Tony and Randall make me think of "Maximum Homerdrive."  So, uh… The Simpsons?

Let's not forget Whisker Wars, in which mutants with fully-articulated and well-armed mustaches and beards fight for control of the mustache comb mines of the American midwest.  I believe this episode has the Iranian guy's beard building gas centrifuges on his neck.

Yep, that certainly does add up.  I hope they don't go that way though.  As I said in an earlier post, that actor is no more charismatic than Colin Hanks.  I guess he could turn out to be better when he really gets his creep on, but I kinda… eh.  I'm tired of big bads.  How many serial killers can one city have?

Ha, that did seem a little easy.  But it was just a flower shop, after all.  I can imagine that actually happening.

Well done!  Two excellent puns in the span of four threads.  This is some good discussion.

"But what if Dexter decides that (at least right now) he's a lost cause for religion but gets his son to go to church regularly so he may obtain some moral compass."

Well done!

Lithgow was two years ago.

Approved!

My opinion of this episode is similar to Barney's opinion of "Madman Moe's Pressure Cooker."

I would hope it's the Arabic agent, 'cuz he's the obvious suspect, but not in a hacky kind of way.  Estes or Saul as the mole would be clever like 15 years ago, but now it would be super-hacky.  Arabic agent, that's not especially interesting, but a "mole" plot doesn't have to be interesting or surprising anymore.…

Oh, I do.

Don't know what to say.  These truly are the end times.

You keep torching Olmos as an actor in general just for doing a bad job with this one, very poorly-written role.  Stop doing that.  Everyone has appeared in something shitty.

All very good ideas.  Although I liked Jaime Murray more than you apparently did.

I enjoyed the first two episodes of this season pretty well.  Takes a little longer than that to identify a season's overall terribleness.

I thought he showed just the wrong amount of emotion in that scene.  I think either remaining indifferent or totally cursing Louis out (something like he did with Lila that one time) would've been appropriate, but the righteous indignation was not.

Those people weren't JUST religious; they were clearly also looney to begin with.  Those traits aren't mutually exclusive, nor is this show claiming they're mutually inclusive either.

That reminded me of the "Teegan is a hoe-bag" frat-party scene from season 3.  Pretty much exactly the same, except with a younger slut making the funny slurs.

They went away a few episodes into season 5.  Astor came back for one episode, later that season, with her abused friend.  And in the finale, Astor and Cody came back and said they wanted to stay for the summer with Dexter, which I thought would lead to, "Oh, this isn't so bad," and they'd be back with him…