As I have been able to watch many, many old Simpsons episodes that have been out of syndication forever thanks to FXX, I just figured I would chime in here in assent with the reviewer.

"Three Times a Lady" is also the song Newman sings when his mail truck picks up the sewing machine, and the sparks cause the paint thinner Kramer spilled on the road to ignite his mail truck - the very same mail truck he was using to deliver fish to the restaurant that refused to deliver to Elaine!

Wow, Todd really went out of his way to praise this episode. While it is important in a lot of ways, it is just not a good hour of TV.

That was about the only thing I liked about this episode. As soon as Tony goes back to her house, she brings up the business with Hesh and the racetrack. It's fairly obvious she's looking for money, but we're not sure if A. she's going to have the stones to really dig in and try to get it, and B. if Tony will…

You gotta do it, for Ox, and Asa, and Griff, and Burnsy! Well, not so much Burnsy.

I agree that the season overall was strong, but I really have to wonder if they can keep this show interesting for another 3 years. Howard's relationship with Bernadette kept the character of Howard interesting by forcing him to grow up and away from his mother, and in that context, his mother (or more to the point,…

This was the least funny episode in a while, and I don't know if it's because I'm being more critical, or because the episode simply wasn't funny. I think perhaps it was too much to ask for the show to carry the emotional weight it did (which it did well), while still being funny, so the B grade was deserving; more…

Don't forget Gaer Grimsrud. We stop at pancakes house.

Why are you not grading the episodes? Are you afraid of hate-comments from people when you reveal how awful and unfunny this show truly was?

As someone with an addict in the family, these scenes hit home.  I have very little sympathy for Jesse.  I want him to succeed, sure, but it should be painfully obvious that the way he lies and uses his family is awful.  The way he promises he can change and listen to the wake-up call, and then turns the switch to the…

Taking him back in no way means her criticism of him is weak.  It might make her a weak person, but that's a different argument.  It's most certainly not weak to say to your spouse "you better come to counseling if you want to keep this marriage going."  It's also not weak to go and make out with your neighbor because…

The Batista point is a good one as well.  I just think people ought to think before trashing the whole series because of how it ended.  I admit that once a TV show gets so bad that none of its characters are even acting believably, it's hard not to let that tarnish the image of the show as a whole.  And the more I…

I can't respond below, but it's serious revisionism to characterize Rita's complaints as "weak."  She forced him into rehab, and then into marriage counseling a mere 6 months after they were married.  At one point she told him he was worse than Paul as a husband and father.  She was willing to excuse, or at least…

Has anyone else ever wondered why nobody in Miami ever thought to install a security system? 

That's not true.  Rita complained all the time that Dexter was a selfish asshole and a shitty husband and dad.  I realize that only covers the first half of the series, but still.  I'm not going to argue that the writers didn't completely botch Deb's character after the failed murder-suicide attempt, but that hardly…

I still can't quite reconcile the criticism that the writers never held Dexter's feet to the fire, with the fact that his behavior got his wife and sister killed, and that he has been shown countless times as a shitty father to Harrison, after being a shitty substitute dad for Astor and Cody.  Astor and Cody who, by…

I don't know if you read comments to nearly-two-year-old episode reviews or not, but I've been reading through many of your reviews, and while I think they are pretty spot on and well-written, a point that keeps bugging me is how you keep bringing up the writers' supposed inability to paint Dexter's killings in…

Upon re-watching this season, I can't believe how much more satisfying this ending was than any other part of the series.  Watching the final scene between Dexter and Trinity now realizing already that Arthur had killed Rita, Lithgow's performance looks even better.  When Dexter says he'll never be like Trinity, and…

Not necessarily.  There are some good bits in Season 7.  Watch the Season 6 finale up until, say, episode 7 or 8 of season 7.  There's a natural stopping point in season 7 where you can walk away from the series satisfied that you saw all of the must-see parts of it.