Yeah, staging a sit-in on Thanksgiving isn't so much on-the-nose as much as it is media savvy. Not only is a lot not going on news-wise, but it's got a built in hook. Lazy writers would love to fill column inches with Indians getting thrown out of the White House on Thanksgiving.

It always kind of looks someone walking by shoots him a bird when he's eating that pizza. (This may have been covered last season and I missed it. If so, I apologize.)

Anti-Obama stickers don't impress me. Anyone can blow $10 and cover the back of their car with that shit. I like the people that hand-paint stuff in the rear window of their pickup truck. (Not to stereotype, but you never see that in a Prius. "Free Leonard Peltier" maybe, but not "NOBAMA".)

That might have made for a better joke, that Louie would be considered rich by most people, but the thing that he wants is so far beyond what he can afford. (It's a very American thing, no one thinks they're poor and no one thinks they're rich, except the top and bottom 1%. The middle 98% think they're middle class.)

Thanks for that. I can't say my enjoyment of the episode was noticeably hampered by missing that line, but I guess he had to say something.

Well, Nate's back in town.

I liked that Fry got a nice moment of competence there.

I liked it, but I didn't really laugh until the "bunch of drugs" line.

I enjoyed this one…
I didn't call the guy being undercover, and it made for a nice curve late in the episode. They have kind of gotten away from the kit-bashing, but I guess maybe after four seasons Michael's made everything.

He'll always be the other ship captain in "Out of Gas" to me.

I'd nitpick a few of those, Skip. Granted, you knew Vic Mackey wasn't going to get killed, but pretty much anyone else on The Shield could have bad things happen to them at any time. I used to get stress stomachaches watching that show.

I don't know, but he was on SNL last season and he looked like a wax dummy of Dana Carvey that was granted life for one more shot on tv. It was not unlike the time I was flipping through the channels and saw Joan Rivers on a tv show and spent several minutes trying to decide if it was actually Joan Rivers, a Joan…

I enjoyed this episode. It did go to a darker place with the Maddie and Michael stuff, but I thought it worked.

Nice try, Azrael, but a bot commenter made the same point upthread. Granted, it was a day and a half after yours, but it also included some personal details so I'm inclined to take its side on this one.

How do you confuse two actresses on an animated show?

The best AD episodes come together like a really good murder mystery, all the elements are put in play seemingly at random but come together at the end in a way that makes it seem inevitable. I'd think they'd have to start with the endpoint in mind, but who knows? One thing about people who are really good at what…

The only good thing associated with FF was the Chappelle Show skit.

You can't go full Kruschev but you can go full Big Angry Baby, and it's basically the same impression.

I wish there was some phrase that would express how little I care about this particular issue, but I can't think of one.

Whenever I sign someone's cast— which seems to come up more than you'd think— I always sign "Stinkbutt".