I think it's less a line and more a Venn diagram.

I'm confused…lukewarm bags of piss make you hungry?

I may be the only person on earth whose Pearl Jam collection begins and ends with Yield.

Because the improv "TV" is and always has been crap, and this episode didn't have a rock-solid B plot to redeem it.

Good point. I meant "why *that* Lauper?"

…why the Lauper?

Thing was, I *gave* an explanation. This ain't a restaurant, you don't get to send it back and ask for another if you don't like it.

Even if an Ivy doesn't, it'll be some major private college. Not many folks went to Harvard who needed to be at Harvard to succeed.

Either he wanted to break up with you, or he's willing to outright lie about really important things. You walk either way.

Had an ex demand that I explain why I broke up with her a day after it happened. I repeated what I'd said before - we weren't going anywhere as a couple (after two+ years) and I wanted out. She harangued me for half an hour, and I was just like "this is not a geometry problem, I do not need to provide you with a…

In my case it was someone trying to reshape me to be the appropriate accompaniment to the life she wanted to live, and regarding all my hesitation and resistance and desire to be myself as signs I was too stupid to embrace an *obviously* superior way of living.

If these kids were genuinely financially capable of attending Harvard, I have no doubt they'll get a fine education elsewhere.

I hesitate to call it abuse, just a very selfish partner who was good at pushing boundaries. And it's not that I was incapable of being social or enjoying things, I was just completely checked out of anything romantic. Again, my family is full of people modeling functional depression, I'm just glad that I didn't…

Yep. They could have just dropped in lines about him and his late wife not having kids and wanting to travel, but great stories "show, don't tell". And they told the hale out of Carl and Ellie.

I did the same calculated end of relationship move as Todd. Can't speak for him, but I personally was emotionally checked out for a few years after my divorce and may have never warmed back up if an old friend hadn't approached me. And sadly I have my brother as an example of what my life would have been like…

I think I'm kind of a mutant on this front, because I went through my divorce and cried *once*, missed no time at work beyond court appointments. But I cry at movies on the regular. (Yondu, no!)

If you've ever heard the term "fridging" a character, I consider the whole prelude to be Disney making completely sure that they didn't fridge Ellie.

It's two people having a life together that was good, but didn't let them do one major thing they wanted (have children) and ended too soon to do the other thing they wanted (travel together).

It's a movie that says the best thing about baseball is that it makes people dream and hope. If that sounds super weird to you, it probably won't be your thing.

Your dad ever see the movie?