After watching the episodes, I can see where there might be potential for this show.

You're slightly older than the A&E producers, who constantly want to tell us that "Ship Happens".   Yes, A&E, I see what you did there.  That'll be enough now.

I agree with most of this.  As a TV show, there's more of a challenge to play up interaction between the members because it's an online auction, but holy hell, there's a big gap between buying a bad storage unit and this shipping thing.  Worst case scenario on buying a bad storage unit: trip to the local dump.  Worst…

@ K Thrace - aren't there at least 10,000 Elvis fans remaining who can't be wrong?

I remember junior high the day after the QR/Whitesnake tour came to town.  Lots of Whitesnake T-shirts, QR not so much.  I think the specific problem was something DuBrow said about Ozzy, which was like taking the Lord's name in vain in those parts.

Edina:  "Inside of me, there's a skinny woman trying to get out."

But Superman never made any money

I'm with the reviewer on this one.  Compared to the past few episodes, or even the average episode in this series, the plot in this one was undercooked.  There appeared to be an idea to put crew versus crew, as opposed to crew versus one or two marks.  But any kind of competitive energy one would expect either got cut…

But what if the "walk" sign turns off while you're in the middle of the crosswalk, do you stop, or do you keep going?  Did they think of that?

Republicans are against private charity?  That's a new one for me.

Eh, since this is a hard break until the summer, maybe it would have been better to wrap up the season's arc, but a sort of cliffhanger may mean the writers have enough cooked up for another season's worth of this.  Or, instead of a Fi-centric prison movie, they're planning a side story for some episodes.

I agree, and with a show like the Simpsons covered on this site, there are only so many things a writer can say about the meta-meaning of the series.  I'm guessing that's why the Simpsons Classic reviews petered out.

The Plan B was something of a hail mary in the context of the main plot, but I guess we're supposed to view the dead man walking character as a foreshadowing of Michael's possible future.  It sort of made either the last 15 minutes or the first 45 minutes kind of irrelevant, I'm not sure which.

Yep.

Not all of them are like that.  The B-side to Great White's single "Once Bitten Twice Shy" was "Wasted Rock Ranger", a kind of jokey take on the tour experience cliches.

"Maggie May"?

Mostly true, though I would put Ratt a little earlier in the chronology.  Their breakout video (Round and Round) came out in early '84, just a few months after "Shout at the Devil".

The photo looks like a graphic novel pane.

I listened to the opening to Shout at the Devil (that "In the beginning…." spoken word bit) for the first time in years.  I generally like the album, but that opening sounds hilarious now in a post-Spinal Tap context.

Yes, the commercials have been especially grating this season.  Apparently, the commercial makers discovered that "Glee" is popular, so we're inundated with showy muscial numbers with altered Christmas carols.