I had just finished writing a defense of British panel shows when I saw your post. @midnight wasn't even the first to try it on American airwaves (remember the failed Graham Norton hosted Would You Rather on BBC America?), but it was the first to have American comics who actually understood the format.

I am so glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. What the hell we that about?

The dangers of not knowing the proper terminology of ecclesiastical headwear.

I physically recoiled when I read the line about the apron. Gag inducing.

Many. I watched it just the other day. To say I liked it may be overstating it, but it certainly isn't the worst film I've ever seen. In an interview, Bill Pullman responded to someone who had asked about the two of them getting mixed up by telling them Brain Dead was "mandatory viewing" for asking.

Death is gonna have to pry Bill Pullman out of my cold, dead hands.

They talk about going to those places, but I don't think that's where they're living (I hang out in EAV and Poncey Highlands all the time, but I sure as shit can't afford to live in either neighborhood). In the first episode I think they mention Alfred is living in an apartment on Glenwood. It's definitely ITP, but…

I'd say given our city's demographics, having it set where it is is much more representative of the majority of Atlantans than it would be were it to be set in Midtown.

Not just any chicken, sir, those were JR Crickets lemon pepper wings with sauce. I'd be tearing up too.

I don't know, I thought Jim Broadbent was fantastic as Slughorn. Much as I love Fry, it would have felt more like "and here's Stephen Fry as Slughorn" in every scene. He doesn't disappear into roles in the way that Broadbent does.

Speaking as a very traditional Catholic, I love him and have loved him since he was was on the Daily Show and I know quite a few other traditionalist Catholics who feel likewise.

The end of this series remains to be an iconic episode (and finale, specifically) in British television. It was, for example, the inspiration for that amazing Sherlock Holmes sketch at the end of the fourth series of That Mitchell and Webb Look.

She is nothing short of beautiful in series 2. I want a whole series with just her and Peter Capaldi. I need no one else.

Infancy Gospel of Thomas. I'd watch the shit out of that. I mean, who doesn't want this: "Later he was going through the village again when a boy ran by and bumped him on the shoulder. Jesus got angry and said to him, 'You won't continue on your journey.' And all of a sudden he fell down and died."

That might have been the biggest laugh for me in the entire episode. I really didn't expect him to indulge in the silliness. It kept him in character, though, because he could argue it was just a strategy to calm the family down, but it gave him a bit of a mischivous edge as well.

I'd recommend watching In the Loop first, that way you don't have the TTOI characters in your head as you watch (because they aren't actually the same people, even though they kind of are). It sets the stage for TTOI.