I don't know how with one of the funniest, most absurd, most quotable, utterly jam-packed-with-jokes episodes of television ever, you can spend half the review dissecting and deconstructing just one joke from it that - while plenty funny - has barely a minute spent on it (if that) and is entirely tangential to the…

Nice cursor in the screen cap…

Nice cursor in the screen cap…

Anyone else disappointed the operative didn't fall on his own sword at the ending? It would have seemed to be the most thematically complete way to resolve his character.

Anyone else disappointed the operative didn't fall on his own sword at the ending? It would have seemed to be the most thematically complete way to resolve his character.

I did not understand the premise of the slow invasion with the cubes at all, or why a super-advanced alien race that traveled through time to prevent humanity's colonization of the stars would choose it over, say, launching several dozen nuclear warheads at the planet's surface.

I did not understand the premise of the slow invasion with the cubes at all, or why a super-advanced alien race that traveled through time to prevent humanity's colonization of the stars would choose it over, say, launching several dozen nuclear warheads at the planet's surface.

I still remember seeing "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson" for the first time as a teenager and not realizing the exact punchline it was building towards until the final scene in the prison, ripped entirely from the Charlie Brown Christmas special (but with Charlie-Fucking-Manson), as just about the most ballsy…

I still remember seeing "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson" for the first time as a teenager and not realizing the exact punchline it was building towards until the final scene in the prison, ripped entirely from the Charlie Brown Christmas special (but with Charlie-Fucking-Manson), as just about the most ballsy…

The smoking scene at the end felt totally contrived and unearned to me.

The smoking scene at the end felt totally contrived and unearned to me.

The writing has been consistently inconsistent for years now, but Mary Louise Parker and Justin Kirk have remained two of the most highly skilled and interesting actors on television throughout all of it. I don't think I've every seen either of them phone it in, no matter to what ridiculously contrived places the…

The writing has been consistently inconsistent for years now, but Mary Louise Parker and Justin Kirk have remained two of the most highly skilled and interesting actors on television throughout all of it. I don't think I've every seen either of them phone it in, no matter to what ridiculously contrived places the…

I didn't mind the robots for the most part, but I winced at the dinosaur chase scene where they evidently couldn't hit the broad side of a barn (or a triceratops) with lasers fired over and over again dozens of times.

I didn't mind the robots for the most part, but I winced at the dinosaur chase scene where they evidently couldn't hit the broad side of a barn (or a triceratops) with lasers fired over and over again dozens of times.

I loved the cattiness between Piper and the Time Angels, capped off with a great delivery of her saying "they were really nice".

I loved the cattiness between Piper and the Time Angels, capped off with a great delivery of her saying "they were really nice".

Fryism of the week: "Hey, this mirror has a tattoo on it."

Fryism of the week: "Hey, this mirror has a tattoo on it."

Seeing that devious, immoral and often downright murderous bending unit doing kindergarten-level coloring and sticking his pages on the wall pushed both my comedy and my cuteness buttons.