I thought it was interesting that, for all the plaudits Silicon Valley has been getting for being this brilliant satire of the tech industry, Veep did it more effectively in half of one 30-minute episode than SV has done all season.

And just who is an inner-city black kid going to relate to in the DC lineup, other than a former football star with a genius cyberneticist for a father? Vibe? We've got the diversity cops all over us already!

So is this or is this not basically a white-ification of Chasing Papi?

I'm holding out hope for Wheezy Joe from Intolerable Cruelty.

One can of Coke Zero. Solid food before 11:00 or so forces me to take a 90-minute nap or remain logy and bloated until dinnertime.

So…about that…

I was hoping it was going to be Tidal Wave.

First, I read Lester sobbing in the closet very differently. I simply couldn't take his "grief" at face value, because there were no tears. I don't think it was a "rehearsal", exactly — a rehearsal would be for the benefit of others, and I viewed it more as Lester trying out the gesture, to see if there was any…

As a cold-eyed shell of a politics junkie, I have to agree that Selina gets no political advantage out of being for universal child care, no matter which party she supposedly represents. The constituency that gets her is women, who are already going to prefer her in a primary even if her platform is completely…

Hitler liked shoes. Are you Hitler? The answer may surprise you.

I actually appreciated the Degree product placement more, because in that story the Degree actually saves the day, thus underlining how bare-faced the cash-in actually was. For my money, the worst Eureka product placement was when Jo was car-shopping, and settled on a cobalt blue Subaru because [features].

Too true. Even yesterday, when I was watching Fargo, a show I am legitimately excited about, I made sure to start it half an hour late so as to fast-forward through the ads. For most other programming I am anywhere from an hour to 24 hours behind.

If it were me, I'd try running "classic packaging" promotions for the brands that could support it. Cokes in the cool old 8-packs of glass pint bottles, old-fashioned KFC buckets, etc. Maybe revive the Oldsmobile brand with "classic" 7.7% financing on a Cutlass Ciera.

I'm part of this problem; with all the other TV I'm watching, The Americans is something I just don't have time for until Sunday afternoons.

Dare you challenge the deathless appeal of lines such as "L.A. '92!!!!!", sir?

Princess Diana?

We Dee Snider fans aren't going to take it. No — we ain't gonna take it. We're not gonna take it. Anymore.

Obsessive fandom is why I know this, and I shan't apologize, but a few years back he knocked out about 30 or so in a single segment by showing up at a Congressional social gathering, milling around a room with them, and declaring all present "better known."

It's never been as funny as your little-watched HBO show Dikin Around anyway.

"b4midnight". Boom, handled. Please send Viacom's $100,000 check to the address on my Facebook.