I also found the difference in de Rossi's appearance distracting. However, the weight loss thing… Degeneres does seem to truly truly care about de Rossi and considering de Rossi's struggles with anorexia, I doubt Degeneres would support any extreme dieting. I see Frozen Forehead, absolutely, but I think the other…

I would say the best thing about it was that anticipation of this new season led me to watch the first three seasons again, finding things I'd missed the first few times around.
As for this season itself…. meh. Pathetic Michael was just not enjoyable to watch. The housing development/sex offender colony thing was…

@eric827:disqus That's in no way what I was implying. We can see from what happens later that she's hurt by it, that it changes her opinion of him, etc. It's just that most viewers now see it through a lens of 'SHE WENT AHEAD AND MARRIED DR. RAPIST!', while a woman of the time, as legally concrete blonde pointed out,…

@avclub-5833ab3542dfd68e2bf6585b6bb110c0:disqus It's just a strange choice from the writers's room, for me. Either it turns into a major plot point, or it's The Curious Case of the Tertiary Character who Lied For Reasons Not Worth Mentioning.

@avclub-a93a879594c13c12a83fd45ab289a022:disqus Oh god I can't un-see that now.

@ComradeQuestions:disqus He says that the nurse is only available because he'd just finished nursing his dad back to health, something to that effect. Definitely implying his father is alive.

Sigh. There's very little chance a woman like Joan would have considered what Greg did 'rape'. Marital rape in the United States at this time wasn't criminal.

On the subject of Bob… So Bob did mention his dead dad to Ken, right? During Roger's mothers wake? Now his dad is alive and well…

My father still refers to using the internet as 'surfing the web'. Every. Single. Time., including when he's using his smartphone to check his email.

@Cutlass12:disqus 'Whole thing of candy beans' is absolutely my favourite thing on the whole series, I can't even say why, I just love it so.

@avclub-e56eea9a45b153de634b23780365f976:disqus Racism against Swedes, truly the ugliest of evils.

@avclub-9e3b631d801e19a9e92a405ea759e09f:disqus Nah, you can pick it up from a few seconds of that trailer plus everything she's done in the last ten years.

Ehhh, Curtis didn't give of that air of desperation, 'I need people to still talk about my body!'.

Requirements play Jack Kennedy in a movie shot after the year 2001 or so:
- helmet hair
- Mayor Quimby impression

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Hey! Michael Clayton won somebody an Oscar!

@avclub-3c23902822283144c09d87f123545c87:disqus  http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+d…

Okay, what if she was beat up by another girl? By a group of girls?

Homophobic comments are huge outrage at the time, completely forgotten within a month or two.

I think it's interesting that over and over hitting a woman is put in it's own separated class.
You shouldn't hit people. Chris Brown hit his girlfriend because he's an abusive asshole and he likes hitting people and she was there. He didn't hit her because she's a woman and he likes hitting women; he hit her because…