Even Cookie Monster is after me now. I get it - I figured it out long ago.

It would be possible to play this same material in a way more sympathetic to Phil, but his slobbering over Melissa without really knowing anything about her and without any concern at all for Carol's feelings kills any such possibility. That VW Bug with the bow was especially off-putting to me.

I get it, everybody. No need to pile on.

She pronounced "tomato" correctly, I noticed. I hope someone got fired for that blunder.

Although that can bring "Why watch it if you don't like it?" comments - but yes, at least then you can offer a valid opinion.

I guess I failed to fully realize that. Every night scene is by candlelight, isn't it? Good point. Still, there must have been some brief window of opportunity before the power went out.

Actually, I think Drexler was the one who would have been bumped.

Or when Phil was touring the country, he should have stopped by one of the national network studios, and if the equipment worked, just started broadcasting. And other survivors should be turning the TV on constantly in the hopes that someone would do that. The seeming lack of technology reads "nuclear war," even…

The elephant in the room is: Does the Internet still work? All survivors should be changing their Facebook profile settings to "Visible to Everyone" - they could find each other pretty quickly. And they should join every other network as well - Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, Instagram, Pinterest, whatever else may…

Although the British government was also trying to prop up the British East India Company tea monopoly.

Cornell - ever heard of it? (I think the first incarnation of that protean character was the best.)

In the book it was the other way around - she pressured him to take the job.

I can see the case either way. I think she was trying to avoid either extreme and hit exactly $10,000. "Idiocy" is definitely too strong.

Hmm - must have been a Sunday one, since we all know The Family Circus is a one-paneler.

Actually, he does speak up every five or six years or so. His stated reasons for rarely asking questions are 1) He became shy and introverted when he was a kid and had a strong, easily mockable Gullah accent (even though he has long since purged that from his speech) and 2) Oral arguments are mostly for show anyway…

The interview seems to indicate that a one-time Jerusalem clue would be an extra from a Jerusalem-oriented category. I think every category usually has at least one extra clue in reserve in case some kind of technical glitch or (perish the thought) host error occurs - and a category that went unfinished on the board…

If Sandra Day O'Connor read opinions on the bench the same way she reads Jeopardy! clues, there would be cases from the mid-90s left still unresolved.

If I recall correctly - Trebek actually hosted Wheel, but Sajak read one clue (maybe not even that - it might have been a pure sight gag) on Jeopardy! and then Trebek came out and did the rest.

I suspect that this particular example was on purpose. Sometimes they like to put in little gimmicks. I remember a board many years ago where every correct response was someone named John.

St. Barbara. Is there really an etymological connection? I never thought of it before.