Yeah, an unbelievable BLOODBATH!

Actually Hazel's confrontation with Jenna was the first time the character clicked for me.  Jenna is a sociopath, but she's our (i.e. Liz's) sociopath.  Hazel is an invasive menace, which makes her a good foil for Jenna.

Uh-oh.

In addition to Nineteen Eighty-Four, I think Jennifer Government may be an influence too.  That's what Rick having to rename himself Subway and renounce his past reminded me of.

Just pretend "Choke" is an early Community episode.

Yeah, I thought at first "Rich bulked up."

Interesting that Chevy Chase appeared on Chuck, which also had a (well-noted) Subway connection.  I have to wonder if there's some meta-commentary going on here.

"This isn't a bachelorette party, it's a baby shower."
"Oh, so what kind of penis stuff should we get?"

To be fair, Iris' admission of burning the church turned out to be pretty much foreplay.  It's kind of hard to sort out all the different kinds of wrong here.

Exaggerated, but also cyclical.  Premarital sex was probably more frowned upon in Teddy Roosevelt's time than Jefferson's which was 100 years earlier.

He was gay and from his accent I'm pretty sure he was from New York, maybe New Jersey.  So he was the show's blue state character.

Of course Lila and Lodz, especially Lila, are outside of the mainstream by their very nature.  They won't be considered respectable people, quite apart from the fact that Lodz is probably a genuinely evil bastard.  So why pretend?

The only downside to them being on the radio was that you couldn't see Charlie's expressive head movements.

"He was so fat that everybody loved him and there was nothing funny about him at all!"

My problem with The Whole Truth, beyond the unfunny jokes and annoying musical score, is that the supernatural element seems unnecessary.  Harvey Hunnicut doesn't just stretch the truth, he practices outright fraud.  Which is to say, he's a criminal.  A visit from the Financial Crimes squad or a newspaper or TV…

I know that it's the start to the fun Malcolm McDowell movie Time After Time.

I actually think that Corrigan's lack of conviction regarding time travel is a good move, story-wise.  When he leaves his gentlemen's club his only real thought on the subject is that he's too tired to think about it.  Then fate not only sends him back in time, but brings him to the eve of an event so momentous and…

Ginger might have distracted Booth by blowing in his ear.

The weird thing about Booth in this episode is that he hears a guy wailing about how he (Booth) is going to assassinate Lincoln, and he just puts that one guy out of the way.  If I were him, I'd be wondering who else knew.  I'd also be highly curious about whether this information was coming from my own inner circle. …

For me "The Arrival" was the first hint this could be something more special than a competent X-ripoff.