I don't think it gets enough attention just how preposterous it is that Leicester won the Premiership not just, you know, at all, but specifically after that absurd embarassment of an offseason they had. Of all the mid- to low-table teams you'd predict to make an absurd miracle run, you wouldn't think it's the one…

You cover all that stuff, he's happy to supply the casual racism.

nkotz, I sparred with beema. I knew beema. beema was a nemesis of mine. nkotz, you're no beema!

He's gone mad with downvoting power!

You're thinking of the TV Club gestalt entity. We're the What's On Tonight gestalt entity. Totally different gestalt entities.

Those were grain silos, keep up.

I would say the comma makes a difference to the original meaning, but I know what happens around here when I bring up copy editing.

HUMANS HAVE TO LEARN THESE THINGS ON THEIR OWN OR WITH THE OCCASIONAL ASSISTANCE OF MONOLITHS, DAMMIT.

It's not a slam, just a recognition of a long-running, admittedly infuriating running gag.

And "You've just been WOTed" sounds like something we'd have to appear in court for.

OKAY, WE FUCKING GET IT!

We aren't, sorry. I was just saying people might like this if they liked MasterChef Junior, which we did cover. Apologies for the confusion.

Yeah, "Family Fracas" is probably a smidge worse. Though Rob Huebel's TV exec is by far the funniest thing about either episode, so depending on my specific criteria, I could still maybe see that as the better one. Either way, I'd probably give that one the same (arbitrary) grade.

Yeah. Just a really weirdly underdeveloped episode that tries to get by on that one (admittedly great) pained Bob facial expression way more than any episode should.

That really wasn't my point though. I suggested — and you certainly don't have to agree with this! — that this episode did surprisingly little with a rich but obvious premise, and I threw out some hypothetical examples of ways the episode could have subverted that obvious narrative. I mean, I did say in the review…

Yeah, definitely. And, for the record, this review is not calling the episode a dumpster fire. A kinda dull partial misfire, but by no means a dumpster fire.

I'm less bothered by that in practice because the show's hand is kind of forced by the fact that everything has to go back to normal at the end, but yeah, that it's so obviously contrived speaks to the episode's structural problems.

Yeah, the power struggle idea was probably just because I saw the trailer for The Founder. But I have no particular stake in which story the show tells — just that, if you're going to explore what it would be like for Bob to have money, it might be interesting to give a lot more space to explore all that could mean,…

I mean, probably not? The question kind of presupposes an unrealistic level of rigor to the grading scale — which is split among three different regular reviewers across the show's tenure, plus a bunch of fill-ins — and inter-grade reliability likely isn't possible when each episode is graded night of. So, better to…

That'll probably get the featured spot in Premieres and Finales, honestly. But I won't know tillI check next week's schedule.