I will forever love Easy-Bake Coven, if only because every time some religious nutjob starts railing against gay marriage or something because "it's against the Bible!" I inevitably think, "The Bible says a lot of things. Shove her!"

"Crapbag". ;)

@avclub-24f6f7a488efc0455e1cb95aea962bed:disqus I can't give them too much credit for that though, since they thought going into Season Nine, when he was introduced, that it would be the last one and it was very much a throw-a-guy-at-Phoebe-at-the-last-minute thing (especially after Season 8, where Phoebe had…

It looks like there aren't any current showrunners. The writers in charge of Season 4 had a one-season deal, and turned down an offer to return.

@intangible_fancy:disqus Yes, and he succeeded. The credits confirmed it was the same actor.

Not "who is watching this". Presumably they had some intended audience in mind, and they had to assume the gays would comprise a large portion of that audience. So what's with screwing over the gay characters?

So in SMASH World, the straights all wind up paired up (even if it means hauling in love interests—even the adulterous ones—from last season) while the gays end up dead or hitting on straight guys and ultimately alone.

@avclub-de9878e9d33c60263a094abc94fab3f0:disqus   Yeah, I loved June already, but she's really knocking it out of the park in these. The fake James/Chloe fight in "The Seven Year Bitch"? Brilliant. Going nuts over the warehouse sale? Perfection. She really is my favorite character.

Yes, "The Leak" is from season 1, and then "Monday June" and "Teddy Trouble" should have come before "Dating Games" (the last aired ABC episode). And then Hulu has the final five episodes after that posted in order. So, yeah, they're all posted in order…it's just that ABC already aired ones that should have been…

(This reply is to "no one," but I don't know how to do that thing where you post a link to the person's name.)
I'm pretty sure most of us are taking the Shivrang revelation as nothing more than a lazy attempt by the writers to make Cece look less like an asshole for dumping him at the altar. If she really did ditch a…

Geez, Cece is a major jerk. Consistently tells Schmidt she doesn't want him, strings along another guy, dumps other guy at the altar, then demands Schmidt pick her/take her back when she knows he's dating someone else (and does it in front of the other woman!) minutes after ending her wedding.

It's mentioned in the review. She's Cristin Milioti, recently of "Once" on Broadway. She previously played Abby Flynn/Grossman on a memorable episode of 30 Rock.

Not as glorious as I imagine your meltdown will be when you're here next Sunday, desperately refreshing the AV Club, waiting for the review so you can read the comments for those meltdowns you're expecting. "Where is it?…Where IS it??? WHERE IS IT???"

…and looks at an advertisement for his own series (which I presume was a Bombshell poster when this aired). Wacky!

A few weeks ago when they showed that Charlie failed to kill Huck for no discernible reason, I thought it was kind of stupid. But if it was actually foreshadowing the fact that Charlie is an assassin who doesn't bother killing the people he's supposed to, hinting at tonight's revelation, then I'm impressed.

According to a purported insider on another board, his death was planned from the beginning. The season was pitched as a tacky "Rent" ripoff from the start, and Kyle's only reason for existing as a character was to die.

He didn't use the Boston bombing as an excuse, because it had nothing to do with that. NBC sent the press release announcing the episode had been pulled on the morning of the marathon—before the bombing even took place. The writer even acknowledges this in the piece, which makes the whole article pointless since it…

The article acknowledges that Fuller pulled the episode BEFORE the Boston bombing (something Deadline noted the day it was announced—the press release went out that morning before the bombing took place)…so why is it titled in a way that claims it was pulled after it? What's the point of the essay if it's premised on…

At this point Leonard's been living with Sheldon for almost 11 years (if we go by the fact that Firefly was on when he moved in). Even if something relatively minor is what finally pushed him over the edge, Sheldon has more than earned that slap by now.

Leonard slapping Sheldon was one of the most satisfying things this show has delivered in its entire run. Even if I hadn't found most of the rest of the episode utterly charming (which I did), that would be enough to earn it a high grade.