For maximum Arrested Development crossover potential, she could name the pooch Buster!

He got a big moment in the season finale last year, and since then they've done nothing with him.  There was a brief flash in the episode where he wanted them all to spend the weekend marathon gaming, but they need to do something with him fast - either give him a story or write him off, because right now he's dead…

Andy made a series of surprisingly logical and business-savvy decisions in this episode.  If that Andy had been around all season, it's unlikely he ever would have lost the job to Nellie.

We needed more of this Robert California this year - I liked that single phone conversation more than almost anything else Spader has been asked to do.  He came in at the end of last like like an ultra-confident bad-ass who almost scared them all into giving him the job.  He's spent most of this year as a half-drunk,…

Yeah, that was maybe one of my favorite Toby moments in a long time.  He's kind of fun as an empty shell of a man always looking to fill himself up with a new identity (mystery writer, Scranton Strangler juror, imaginary salesman, etc.).

Not being naked, just like in every other movie or show she makes about sex.

Five years.  I can't believe it's been 5 years.

Another show that ended on a nice (if involuntary note) was My So-Called Life.  Would Angela and Brian ever make a go of it?  What was going on with her parents?

ER is like Law & Order in that respect.  I don't think anyone would have been sad if L&O had ended when Schiff left - we'd have had 10-11 excellent seasons, and been spared some of the casting missteps and constant ripped from the headline-ness of the second half of the show's run.

Making out with Black Michael Chiklis.

C'mon - Accepted is solid comedy.  Or comedy.  Or something.

Man, I love that book.  Barth can be trippy.

The dance number with the wheelchair-bound Quebec assassins would be an Act 1 curtain showstopper.

If you wanted to film Pynchon, you'd probably have to do Crying of Lot 49 - it would make a trippy movie in the right hands.  (Sadly, Hollywood would probably turn it into a Da Vinci Code-style thriller.)

Is that still a network?  I guess good for them and the 8 lonely, cat-ridden women who tune in to watch it every day.

I think you could make a channel out of just airing failed pilots.  I'd watch the hell out of that.

"Something something 2 Broke Girls joke."
- CBS

Add me to the chorus of "plow through IJ, it's worth it".  It took me 3 starts to get into it - I got about 250 pages in each time, and then on the 3rd try pushed past it.  It becomes amazing, the kind of book you can't put down (I read the last 400 pages in a single night).  It's just so dense in the beginning, it…

Ain't that the truth.  I just finished Freedom about a month ago, and it was a slog to get to the end.  What an unlikable bunch.  The best part was the very beginning, which I had read excerpted in the New Yorker a few years back.  That nice groundwork really went nowhere.

That show started out so well, and fell apart in a hurry.  But the first half season was gold.