I attended an extremely well-funded university only a few years ago and the vast majority of the rooms still had chalkboards. Which, honestly, I doubt has changed — I think when they want to spend money they do things like building a new neuroscience building, rather than upgrading chalkboards.

Yeah, I was very confused by that too. Like, recovering sex addict, whatever. But if I went to high school with her? Not cool.

This is exactly what I think too! I love crazy sci-fi/fantasy television (for a while my friend and I were having a weekly Bad SF Night), and I've noticed that the key to the very best ones is when they take themselves just seriously enough that you can get a lot of mileage out of pitting a serious tone against a…

I want the point of the show to be everyone who's been in Gotham for any length of time acting like characters from the 60s Batman show, and newcomer Gordon being the one horrified normal person.

For a minute I thought this was going to be a great ongoing gag like Agent Hardbeef McChesterton, but Hello Kiddie is so great that there's no point in going further with it.

I'd love to see David Brin's Glory Season get an adaptation, although it might just be too complex to translate well. Also, now that I think about it, there would be a very strong temptation to turn it into some kind of MRA polemic about the perils of matriarchy, or something. So maybe not.

I was also thinking that for a while! This is far more exciting, though.

I've always thought K&P's weakest sketches by far are the ones relating to relationships or gender (with the possible exception of MEEGAN!). The Mother Majesty sketch was sadly in line with that.

I also liked them, I thought the audience's energy was a really good counterpoint to the sketches. Having them drive around in a car doesn't break up the show in the same way.

Please let me know if/when you figure out how to apply one — I decided I wanted an avatar a few months ago but CANNOT figure out how to do that.

I really, really like your phrasing of "the circumstances meet the definition, but it also matters how people define it" here. What a good way to describe the weird borderline situations that keep happening on non-GoT shows. I will totally steal this construction in the future :)

Sadly, @TheMagicRat:disqus is probably closer to the truth — MIT actually underpays its grad students (and faculty) compared to other Boston-area universities.

I have a new goal in life: to avail myself of every opportunity to say "I better heroin up this orange juice." Thank you, sir.

Strongly agreed on the mother series being far worse (although, I guess I should be fair, I haven't watched any of it since midway through season 1). I kept telling people to watch this show, like, "I know it's a crazy-sounding spinoff of an awful series, but it's really not that bad!" For some reason, no one believed…

Same here. I didn't watch OUAT past the first half of season 1, but OUATIW has been pretty great. I just hope Sophie Lowe finds more work.

I'm straight, but Dan Savage was definitely a godsend for me as a teenager growing up in a fairly religious and conservative place.

One of my friends keeps telling me how great it is. Should I watch it? (Except, I see that it's not on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon, so…that's not going to happen.)

Yeah, I think a moving average would work much better. I'm also not a fan of the R^2 values being included — this is a particularly useless application of that statistic.

B. Hopefully Community gets back to well-grounded stories soon.

I agree — there were no stakes for any characters from before this season, and that really hurt the episode.