I'd say two more seasons - that would let them end with Luke and Manny's high school graduations, and maybe a Haley/Andy wedding (they can have Andy propose to Haley at the end of next season), and possibly even have Jay retire and hand over the family business to Claire.

Unless they pursue a semi-long distance relationship (or Alex had a last minute change of heart and joins Sanjay at Stanford) unfortunately we probably won't see them together again. And I just don't see a long-distance relationship happening, since only now do they have feelings for each other (had they been…

The two episodes in question ("Grill, Interrupted", when Alex got accepted into CalTech, and "Knock 'em Down", when the dinner conversation occurred) aired in reverse order of production - it's possible they intended to have the conversation happen before Alex got the CalTech acceptance (actually having said all of…

It will never happen but I'd watch an Alex and Sanjay spinoff in a heartbeat.

That was a potential scenario to me even before last night's episode aired - I would have hated Sanjay forever if he had tricked Alex into throwing the race by making her think he liked her, then spurning her afterwards when she tried to reciprocate. Although, truth be told, I did believe him when he first said those…

Alex having less focus than Haley has been going on a lot longer than just this season. I may not have liked everything they've done with her in the past 5 episodes but I'm glad they've finally given her an extended run of stories (and there's more to come in the final two episodes, though probably not quite as much…

Well now my three most favorite episodes ("Under Pressure", "Patriot Games" and "The Wedding, Part Two") have all received only a B grade from the respective reviewers.

Not that I agree with you (I loved that kiss), but if it was awkward at least Alex would have an excuse - sadly it's not like she's had a lot of practice…

I suspect Sanjay did actually win a few awards last week (which we didn't see since that was a small side story and didn't get much time) and that Alex was just being snarky (a little too much so as I said last week) about him being "pass(ed) over" for them.

Most of those award mini-scenes after the first one started with Alex just beginning to speak so we don't know the reaction - the only one that started before that was the "where was I?" speech. And in that one you were right - there was no audible applause from the audience (try saying that three times fast) and…

Alex is my favorite character, but last night her mini-story was easily the worst part of a fairly decent episode. She's been suffering from low self esteem from practically minute one of this season and now suddenly she goes all egotistical over a few awards? I could understand her wanting to let off some steam but…

I would have bet my bottom dollar the tag scene would have involved Phil playing Ms. Pac-Man.

Joe's about 2 1/4 now.

It was especially bad how Jay threw Cam under the bus after saying he respected him for trying to pass Jay off as gay because he wanted to beat his rival and win the trophy.

Well we knew Cam wasn't that great a bowler - remember how excited he said he was (he wanted to kiss a reluctant Mitch) when he almost got a turkey (three strikes in a row) back in "The Kiss"?

That's a foul in candlepin bowling (that mutated form of bowling played up here in New England).

At the start of the Dunphy story, did anybody else think either 1) Phil was selling Ronnie and Amber's house again (i.e. they were moving out), or 2) the statue was Ronnie and Amber's?

Consider this post a virtual 10,000 upvote of your post (ditto to the OP and the 2nd reply as well) - that's exactly what I was hoping for since hearing about this plot. The line about that last strike not being a six was pretty good, though.

Especially the blellow ones…

I still hope that they aren't going in that direction with Alex (I'd call my thoughts from last week a "fear" and not a "prediction"), but, yes it was disturbing she went that way again (although at least she acknowledged that it was not a good idea to do so). It was a lot more troubling than Manny and Luke drinking…