I was expecting Brian's arc to be short, but it turned out to be even shorter than I thought.  One episode.  I was a little relieved, frankly.  The inevitable "No, nevermind" ending of that arc would've been considerably more frustrating to me if the arc had spanned several episodes.  Just one isn't too bad.

Yep.

I gave the first Brother Sam episode an A- or B+, I forget which.  But other than that, yeah, what you said.

EMMIES FOR EVERYONE!

Biiiiig trouble, here in little D.C.

We got biiiiig trouble, here in little Quahog.

We got biiiiiig trouble, here on little Pan Am.

I concur.

(I always thought he was saying fuqtada; like Muqtada al-Sadr, but with an F and without the al-Sadr.  That's the kind of slang I like to invent.)

N.W.O.R.D. was my favorite part of the show.  Constant hilarity.

Yes, I believe that's what happened.

Ha, I totally didn't get the glory hole baby bump thing.  That is pretty funny.  I assumed someone had just missed the hole and dented the wall or something.  Something about the replete grossness of these PFFR shows makes it really easy to just ignore/barely notice little details like that.

Deezveelvurk, Daynees, deezveelvurk!

My question is this: how was the professor's work on the equation progressing at all?  Just because her husband was opening this time bubble to the past, that wouldn't/shouldn't have made the events of the past play out any differently.  Her research/equation-writing should've ended at the same point every time,…

Dude's money.

However, I would argue that there's still enough ambiguity in terms of exactly what the observers even ARE, that their presence here doesn't necessarily rule anything out.  For example, if Peter actually did create a new universe when he used the machine, then perhaps he also created new copies of the Observers, who…

Yeah, that's what I assumed.  An equal distance, or a distance that fell inline with a Fibonacci sequence somehow.  Of course, if the latter were the case, then there should've been several events really close to the Greens' house before the ones further away happened.  So yeah, probably just an equal/proportional…

I've been wondering the same thing.

The question is, is it possible for a universe to be created by people's actions? It makes sense to me that the activation of the machine created the orange universe, and the blue one is still out there.  And we have to wonder what's been happening there in the meantime.

Time travel and time loops, etc., pretty much always make a story something special, for me. Star Trek, Fringe… umm… I can't think of any other examples, but yeah.