The problem with your comparison is that the carsplosion from "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design" was AWESOME.  A better bad comparison would be the planesplosion in the season 1 finale of White Collar, which was terrible.  Really, they should have gone for a smallish realistic explosion instead of a lot of…

No, there was definitely something creepily domestic about it.

I think splitting up the mentors made the battles more antagonistic and therefore more entertaining, because last time they were getting coached at the same time by the same people, and therefore had a little less personal attention/time to build a personal story.  It also might have gotten a little monotonous with…

Actually I thought that was the joke of the George Stephanopoulos fantasy, that back in the mid-90s he was working in the White House and played by Michael J Fox in a movie, and the fantasy object of young professional women.  Now he helps with cooking segments on a morning news show and is the fantasy object of…

Man, I got really into the Monkees when those reruns were playing on MTV in the 80s. Pisces is one of my favorite records, and dorkily enough I sang a song from Head at my high school graduation.  And Valleri is absolutely a kick-ass song, my favorite with Davy as the lead singer.

This is literally the only thing I know about this band, and the announcement that they were signed to Maverick was the first time I'd ever heard their name.

I feel you on the clothes though to be honest I didn't think she was serious, I thought she was just stalling. If that was legit, yeah, that was needless.

The whole overbearing and unfortunate thing was very reminiscent of the forced couple friends business with Robin and Barney back when they were dating, with the freakouts over cheese and the internet slide show accompanied by music.  Sometimes Marshall and Lily have this idea of what being a couple should be and then…

Their claims are silly because lots of advertisers buy on other demos, particularly 25-54, 12-24 and 18-34.  (Looking at the CW on the basis of 18-49 is particularly stupid.) The problem is that the more that someone watches television, the less advertisers target them, because they're going to get them anyway.  You…

The "Lily is crazy" thing was a pretty solid thread throughout the show.  I think it's Swarley where they talk about the girl Marshall wants to date having crazy eyes and the hotness/craziness index, and at the end of the episode Lily throws the girl off the couch or something, and it is revealed that Lily has crazy…

It's really no wonder they made a bad call on The Good Wife.  No one who is targeting 18-49 is buying CBS on Sunday nights in the first place, and CBS doesn't even sell itself on the basis of 18-49, which anyone who'd been to their upfront and heard Les Moonves yammer on endlessly about total viewers would know.

Exactly.  There are SO MANY MORE NUMBERS.  If all advertisers did was look at 18-49 ratings, then you could have the computer execute your television buy.  Granted, I'm on the side of things where I'm very aware of all the numbers that Nielsen has available to advertisers, but I have to think that at least some of…

Demographic numbers besides age and gender are absolutely not "virtually impossible to obtain." They might be EXPENSIVE to obtain, because it means getting a subscription to certain kinds of research and databases, but stats on how a show holds up in repeats and the education level and income level of viewers are…

It wasn't good, but it was an understandable reaction to suicide that people actually have, and it might have been nice for the show to acknowledge that and deal with it, while still telling her why it was a problem.

(1) Kurt lecturing Quinn and telling her that her problems were nothing compared to Karofsky's was beyond gross.

There's a LOT of oppression olympics on this show, and Gay Jesus will always get the gold medal.  But that's the scene when the episode actively started to piss me off, and the dropping of Quinn and Mercedes's friendship (heck, pretty much all of Mercedes's friendships) has always irritated me.

Given that Quarles didn't even know about Arlo until Wynn told him, I'm thinking that he's still underestimating Boyd enough to not bother with the background stuff, and not to realize the thicket of connections he's dealing with, which all the other players do. But I agree that Quarles thinking that Raylan must be…

TOTALLY get everyone wanting them to ditch Whitney from Thursdays, but of the five shows floating around, which one would you get rid of?  30 Rock just came back ten minutes ago and The Office is the only one of the night that posts any numbers at all, so they have to play checkers with the other three in the two time…

Eh, I don't know about Bobby Ewing.  Soaps, like comics, bring characters back from the dead all the time.  On a daytime soap, no body, no death, and even sometimes when there is a body there's no death.  The silly part was making it all a dream, instead of Bobby having been kidnapped and brainwashed by radical…

He ends up with his baby mama, for whom he's "really" been pining for all along.