and Sarah Silverman!

Word.  It's funny that some of the best advice Buffy ever got was from Faith.

Word.  It's funny that some of the best advice Buffy ever got was from Faith.

Emily, I can't get the link to work, but the article you are remembering was in the Sioux City Journal.   Google turned up this CJR article talking about the review.

Emily, I can't get the link to work, but the article you are remembering was in the Sioux City Journal.   Google turned up this CJR article talking about the review.

Studio note:

Studio note:

I love Lie to Me.  Great story, great pathos, great Buffy-Giles chemistry, and the best sight gag in the Whedonverse.
 
Also The Wish, mostly for "How do you know the other world is any better than this? / Because it has to be."

I love Lie to Me.  Great story, great pathos, great Buffy-Giles chemistry, and the best sight gag in the Whedonverse.
 
Also The Wish, mostly for "How do you know the other world is any better than this? / Because it has to be."

Or one of the scenes from the Vagina Monologues, if you flip the other one.

Or one of the scenes from the Vagina Monologues, if you flip the other one.

This.  The hypnotism plot is a winner; the Superman III scheme is dumb.  

This.  The hypnotism plot is a winner; the Superman III scheme is dumb.  

Malcolm is incredibly strategic, so you know he has been asking himself this question (or was, several weeks ago) for hours a day.   I can't see him losing at the jury round, so his only risk is if he doesn't win immunity in F4.

Malcolm is incredibly strategic, so you know he has been asking himself this question (or was, several weeks ago) for hours a day.   I can't see him losing at the jury round, so his only risk is if he doesn't win immunity in F4.

The challenge was set up to make the chefs fail.   The producers had to intend a crash and burn, given the Chopped style ingredients and an artificially short time to plan and cook.   Also, IIRC they were forced to shop at the PPM, which has some good stuff but isn't guaranteed to have every staple you might want.

The challenge was set up to make the chefs fail.   The producers had to intend a crash and burn, given the Chopped style ingredients and an artificially short time to plan and cook.   Also, IIRC they were forced to shop at the PPM, which has some good stuff but isn't guaranteed to have every staple you might want.

I see an opportunity for an AV Club Inventory Feature on famous rape jokes.   Other than Tosh, Sarah Silverman, and George Carlin, who else is there?

I see an opportunity for an AV Club Inventory Feature on famous rape jokes.   Other than Tosh, Sarah Silverman, and George Carlin, who else is there?

The characters can't know it for sure, but the plot mechanics pretty much require that you actually get bitten by a zombie to get the fatal style infection.   If you had to protect yourself from contact with zombie gore, they'd all be dead.   (Several characters have covered themselves in gore, and T-Dog had an open…