1. The Act of Killing, bar none

Shameless self repost from an hour ago

Cummerbund Bandersnaaaaaaaatch!

Ocean's Nine-Nine?

There's a local news report right now on an email my university sent out about keeping Halloween costumes tasteful, cuz of social media and whatnot.

Why the sudden change?

I hated Sam and Diane.

I'd rather he show up randomly in a later episode than in this one.

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We finished off with some decent damage control (and set us up for Coach next week?? Am I anticipating that too early?) and hopefully grew Schmidt up a little, but in an episode that didn't even have a crazy Winston C-story.
First impression: B-

Well, it completely disintegrated in one of the worst possible ways: with anticlimax, unnecessary devastation for Schmidt (despite what sitcoms tell us, the truth is not always the answer), and seeds planted for a Schmidt and Cece re-up(?).

Act 2 One Line Review: That terribly ridiculous (and sitcom staple-y) plot is working for me thanks to Max Greenfield completely selling Schmidt's delight.

For shame.

New Girl Act 1 One Line Review: The set-up of a terribly ridiculous conceit is mostly rescued by Nick's warning of the Keaton letters' powers and his argument with Winston over using the word "nougaty."

See, now I thought he was eating scraps of cloth. Yours makes more sense.

You make a convincing argument against the time machine.

"There are only two things I love in this world: everybody, and television."
—Kenneth Parcell, 30 Rock

Boo-urns

Question for your digestion: If the entire Simpsons operation c. 1996 got in a time machine and traveled to today, what kind of episodes do you think they would make that would fit into our contemporary moment? Or was today's world never meant for ones as beautiful as they?

That's devastating to hear that he's now co-hosting an offbeat game show with D.L. Hughley. That's like the definition of being a has-been. I hope it's just a slump that he can get out of!