Aside from the fact that I hate animated .gifs in general (they keep repeating and repeating, making me feel epileptic) you're right.  That's not a moment I need staring me in the face.

The shots of the POTW with slicked-back hair made me laugh.  I guess those guys beating him up was what informed him it wasn't 1987 anymore.

Wilson's fakeout was absurd, as charming as his accent might be.  If the INS agent found out none of the neighbors knew Karolina, she and House would just have to say "We're not very good neighbors.  Sorry."  So it's obvious they just needed a way to get to the hearing scene.

Episodes where Springfield becomes one giant lynch mob are among my least favorite.  Within that group this wasn't so bad.  It had some decent hillbilly jokes, anyway.  Still, it doesn't really gel with the epic 500 number.  A big part of me thinks they should have saved the Joan Rivers episode for the anniversary.

"You know what's better than putting a title card at the end of the show making fun of people who say your show sucks?Not writing a show that fucking sucks."

Jay had one of my favorite lines in the last skit.

I thought he was Ryan Gosling, which is a weird coincidence because they were Mouseketeers at the same time.

For me it was Amy-as-Hillary-as-Rudy Huxtable closing that really brought that sketch home for me.  I don't think I knew how much I loved her most of the time she was still on the show.

That was a highlight of the night for me too.  Maya as Maya FTW.

I don't know if anyone was conscious of this TZ when they did that scene, but watching it made me thing of Taxi Driver too.

The Achilles heel of the episode is its overreliance on on-the-nose dialogue.  We hear a lot about how much Jackie Rhodes sucks: first from Serling, then from George, then from Jackie, and finally from John in the mirror.  It's partly the style of the time and partly the limitations of the bottle episode.

I think you're right.  "Machines" doesn't quite work, but it does push an intriguingly Buddhist idea of gentleness toward the world.

I think if anything it's the Nina at Massive Dynamic who's not evil.  She seemed pretty confident that the safe couldn't be cracked.

The MOTW story reminded me of all things of an early (Briscoe/Logan era) episode of Law & Order.  A lady freaking out over not having a baby, then shooting at her husband led the cops and the DA to this crooked fertility doctor who was just impregnating all his patients with his own sperm.  Of course he didn't have…

Disappointing episode, for me.  Once Liz becomes the Joker it basically turns into a Seltzer/Friedberg movie.  They're not satirizing Batman movies, they're standing around saying "this is a Batman parody."

I like the irony in Leslie trying to get Ben over his fear of cops, while that fear turns out to be more than justified.  In the case of the chief and the others it might have been self-fulfilling prophecy.  But with Dave he let down his guard and suddenly found himself handcuffed to a urinal.  Isn't that just like…

I loved when April channeled the delivery of one of Duke Silver's middle aged fans.

Shame that there are so many perfectly good dicks being thrown away.

"Every group needs a Dave.  Like the Dave Matthews band.  Carter Beauford is the Dave."

Ech.  The girls sexually harassing the cute gay guy was not my favorite part.