No, it's not. He first appears on screen in season one as the guy who calls pro-bending matches on the radio. I think they first mention his name in season two on the red carpet at the premiere of the final Nuktuk serial.

At the risk of sounding pedantic: Gregory is actually a cricket, not a bumblebee.

Sorry, but The Fellowship of the Ring comprises Books 1 and 2.

I like that even in an internet comment, it would be too farcical to imagine Paul Ryan at the top of the ticket.

That's true, but I can't help but feel that the fact that the Western elements were more explicitly foregrounded on the show was holding it back a little.  I recall often thinking, "We get it, this is a space western," while watching.

"I hate laundry day."

I suppose I haven't been giving Frodo credit for enough overall courage, though for the purposes of this discussion I have largely been focusing on the character's physical courage.  After all, the context is whether the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins is correct to characterize him as "the bravest little hobbit of them all."…

Well, I suppose I am nuts.

Yeah, I'm going with Sam, Frodo isn't particularly brave.  In fact, if I were rating hobbits by courage it would probably look something like this: Sam, Bilbo, Merry, Pippin, Bullroarer Took, Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, and then Frodo.

I'm okay with him buying it recently, maybe he lost his copy or loaned it out to someone who never returned it.

Speaking of One Hundred Years of Solitude, it seems a little out of character for douche Ted to be reading it in translation.

See, I thought of it as more of a literal neck-beard.

See, I thought of it as more of a literal neck-beard.

I agree, and I think that's kind of the reason why a lot of people don't like him.  I'm actually re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring right now, and while I enjoy the Bombadil episode, I always find it frustrating how long it takes the story to properly get going.  Although the characters are always talking about how…

I agree, and I think that's kind of the reason why a lot of people don't like him.  I'm actually re-reading the Fellowship of the Ring right now, and while I enjoy the Bombadil episode, I always find it frustrating how long it takes the story to properly get going.  Although the characters are always talking about how…

Yeah, talking back isn't a problem, especially given the fact that once the voting starts the judges' comments only really serve to stretch the show out to a full hour to two hours. Simon Cowell's only real job at this stage of the competition is to fill what would otherwise be dead air.