Really enjoyed this episode ; especially little touches like the "realistic" version of Canary's scream. D.C. has some pretty dark villains and storylines (check out Court of Owls for a recent example), and has had them since long before Thomas Harris put pen to paper, so The Dollmaker totally worked for me.

My personal theory is that Ollie's the one Slade has the hots for, so he's doubly frustrated : he can't have Ollie because of Shado, and he has entirely the wrong frontal arrangement to attract him anyway.
If we add to that the possibility of being burned and hideous plus jealous rage/emotional damage he could totally…

No; I think the writers should assume that most viewers' command of English is at least as good as theirs, and just let his remarks and observations stand, unless the person to whom Holmes is speaking is an obvious moron.

"Clamored" into bed?

"…taking advantage of your proximity to past murder."

The monkey/Sheldon stuff was funny, despite what Mr. I Wear Serious Pants Sava might think, but Raj's "As you wish" was the gold for me. I had to stop the show to get done with laughing.

Really enjoyed this episode. It's developing a kind of 'seventies, Mission Impossible kind of vibe, balancing the gritty with the fantastic-and with a nice Whedony twist to the characters as well as the main set (it's not just me, I hope ; the 'plane interior is quite reminiscent of Serenity, isn't it?)

How you get a knowledge of woodcraft from fox-hunting, "The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable", to quote Oscar Wilde, is beyond me . If Ichabod had said he learned it from a Scottish ghillie, or from his Native American friends I'd have believed it more readily.

Herbert Lom as Dreyfus in A Shot in the Dark; probably the best Pink Panther movie.
 He begins as an assured, urbane man of the world, successfully managing his public and private affairs, and ends as a twitching, self-harming homicidal maniac, thanks to the infuriating bumblings of the oblivious Clouseau.

Penny in that negligee.

Why not?
Legitimate curiosity, here. It's been a while since I read it, but my recollection is of multiple revelations, which would argue the"s" is valid.
Or is some daft linguistic convention, like not pronouncing the "k" in knife, knee and knackered?

My goodness,  we got out of bed the wrong side this morning, didn't we Mr. Grumpy Pants Sava?

"This youghurt tastes funny."

Watching episode 2, I was strongly reminded of that episode of Friends, where Chandler comes home from his out of state  job and spends time with Monica without telling Joey. Joey of course assumes Monica is cheating on his friend, because that's what sitcom people do. All kinds of hilarious misunderstandings and…

Loved the Veep's reaction when Gary says he's leaving too. She seemed genuinely disconcerted (although for purely selfish reasons).

Even among the stand-out cast, Reed Diamond was awesome in Much Ado. He made the Shakespearian dialogue sound as though he were articulating his thoughts, rather than reading something off a cheat card. The only one who really matched him was Sean Mahr, who gave the best performance of Don John I've ever seen.

Phoebe is a terrifying, amoral sociopath. (Watch the show; you'll see I'm right.) I'm amazed that she doesn't end by wearing the other cast member's skins.

Saw this last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. As we were leaving my friend suggested a series of webisodes featuring Dogberry and Verges  bumbling their way through some other cases, possibly called "Messina Nights : Comprehending Vagrom Men."

Agree with the tedium of "Origin Stories"; as has been pointed out before, we don't see John McClane work his way through the acadamy, and his first days on the street (although I'll bet  that's something they do when Willis finally throws in the towel), so why is it so central to every superhero movie?Why not just…

Well, I'm late to the party.