I guess it was necessary for the episode to work, but for some reason it bothered me that Ben would be so mired in depression and Leslie wouldn't have noticed, even amid all the campaign craziness.

I guess Tina should have consulted you about family planning and when she looks good enough to grace your television screen. That is indeed the lesson we all should take from this.

His famous voicemail flip-out was actually because he couldn't get a hold of his daughter. He really, really wanted to talk to her…to a fault.

Is the implication that Amanda caused the fire at her foster home? Or was an accidental fire the inspiration for the later act that sent her to Juvie? Someone help me out—I can't remember the details. Anyway, they would never leave little institutionalized Amanda alone with matches.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Does anyone else absolutely hate "Christmas Wrapping"? Maybe the verses are okay, but the chorus is so repetitively amelodic and irritating.

Aw, you can see April's teeth in that photo.

I thought it was painfully bad. The best part was the secondary- and tertiary- character Carol of the Bells. And the 2 seconds that Shirley got to sing as opposed to the excruciatingly long Allison Brie as Miss Adelaide it's-okay-if-we're-doing-it-ironically slobberfest.

That was the joke *Rainier Wolfcastle voice*.

He's too handsome for Rochester, but I'm not really complaining.

Anyone remember him as Hillary's boyfriend on "Fresh Prince of Bel Air"?

I feel like Quinn's always been an awful, awful person with occasional tiny moments of humanity, like giving Mercedes a granola bar! Remember that when she was pregnant, she lied and told Finn that the baby was his and carried the charade on for months, berating him to get a job and make enough money to support the…

The moment that chokes me up
Along with all the Keith and Veronica goodness, the way that Kristen Bell delivers the line "I could never" to Lilly in the pool of dreams breaks my heart.

Look closer, Lenny!

"Isn't she a keeper?"
I think it's "Manila Whore Barbie" in Russkie Business.

Iced Tea
How very musical theater of you!

Next week
Echolls Family Christmas!

Actually, it's Ms. Explanation.

Plot Holes
-The login for the chat program was different from the email login. I would assume Kimmy was signed in under her own "Life's a Beach" id while talking to Froggy—does that sound like a moniker Veronica would pick?