I know this happens in sitcoms all the time, especially in one that's on its ninth season, but this really bugged me: Penny knows Leonard's birthday, or at least knew back in Season 1 when she decided to throw Leonard a "kick-ass" birthday party to make up for all the years that he didn't get birthday parties (and she…

No, they're not. It was a completely different case (that was a case of a surrogate suing the couple for forcing her to abort the baby). Also, the timing isn't right, because Alicia was made partner in Season 4, so it couldn't be that case. This was something we had never seen before, I think (not the first time the…

You know, there's a saying in Spanish. "El exceso de confianza apesta" (which literally translates to "the excess of trust stinks"). I think that's exactly what this projects. It's about family, the people who know you better than anyone and yet they're the people who can irritate you the most. They're the people you…

Is no one going to talk about the Jess/Dean scene in Dear Emily and Richard? You know, the one where Dean tries to piss off Jess while placing an order for the entire construction crew outside. I love the look on Jess' face when he hears the order and every time Dean tells him to do something else. I don't know why,…

I'm guessing since same-sex marriage just became legal in California (according to this episode), back when the pilot aired Mitch and Cam could not legally be married, so the pilot couldn't say they had been married for a certain number of years or months (although they did say in that very pilot that they had been…

Well, Mytly, if that's how you feel that's how you feel, but I wouldn't call that a flaw in the writing. In fact, the show is making you react to this character, which means it's doing its job. The basic premise of the show has always been a mother-daughter duo where the daughter is slightly more mature than the…

That wasn't my point. My point was, Lorelai is very much aware that she's overreacting and she can't help it. Creating a scene in front of strangers is unreasonable, but it's in-character for her, because she can't help snapping every time she feels her parents' involvement. If you watch the scene again, you'll see…

See, I don't mind Lorelai's rant so much because even she admits in the following scene that it as crazy. She wasn't ranting because she applied to other schools, she ranted because she feels her parents are pulling her leg, which leads to Emily's line (" you can't let us have one piece of Rory's life, even if it's…

I have a question. How long was James Manos Jr. involved with the show? I know he wrote the pilot and is credited as developer throughout the show, but was he involved in anything beyond the pilot or the first season? Does anyone know? I feel that if he had overseen the entire show, it may not have flown off the rails…

On another note, I wouldn't call Jess a punk. I would describe him as an old soul pretending to be a punk. He's so smart that he finds everything boring, which is why he gets into so much trouble, he's trying to entertain himself (which, in a town as small and repetitive as Stars Hollow, means he gets into even more…

"What he’s doing exactly isn’t clear—this may be 10+ years ago, but even then it still wasn’t easy to live there for free, and if Jess has a job, it’s wandering around eating hot dogs and going to record stores."  Isn't he living with his Mom? As far as I could tell, Jess was going back to live with Liz and he's 17,…

"Seriously? Only one directing Emmy?" Kind of hard to feel sympathy for a show that won  SIX writing Emmys. No other show has won that many, and we're going to moan about it winning only one directing Emmy? Also, the winners were pretty impressive work (including the pilot of Deadwood). Don't get me wrong, The…

"Seriously? Only one directing Emmy?" Kind of hard to feel sympathy for a show that won  SIX writing Emmys. No other show has won that many, and we're going to moan about it winning only one directing Emmy? Also, the winners were pretty impressive work (including the pilot of Deadwood). Don't get me wrong, The…