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Even though I honestly thought he'd died about 5 times already as various bearded Incredible German Hulk types got killed this season.  I loved that the effects work on his face as he burned looked a bit fake and cheap too, it only added to the 80's-ish over-the-top badass moment.

I thought it was an effective way to emphasize that Fiona's big life improvement/advancement is to gain a modicum of stability that others find stifling and dead-end.  The show reels crazily from scene to scene of people scheming and solving crises, so having her plug back into a more recognizable reality helps ground

A-ha ha hahaha haaha ha *muted clapping*

Are we entirely sure that "Going Galt" isn't just autocorrectese for "Gone to mall"?

Explosive tempers.

This impulse is correct, I loved the hell out of it but it hasn't held up when compared to the shows of the past decade. 

I thought they might be doing something vaguely interesting by having the teacher just not like her because she didn't like her.  I hated what they did with that and am kind of stunned that that's the role they gave Tina Fey.

And that little serial killer show that no one liked grew up to be The Following.

The movie opens with a dollhouse style pan from room to room in MI6, showing the different characters at work on their gadgets, briefing, training rooms, enhanced interrogation, etc.  Bond (Jason Schwartzman) is conversing with Q (Bill Murray) about his ambivalence toward participating in the traditional credit

Last week's reunion episode was pretty bad, but the season's been good enough to just let them have that indulgence.  I think the reliance on newly invented history/traditions and the increasing weirdness of Sabrina's past are more troubling.  That said, I can't say where I'd draw the line on the wacky elements since

Given the amount of "Greg Garcia runs his shows into the ground with too much wacky bullshit" talk I've seen regarding My Name is Earl, this *probably* isn't the death blow other showrunner changes can be.

Yeah that was pretty much the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.  Most "gross-out" stuff doesn't do much for me, but even knowing this was staged with prop mucus and whatnot didn't help. 

I took the sheer level of redness to indicate no brushing at all, but I guess that read makes more sense.

It was a decent sight gag, but I don't buy that Sue and Axl wouldn't have brushed their teeth. Axl's too socially aware and Sue's too conscientious, whereas it likely wouldn't even occur to Brick without a reminder.

So much this.

She definitely ought to be just as high-profile as the rest of that cast has become. 

I think the reason Axl is able to maintain his basic decency even when acting in an extremely unsympathetic manner here is because the character is aware he's having a childish overreaction.  He knows it's something he can't control and will have to get used to, but he's having his massive freakout as much to

I think it was finding its stride during the later part of the first season and has been fairly consistently great since.  That said, this season has definitely been their strongest.

I loved that Brick checks his water for crud from the pipes/discolouration as a little throw-away bit at the end of that sequence.

Adam's bizarre, childish crying is one of my favourite recurring elements - as seen tonight when he gets stabbed in the forehead.  These guys are all weird losers, but whenever that comes out you realize just how close to the surface and scary his problems are compared to the other two.