Plus the fourth-wall stare that Ted gives us. It was perfect.

Does Lily know that this guy is on her new show?

The song was maybe *too* good, in that I caught myself wishing the characters would shut up and not talk over the song sometimes, despite how great the episode was.

Not remotely!

I wonder if the backstory with Lin Beifong is considered fully covered or if we'll revisit that at some point. Epic flashback! With awkward hair! Maybe any such flashback would be structurally doomed to be too explain-y, but I'd also love to get more insight into what makes him tick—and her.

I might be assuming too much about the show importing stuff from real life, but an idea that's always been interesting to me is that of becoming attached to the pursuit of detachment, in the Buddhist sense. He's a monk and all, but the scholar-like pride is still there.

Once we saw the "imaginary friends," that whole plot pretty much wrote itself, and the episode didn't really try to inject something unexpected into it.

Can you dig it!

I can't spot the pun; help?

Every time Zhu Li appears on "Legend of Korra" I think of Ali G's oft-mentioned Julie.

I like to think that the mention of "bellend" on the TV show "Elementary" (the Lucy Liu one) was in honor of Ali G.

I want to open a lemonade stand just so I can name it "Citrus Citrus Citrus-Ghali."

And a young drug-dealing Stefan Salvatore. :)

It's settled then :) More "Banshee" for me.

Ah, excellent! I'll keep watching then. Thanks so much.

I love "Strike Back" but have some inexplicable resistance to "Banshee." I've watched three or four episodes of "Banshee" and still no love. Do you think that's pretty much it or does the show get a lot better/different a little later?

I mean, *I* agree with you, but I don't think it was a foregone conclusion that Jess would have that much clarity in the moment. I think it's at least possible for the situation to have gone a different way.

That "maybe" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The sentence clearly means "maybe it's *because* I was…" but it rather humorously can also read as uncertainty.

Such a hacky move for the show to pull. The old "person starts to stand up for his award and then another name is called."

Definite points for non-vanity, but at the same time I didn't feel anything. The old adage about show me someone trying *not* to cry and I, as the audience, will definitely cry.