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Alan LaCerra
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I can take or leave the fainting Victorian running gag, but I'm the guy who thought that the TomTom joke was funny, at least intellectually.

And Jesus, he wants to go to Venus
Leaving Levon far behind
Take a balloon and go sailing
While Levon, Levon slowly dies

As a rule, female kangaroos, not males, have pouches.  You may do with that what you wish.  (Genetic engineering, mangaroo hybrid lovechild, transvestism, the Tip Cup joke about women being doctors, what have you.  I'm voting for mangaroo lovechild.)

So, Smash draws the line at having a character sing after she or he dies.  As long as Kyle does not sing in this episode, you are not allowed to hate it.  Of course, Julia concurs with Kyle about the stupidity of having a character sing after death.  Common sense, Smash seems to be saying.  You can't hate "The

I knew that you could power a clock with a potato but I didn't remember how, so I was highly annoyed when no one even attempted to explain that.  Isn't that what Professor Proton was all about—explaining science to people who were interested but uninformed?  He was a dick to Penny, no?

That happened?!  What was I watching? Ally McBeal, Cybill, Caroline in the City, The Naked Truth, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. How did I watch so much without a DVR?

I got hung up on these issues as well.

It was as much a question as a complaint.  I guess the complaint would be that while other resets for the most part let the companions remember the events, this one doesn't seem to have let Clara remember.  To be fair, though, we don't know that yet.

I thought the mirrors in Paul's office could have been one-way mirrors, but apparently Sarah did not.

Since time resets, did this episode need to happen at all?

At the end of this episode, Gregor remembers to be decent to Tricky and Tricky looks meaningfully at a picture of his family, but no one actually says anything to indicate that Tricky will discover his humanity again.  This means that again (as with Amy and Rory) we see how people can remember something from a

Is there any purposeful connection between Smash's Gatsby plot and the new Great Gatsby movie, or is it just a coincidence?

Favorite part of this week's excerpt:

I didn't like any of this episode's music, really.

Thanks for the portrayal of gay men, "The Producers."  Tom comes across as a whiny little bitch because his director job fell through while we learn that Kyle has cheated on his serious boyfriend not once but three times (and with aforementioned whiny bitch).  At least we have Sam, who should have replaced Jimmy a

"Look, I have no experience with Twilight beyond laughing at the movies, and I’m that weirdo outlier who loved season four of Angel, so my experience with supernatural offspring isn’t riddled with bad experiences."  Me too.  (But when I think of impossible pregnancies and Angel, I think season three and Darla's

We've had "The Leviathan" and "A Giant Gun, Filled with Drugs," which weren't exactly murder cases (though they come quite close).  Most but not all Sherlock Holmes stories do involve murder, however.  In fact, most mystery shows on TV involve murders.  I remember when there was an episode or two of Monk when no one

Dear Glee, you don't need to orchestrate a week-long power outage at the high school if you want the New Directions to sing acoustically.  Just have Will come up with the assignment on his own.

My impression is that it's so incredibly obvious at this point that really, the show is just messing with us and Katie will turn out to be someone else.

Speaking of rewriting due to Monteith's rehab stint, my DVR guide info directly mentioned Finn and then there was no Finn, so you may have something here.