Are you referring to one of the finest half hours of TV of the last few years, "Rapture's Delight"?

I absolutely love "Cause and Effect." Probably my favorite TNG episode.

J.P.: Agreed. They do that completely missing her last name is not Allen, nor even Farrow, but rather Previn—as in Andre Previn, Mia Farrow's ex-husband.

Heh. The Vicky Christina Barcelona LOVE, not film. Whoops.

Yeah, for all the people who don't find it believable that Woody Allen plays characters that dated beautiful women like Diane Keaton, Louise Lasser and Mia Farrow…in real life Allen dated Diane Keaton, Louise Lasser and Mia Farrow.

Mary Provost: Hogwash.

I'll echo the Vicky Christina Barcelona film. I think it's a truly great film, his best since Husbands and Wives (which I also think is a great film).

Not to mention they deal with his reversal on that issue in "Garbage Island." Losing a parent does quite a bit to make one reexamine what you're doing with your life.

I never really realized that "Nothing to Tell" DOES set up the heartbreak to come in "Hells Bells"—it's as if before Joss left (maybe), the writers set up a bunch of season long arcs to follow, but after he left completely lost the tack on the whole thing—forgetting to actually further the arc in any way, until bam,…

Yeah, I don't think the kid is the one to worry about. If you really want to feel bad for someone in all this insanity, think of all the crew members, production assistants and other low, low level employees just trying to make a living and/or get experience so they can get promoted and work on less shitty shows some…

Yeah, I completely agree with IN51P1D. Whedom may like pulling the run out from under characters and situations and showing loss and misery, but when he does it, at least the character motivation makes some damn sense. Hell's Bells, under the watchful eye of Marti Noxon, does a terrible job motivating it's last ten…

Watch out, South of Heaven. She might realize she's afraid of becoming her mother, and leave you on your wedding night. Sorry, I of course don't wish this on you at all. Crap, this is sounding bad now. Forget I said anything.

Completely agree, Peguin. Soem interesting idea, so regularly done poorly.

Since George is taking credit for that line (with Jerry backing him up), it might also be that at some unseen point in the past, George was indeed the first person to use it. The phrase then circulated out into the general universe, but (we are led to believe) it doesn't get remarked upon in the Seinfeld universe…

…though it craters again a few years later. Jesus, this thing is mind blowing.

…make that until about 1978 or so. Then it starts getting better again. For the most part.

It's pretty amazing how good the 60s were in terms of #1s (and a good 75% of those songs are fantastic), and how relatively crappy the 70s #1s were (with maybe 20% good songs compared to a good 60% crap). I had no idea soft rock radio stations were composed entirely of #1 singles form the 70s. I mean, "Shining Star"…

I was wondering what was with all the references to Alta Vista—even going as far as thinking it might have been a product placement (which would have been a real baffling thing to product place)—until Ben's comment. Then I thought it was gold. Ah, Pawnee. You are so wonderfully backwards.

He, the steward's name was Stewart.

Another hole in this (pretty good, B to B+ for me) episode: two American parents can have a kid out of country that's still considered a "natural born citizen" and be eligible to be President. Just askJohn McCain, born in the Panama Canal zone. It being a under US control at the time is not the issue (being born in a…