So apparently I'm the only one who realized the kids were imaginary about halfway through, when the doctor said she'd never have kids?  Rather than feeling tricked I found it to be a moving way for her to deal with her grief.  And I loved her noting how all her friends would react to her news and how that was enacted.

There is an episode in an earlier season where Ted specifically says that Robin never becomes a mother, but that she did have children in her life, and the final image is a child's drawing for "Aunt Robin" from Ted's kids.  I'm sure someone else will remember the exact episode it was.

I have to agree with Ms. Smith here.  Because I remembered and really bought into the previously mentioned fact that Robin never becomes a mother—and honestly I think it's a big part of her character that she doesn't want to—I just assumed that Robin was talking to the children she never has, so that ending didn't…

Thanks for saying whose cover it was—I was sure it wasn't theirs.

True story: I sang "As We Go Along" at my high school graduation.

Thanks for saying it's the media critics not really paying attention—in advertising we've been talking about this for fifteen years.  I can't think of a major advertiser that doesn't have a significant Hispanic spend, and that includes those that target heads of households as well as youth advertisers.

Thanks, I was going to say that about the German newspapers. The "everyone eventually assimilates" model is incredibly simplistic, as is the idea that immigrants came here and just stayed here, rather than a significant pile of them wandering back and forth.

I think the Pastime Paradise thing came up because he didn't want to sing the line Gangsta's Paradise for whatever reason (he's clean now?) and so they went back to the actual Stevie Wonder song the chorus was sampling, which is Pastime Paradise.

They must, because Idol movie nights tend to be dominated by all those Diane Warren songs.

I honestly don't understand why VftW has taken on Astro. He seems a little too talented and appealing for the kind of thing they like to do.  Astro winning would not prove that The X-Factor is a horrible show or whatever; it would actually make it seem relevant in a way that yet another diva winning would not.

Ah good to know, thanks.

Absolutely, but I really didn't mind that.

Yeah, I admit I'm wondering when Anders is showing up.

For the love of Mike—Harry and Sally are NEVER just friends.  The movie is not about whether a man and a woman can be friends.  That's just what the marketing and the magazine trend pieces were about because of what Harry says in the car.  Harry is clearly wrong, because he's fairly emotionally immature at that point,…

Roots : African American actors of the 70s :: Harry Potter : British Actors of the 00s.

I'd think that Subpurgatory would make a good partner for Happy Endings or even Cougar Town, actually.  There's a very similar sensibility there.

You'd have to go to the respondent-level-data to work this out, but I suspect that there aren't actually that many people watching 90 minutes of comedy and then wandering off. Modern Family got a bit of an Emmy jump and I would reckon, especially with DVR numbers figured in, that there are a lot of people just…

Back when Hyden did that Eagles post and everyone was talking about Hotel California and Stairway I said that Paranoid Android would probably be the next song to get elevated to that particular pantheon (songs that seem like two or three put together + vague yet seemingly narrative lyrics + a long rocking solo) but I…

The point at which I stopped reading that site at all was when they couldn't say "oh, perhaps our predictive model was wrong" or "oh, perhaps shows can actually grow in audience rather than only always declining."  Because man, when they bait fans for season after season for a show that really isn't on the bubble any…

I agree, but to be fair, CBS actually talks more often about 25-54 (a demo more advertisers use than people seem to think) and total viewers (I think their entire upfront presentation uses 25-54), and sports often talk total viewers.  Of course the CW mostly talks 18-34 or 12-34/12-24. Even Fox will emphasize 18-34…