So Zach's mom: bipolar, dissociative identity disorder, or traumatic brain injury? The first doesn't really match the memory loss and angry phone call, I'm not sure I want to see the show try and handle the second, so I'm hoping for the last. Do we know Zach's last name? Maybe it's Gage.

Predictions update: I no longer think Mariana's new boyfriend is going to be gay, and I actually, really, really like the way he's playing the character now. I think he's doing a great job subtly deviating from gender norms without acting like every tv character five episodes before they come out.

I could not follow her this episode, trying to get close with Brandon, then trying to get rid of him, then trying to make him feel welcome, all while not actually doing anything so obviously sinister that I'm sure we're suppose to root against her. @avclub-989ca0fe3ec0682c7349593ff5feb4a4:disqus 's theory that she's…

I think they think they've let Brandon hit rock bottom and they're bringing him back now. He'll be most of the way back (in the writers' intentions) when BRIBING A WITNESS comes back up.

Well sure, I wasn't saying all those shows depicted exactly the same thing exactly as well in exactly the same way, just that the characters on them would qualify as working class and it informed the show in some way. I deliberately excluded Parks & Rec even though none of those characters would make much money…

I don't know if working-class protagonists are really all that rare on network sitcoms: I don't see how Enlisted and Brooklyn 99 fail to qualify, New Girl deals with money issues as seriously as it deals with anything, the Goldbergs look middle class (I don't watch), there's the aforementioned The Middle, Mom, Two…

With a Damien-less return from its Olympic hiatus, is it possible he's returned to his home planet?

I didn't think they revealed she gave him the money like a sinister thing she did to integrate herself more into the family or to bribe him for keeping her lack of sobriety a secret, but as a way to protect Mike. Granted, I've been raving about how incredibly dangerous this all was for Mike, so I might have read what…

I actually thought the girlfriend played it right: you can't tell a cop you committed a really serious crime on his behalf. "Hey cop dad, I sped on my way over here" is fine, "Hey cop dad, I bribed a witness to get you out of trouble" is sending someone (probably cop dad) to jail.

Yeah that's how I read it too.

Mariana was popular at the start of the show, but something something Kelsie something something drug dealing and now she doesn't have any friends.

I got my first kidney stone when I was 17, so I'm supposed to drink a lot of water. I always have a reusable liter bottle with me, and I drink 5-8 liters a day, so my urine spends most of the day very clear. Saying that's a sign of water intoxication is like saying having a car is a sign of drunk driving.

Wait, you DON'T like how ABC Family ends its shows on cool little moody not-quite-scenes over the credits? It's one of my favorite things about their house style, and it gave us Istanbul (Not Constantinople) and the Stef-gets-shot cliffhanger.

Now that he's on the 40-man, doesn't he no longer get tested for marijuana use anyways?

She's terrible on that show, which I otherwise really like. Just mugging all over the place. They've started to write to it, but she just torpedoes my enjoyment of that show nearly any minute she's on screen.

6 years is, what, half as old as the operating system still on almost all of their cable boxes? You know, the one that still has to rely on abbreviating movie titles even though it's 2014?

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Sure, a company could set a lower than optimal price to increase market share, but that still wouldn't be affected by a fixed cost. You set prices to maximize your goals, be it market share or profit, not somehow reduce money you've already paid for something.

Rising fixed costs doesn't have anything to do with the price to the consumer. Companies set a price that maximizes profit. They will always set a price that they think will get them the most money, so there's no reason this will raise prices. However, the price hasn't gone up in a while, has it? Wouldn't surprise me…