pals in a demeaning voice and they all laugh, wondering how anyone could be stupid enough to be attracted to Tony Soprano.

Oh, I'm sure Todd treats dissecting a thematically rich episode of the Sopranos the same way he treats getting through a Big Bang Theory crap-fest.

He should've thrown that pizza on the roof.  That would've shown her.

Is there something wrong with her?  Plastic surgery gone horrifically wrong?  Some rare genetic disease?  She doesn't look good on the show, but she looks like a bonafide monster at awards shows. 

Curb stomping and junk dragging.  The cornerstones of any average living situation.

Tony's bitching to Janice about how while he was stuck with their mother, she was off somewhere dropping acid and blowing roadies.

Big agree with the Pope.  'In Camelot' has its problems, specifically an awful Happy Birthday rendition, but it's got what should have been one of Tony's more productive therapy sessions.  He remembers that Livia had a miscarriage and Johnny makes him lie to her about where his dad was while she was alone in the…

On #3, I've always preferred Junior's sensitivity training kicking in when Janice asks who stole his car in front of the black cop.  'You know who!'

Feech stomping on his forearm is one of the cringiest moments in the show.  It still makes my body curl up whenever I see it again.

He's a bushman of the Kalahari!

I noticed that the neck of the bottle and Ron's hand were covering his mustache-zone when he chugged it.  I half-expected a full mustache to have grown once he finished.  Then, I remembered this show can get laughs simply with a guy running into an office with a Rolodex.

Amen to that.  Cold Cuts is a great episode, except it's got Homer Simpson behind the camera insisting on star wipes.

I hadn't heard about that but it does make sense.  Of the two season 6 coma episodes, Weiner's is definitely weirder and more abstract.  He also gets credit for Luxury Lounge and Moe 'n' Joe, and we all know how most people feel about those.  I guess since I'm not as into Mad Men as it seems everyone else else, I want…

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I think this is the last warm conversation Junior and Tony have.  From here on, Junior's dementia gets worse and worse, starting with next episode's "He never had the makings of a varsity athlete."  Losing Junior as a confidant, coupled with Tony's realization that any compliments or…

Hattie's hair is distractingly awful.  I cringed when I saw it.  As if her storyline wasn't bad enough with her flawless, magical boyfriend, now I have to get aggressively angry anytime she's on screen.

I was sure Vince was lying about that until the reporter actually showed up on the plane.  That was the craziest shit this show has ever pulled.  Didn't the show establish that she was way too intelligent for dumb-ass Vince and they had very little in common?  And if her job was to interview celebrities for Vanity…