Damn you not-readers of the Muppets and Cheers coverage!

And Brothers, the debt to which W&G owes should be acknowledged (they totally stole the Eunuch+Flamer chaste gay roommates formula from that show), which came fairly close to that even earlier, as a primetime cable sitcom and later a late-night syndicated one…

1. This isn't Arnold's funniest comedy. Twins is.

I'm not sure which is more troubling: the idea that SNLs producers are at this point still unaware that they're chronically undermixing the musical guests' lead vocals, or the idea that they are aware but are unable to fix it…

I was unprepared for the shocking revelation in this episode: that you can apparently now use the word 'fellated' on broadcast TV at 8:15 PM. At least intransitively.

I would absolutely watch that Wes Anderson movie.

I don't know…I'd really rather get rid of the ostensible main character and make Action Neela the star of the show. I'm sure they can come up with some plausible explanation to why Reddington was really all about her the whole time…

Although, honestly, Modern Problems is even worse (on all levels and possible meanings, but I'm talking about failing on the benevolence scale.)

Eh, Spider-man came into being decidely post-pubescent, and the X-men were in racism metaphor mode until the 'All-New' era began.

At least a half-grade swing on my opinion for the first episode will be based on whether or not they use the word 'jaunt'.

I really, really wish Elizabeth could have made the two-inch leap and asked "Are you seriously trying to insinuate that you're my real father" and gotten the "God, no" that the audience needs to be assured that they're not going to go for that lazy a solution.

They're getting close to the Alias structure, at least, with an entire act post-resolution each episode.  I think that the bonus act would be better used Alias-style in setting up a cliffhanger for the next episode than it currently is plodding deeper into the mythology swamp…

I have to think that when Reddington suggested that there was a third option, "pretend it never happened" wasn't what he had in mind.

To me it sounded like he was planning to say that they cooked like a native Italian, but at the last minute found enough integrity to swerve away from that.

Arundel, if they do decline to say what happened to Finn, I'm going to assume they want me to believe the character died attepting autoerotic asphyiation.  I mean, that's pretty much the only cause of death that people would so studiously avoid mentioning these days, right?

Wasn't there a (presumably dead) maintenance guy down there from the finale also?  Who stole his body?  Will there be a frankenstein subplot this year?

It was in the 'other shows' section of WOT yesterday, so it probably is a one-time thing.  I think they're covering a lot more premieres and pilots this year in general, though.

The mudslide is a secondary catastrophe to the main on going on in last year's finale, one of those west-coast hurricanes you always hear so much about.

You know, back in the days when Superman's Code against Killing was really a thing (Silver/Bronze Age comics), he had one major exception: robots.  No matter how intelligent they were; they could be a freaking robot poet genius and Superman would still kill them dead without a second thought.  Kal-El was a serious…

So, exactly how is it that a person can manage to be burnned at the stake for witchcraft and then go on to be buried on consecrated ground (with an amazingly well-preserved tombstone)?  (Or even pretend to be buried on consecrated ground, for that matter.)