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Madeleine Stowe's eyeballs are terrifying. She gives great murder-eyes.

"I hate doing things and going anywhere." is the life motto I never knew I had.

I thought this episode took what every character does well and really pulled it together (and made me laugh quite a bit). Howard's eagerness to get into something he doesn't really understand, Bernadette's slightly psychotic yet sweet nature, Amy's repressed desire to be a feminine girl, Penny as the well of social

Eliot destroyed this episode. His character doesn't always get a lot to do because he has no love interest and he's a business-like kind of guy, but I thought he stole the show this time. And that's despite the FBI agent who may be one of my favorite one-off characters they've ever had.

Elliot's confusion over the Mexicans versus the Venezuelans versus the Irish cracked me up. I really enjoy when they play him as an anal-retentive about certain details.

This was maybe my favorite line of the whole episode.

I fear you are right but I hope you are not because her turning into an asshole again would be so trite.

I think Katherine, a woman who has been given memories of a loving and happy relationship with a man who never loved her in the first place, is a far more interesting and tragic figure than Mary Margaret. Mary Margaret was actually the target of the curse, which sucks for her, but Katherine is just shrapnel which is

I am extremely glad not every episode is like this, but I am very glad that there is one episode like this. I thought they made really good use of the documentary format by having everyone fighting, and that they played out the "shit, we can't say anything in front of the cameras!" gag just long enough.

Ben and Leslie are so much my favorite part of this show that it's almost unfair to the other characters. Everything that they do, alone or together, gets me on both a comedic and emotional level.

I liked Sheldon vs. the bird. I'm a simple gal, I guess. I also will always enjoy a good smackdown of Howard for his Master's degree.

Shawn on speed was possibly one of my favorite bits of the year. I could watch him or Gus on some kind of drugs for an entire hour probably (though not both at the same time).

Amy is the greatest, and she and Jim Parsons play very well together. They pulled the physical comedy of that awkward couch moment off brilliantly. I also hope that he gets to play some Sheldon evolution since he can convey quite a lot without saying a word.
But really, every episode could be all about Amy and I'd be

This one didn't have me cracking up like the Hangover- and vampire-inspired episodes did but I thought it made up for it with the way they really kept on top of the references. This was more of a clever episode than a goofy one. No one does an homage like Psych. The fight scene was incredibly well done. And the way

I don't think Alice qualifies as a "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" at all. She's not a mess of quirks and idiosyncrasies that will pull an introverted slight nerd out of his shell. She's just a normal, cool, attractive girl who likes nerdy things and likes Leonard, who is not unattractive. Obviously she is a "dream" in the

Why didn't you just call it "Hey, we're fooling you and the police department; hope we don't make a mistake and somebody dies because of it!"

I thought that was part of the joke, that all of the vampire movies they know the best are actually horrible vampire movies. It makes a strange kind of sense.

LOX, Stock, and Two Toasted Bagels. It's genius. As is Bling Crosby. One of the reasons I love this show are those throwaway background jokes. You know the writers have a whole wall full of punned business names.