Well, sheeit! I saw all of that on The Simpsons last night.

ZMF: Detroit will look like RoboCop soon enough.

I thought I heard that they made the puppet-sex scene over the top with the intention of focusing the ratings board on that one thing and letting the other stuff by. They planned to cut it down from the beginning to sneak everything else in.

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I think they're making a pretty good joke of the show's name at this point.

The Middle
Too bad there's no love for The Middle, which featured a Norm MacDonald cameo as Mike's crazy brother.

I also think Bristol comes off as a bit trashy. I thought the "two middle fingers" quote was the most telling. Although, to be fair, if people were ripping on you and your mom all the time in the press, you might take it a little personally, too.

I'm also in favor of the live band. Keep in mind, also, that even though it's not a difficult task or anything, but editing the actual pop songs down to 1:37 and have a meaningful full-stop ending means that the band is really the better option.

Especially when the show makes no effort to indicate that these kids ever practice. They just want to do a song and blammo! Instant music video—everyone knows their parts. They would have been working on their Sectionals numbers months ago.

I liked his new nickname from Sue. She seems, despite her hatred of Will and Glee, to support Kurt and the other kids in a weirdly consistent way.

Seeing as how both people in the wedding party had only children in the Glee club, it seems plausible to me that all of them might be invited, especially if Kurt organized it. They weren't all in the front row or anything. There were plenty of extras.

But when are we going to discuss Ralph Macchio's other masterpiece, "Crossroads," where he travels across the country with a Magical Negro to learn how to play the blues?

The Canadian Version…
Is actually in its second season. "Battle of the Blades" has a slightly more compelling premise (for Canadians, anyway.) A former/2nd rate female figure skater is paired with a former hockey player and they actually do proper figure skating with weekly eliminations based on judging and votes. …

Ooh..Cool robes made of intricately carved human skin! Now we're getting somewhere.

Agreed. I watched some movie pirated in a movie theatre with a real, laughing audience, and it seemed funnier, somehow. I don't remember what it was, just that it came from the take-your-chance-it's-only-a-dollar stall at some Taiwanese night market.

Shamu
The only Sea World I've ever been to, incidentally, is the one in Ohio.

Two ET jokes in one night…
And they weren't even in the same shows.

Or partially preserved.

My partner's sister-in-law does it. I was a bleeding corpse one year, grabbing at the ankles of kids as they walked by.

Canada?
The description of this show reminds me of "Corner Gas," a much-loved (!) Canadian TV show that ran for 6 seasons, about a bunch of people who hang out and do very little, without the introspection. When my mom was visiting from the states, she saw an episode and said, "this is the stupidest show I've ever…

I didn't notice it until it was pointed out to me, and then I couldn't stop hearing it. Damn you!