[spreads two slats of the blinds apart with right middle and index fingers, allowing just enough of a slit to see through.]

Pam is a TJ Maxxinista.

The A.V. Club:
"This comedy has too many laughs-per-minute. More like comedy minus!"

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Tudyks are better than Juan (Krasinski.)

What's wrong with your faaaaaaaaaace?

I read Family Guy as satire of the sitcom first and foremost. At the risk of sounding like an FG apologist, I saw that ending as poking fun at shows with long-suffering wifes—Marge Simpson, anyone?—rather than endorsing that stuff. I mean, the period joke is so over-the-top—and done to death on FG, frankly—I find it…

I think the "learning lessons" portions were cutting into the more valuable "cutaway pop culture reference for pop culture reference's sake" portions.

So you mean to say FOX is cancelling it?

Yeah @avclub-a30886189696ec2f02253bd337deef8b:disqus , I read it the same way. It's even more dramatic, because you can read it as Pam having to either a)force a hug she doesn't feel just to comfort Jim or b)a way to try an force herself to feel the "appropriate" emotion.

I dunno, I think the hug at the end elevated this for me from B to A-. It's a subtle, realistic touch. Yeah, no hug back would have been more dramatic, but I think in real-life it'd be hard for someone to withhold like that. Jim and Pam are in a bad way, but they're not in War of the Roses territory.

The Queen doesn't know her ABC's. It's a fact.

I'm just gonna take this opportunity to tangentially comment that one of the most poignant moments in the movie to me was the birthday card he finds.

a * b * c = x

Fuck Martha Stewart.

Also, it was suggested that sewer rat was a better alternative.

He was busy plotting kidnappings.

I think the problem with II is that it's slight, in a way. It's sort of a mad dash through competing timelines in order to connect I and III. I kind of feel that the creators' hearts were more in the past, and exploring a modern kid's interaction with it, than in the wild boundaries of time-travel fiction.

Because of Series 7 my mind connects "American Girl" with "Love Will Tear Us Apart" via Brooke Smith.

Just thought I'd ask: our NBC affiliate has been showing the previous SNL one week later on Saturdays at 10pm, leading in to the news (which is why I'm actually seeing a lot more SNL than I used to). Is this network wide, or just a regional way to fill a vacancy in  the schedule? And speaking of that, what were they…