Right? When that one guy started to imitate them, I was terrified. Dude could have been signaling, "Come dismember me and shit on my corpse-pieces, fellow primates."

Yeah, I initially cringed at the LA guys (as a LA native myself, just the sight of a camo wifebeater made me sad), but they have — or at least the dad has — surprised me so far.

I'm generally very live-and-let-live, we're all God's™ creatures and whatnot, but monkeys will eat your fucking face off. NOT OKAY.

Those monkeys would be a deal-breaker for me. *shudder*

Dale has a Dad from Family Ties vibe, and I dig that.

I was shocked to realize even I recognized John Rocker, and I care not about baseball. Generational cultural groundwater is definitely a thing. Also, I was so happy to see Josh take umbrage at being folded into "the girls."

That's because feminist TV is simply equal TV. If more people realized that about feminism, the world would be a better place, with more nudity for everyone!

I still don't understand why they couldn't keep just one of the cats.

However, my sister, a pharmaceutical sales rep, would be pissed at the notion that someone with no degree and no experience could just hop right into pharmaceutical sales, especially in CA (where laws prevent the "pretty girls schmooze doctors at dinner" notion of pharmaceutical sales).

I thought the whole storyline with boats boats boats was pretty telling, with Ted wanting someone who needs him and Robin being pretty independent. Not to mention the sheer number of times they tried to make it work and it didn't. And that the message is probably supposed to be "these two people have grown and…

Honestly, I was more upset that they worked so hard to show us that Ted and Robin don't work, and Robin and Barney do, then canceled Robin/Barney so Ted could have Robin after all. I quite liked Tracy as well but I would have been okay with her dying if it hadn't been capped with Ted literally going full circle to…

Honestly, I disagree. I enjoyed Joan Rivers on the show, but all her jokes seemed to scream I'M MAKING A JOKE NOW ABOUT THIS PERSON THAT MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT BE RELATED TO WHAT HE/SHE IS WEARING RIGHT NOW. It was all very canned. The show perhaps needs the respectability of a Joan Rivers, but it doesn't need Joan Rivers…

I am perfectly okay with people not liking Firefly even though that is difficult for me to comprehend. I am not okay with someone grandly stating that a show is a rip-off of other series, with horrible acting and dull plots . . . without having bothered to watch more than one episode.

Somewhere, a third-rate media provider is crying.

Thanks! I was going to jump over the two between The Likeness and the most recent one, but perhaps I should stay the course.

I don't think she's saying he doesn't look virginal because he's attractive. He just has a certain unvirginal swagger.

To be fair, Dougal saving Claire in this episode was self-preservation as much as anything (heck, he was willing to kill her himself if she'd proven a liar). She was being questioned about his Jacobite activities; of course he had to get her out of there!

I barely recognized him when he strode into the room. His physical presence and whatever he was doing with his mouth are just so different from Frank.

I really loved The Little Stranger. I was less enamored of The Night Watch, the next Waters book I read. It was good, just not as good. I'm looking forward to this one. I hate when the first book I read by an author turns out to be my favorite. I'm having the same problem with Tana French. I adored In the Woods but…

Exactly. She was clearly thrown off kilter the second Randall walked into the room, and he goaded her into saying something compromising. It wasn't Claire's canniest moment, but that's part of what makes her a great protagonist — she doesn't always make smart choices, especially when flustered, pissed off, and/or…