Thank you - that was probably the most troubling aspect of that story (aside from the fact it wasn't funny at all) - they were clearly impaired yet they were allowed on not one but two planes with no/few questions asked (let alone whatever happened that caused Cam to get and try to bring that dog on the second plane,…

I'd bet against an episode airing on 3/29. The season finale is either 9 or 10 weeks away (5/17 or 5/24, probably the former) which probably sets up as two or three weeks off, two new episodes in April, two more weeks off, then the final three for May sweeps.

There's something off about her being missing this week (which I saw coming as soon as I saw the promo commercial with everyone else in the Dunphy house but her reacting to Luke's rejections). I wonder if Ariel asked for that week off for some reason.

I thought he went back up to the cabin and got locked inside that room again.

I'd love to, but I'd probably get fired for it.

I wouldn't be surprised if she left the show even if it does get renewed next season (my Magic 8-Ball is a bit fuzzy about that, given that we've heard this past week that negotiations are getting hairy) - I think she's ready to move on to the next stage of her life (I do think/hope she has loftier goals than a social…

Or Lily, for that matter (her line about being out of town when Mitch and Cam fought about getting rid of the Fizbo costume spoke volumes about her season).

Based off the last two weeks, if they bump off Alex it won't even rate a mention in the episode synopsis.

I doubt Alex is going to stay a manager for long - even as driven she is, how is she going to balance a 50-60 hour workweek with a full course load at CalTech? I hope she has Dr. Clark on speed dial.

I'm pretty sure (420%?) she said she was back (In real life CalTech's winter term started back on January 4th so she should have been back by now).

It's a sitcom - why do things the easy way when you can get 30 minutes of misunderstandings out of doing it the hard way?

Kyle totally nailed it about Alex and Haley - they've been pretty much been left out in the cold most of this season (more so with Alex IMO, but Haley hasn't exactly gone forward this season either). I could sort of understand them being sacrificed a bit if there was a deeper focus on Luke and Manny going through…

I'll be interested to see if this real estate investment story goes anywhere after this week. If it does I hope it goes better for Jay than an investment his alter ego attempted - I'd hate to see him or Joe have an arm fall off while going fishing in a man-made pond that Phil will probably add.

I've never liked Rainer, and tonight he showed his true colors - I'm calling Bravo Sierra on his "story". Haley deserves better, even Dylan.

She would've missed at least 2-3 weeks of classes and she felt she would've fallen so far behind there wasn't any chance she could catch up. I suppose she could've worked doubly hard and at least passed her courses, but we know by Alex's standards that wouldn't have been good enough. Plus having a solid knowledge of…

In "Grab It" she applied for a barista job in the coffee shop where she and that book's author had coffee after the lecture. Unfortunately they've basically ignored her since (there have been two stories partially set at that coffee shop since she started, but very little about how her life is going there, save for…

Well 45.95% of the voters are, while 48.04% are merely morons.

That was such a weak mini-plot that even Sarah and Ariel looked like they were just going through the motions out of sheer boredom - talented as they both are their crying about their predicament was about as unconvincing a performance as I've seen from either of them.

If it had been a "Miami Vice" themed music festival, I would have been more worried about having 40 grand in my possession.

Haley had locked herself out of her car (in the beginning of the show Claire got a text from her in the midst of a bunch of texts from Marjorie).