I don't know, that scene between Walter and Colonel Broyles seemed clunky and obvious.  They both had a similar dilemmas with huge consequences, but I wish it had been handled with more subtlety.

Austrid also referred to him as "Agent Broyles".  After the point being specifically made earlier in the episode that this Broyles was a Colonel, was the point of this to indicate a demotion?

I'm probably ten years older than you all, but I can remember the most significant thing about American Pie was that it was a return to the Porky's/Private School/Class era of R-rated teen comedies.  In other words, a reboot of a genre, as opposed to a reboot of a film franchise.

It's got jangly guitars.  I miss jangly guitars in music.

So, the little guy popping out of things (i.e., the oven) and punch-gutting victims — is that his thing? I recognize him from some "Scrubs" fantasy sequences.  Is the movie recycling old jokes, or is this the only thing this guy is known for?

The "so ___ seconds ago" commercials are obnoxious, but before the one with the guys in the workplace, there was a similar one with two ladies in the workplace.  Equal opportunity douchebaggery going on there.

Pac-Man for Atari 2600.  The game looked so cool at the arcade, the music so tight, and then I pop in my Christmas 1982 present into the console, and I get this limp music and limp graphics.  It didn't resemble anything in the video game I had known.  I wasn't able to look at video game advertisements in the same way…

I'm more forgiving of the Black Album and Load, because given where the band was before then, they had no place to go.  There was only so fast that they could play and be meaningful music.  "King Nothing" is one of my favorite Metallica songs, even among the 80s stuff.

I think this period in the music industry can be marked at the beginning by the last of the "Jagged Little Pill" singles in the spring of 1997, and ending with the much-hyped performance by Ricky Martin at the Feb. 1999 Grammys.  (With some other teen pop stars breaking at about the same time.)

I haven't seen classic Simpsons episodes for a long time, so I didn't participate much in the "decline" discussion.  But last week, Grantland did a discussion about their favorite Simpsons clips (Monorail and Homer at the Bat not included because, obviously, everybody sees them as all-time favs).

This was my problem with the episode tonight.  What was the point of kidnapping her to do the light test?  If it was to weaponize Olivia and bring out her powers, it seems like a poorly thought-out plan to just allow her to go supernova and electrocute her way to escape.

I think the scene was a little long and over-explainy (to borrow a term), but given all of the ambiguity of the past several episodes, this was needed to wrap up some loose ends.

I don't know abou that.  The writing and acting in the scene where foggy-memoried Olivia and increasingly dodgy Nina try to conjure up memories seems to mark it as a revelation to Olivia at that moment.  The way Olivia's expression collapses (done very well) during that dialogue appeared to be something the show…

Overheard at the Gettysburg Address:

Ah.  I see, thanks.

In the scene where everyone is in the women's restroom, there's a sign next to the door that had some inside joke, but I couldn't read the whole thing.  It's in the scenes where you see Malory complaining.  Something about explosives, but it looks like something got crossed out.

"And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother."

@skipskatte - that story is about Ruth's first home run ball at Yankee Stadium, which would have been 1921 or 1922 when the old stadium opened.  I could believe that would be something that would have been collected at the time.

According to White Collar's Twitter feed for the past few days, DeKay was a baseball player in the minor leages for a short time.

I can see this as an explanation of the problem.  I can only imagine the storyboard for this episode: 1) Peter and friends are on the boat; 2) Ricky Gervais says some stuff; 3) fish makes up with fish wife.  Everything else was manitee-type humor that could have been in storage for who knows how long.