I actually stopped by to comment on the Prison Break article for auld lang syne, but that's been about it for me the last few years.

This is how it started, and I'm pretty sure Koski would claw her eyes out and douse the sockets with tequila if she could see what's become of it. Probably that dork with the firstie would too.

I agree with everything you said up to the word "unwatchable." Season 4 was one of the definitive so-bad-it's-awesome seasons of television, compressing a season's worth of reverses and betrayals into every half-episode. It's plotting by the Old Spice Guy: "Look at me. I'm the guy you spent an entire season…

Seen all of it and it's a show that you absolutely should see, although I don't like it that much. After reading TODDDDDDDD!!! brilliant reviews, I've concluded that I'm not depressed enough to appreciate it.

Don't know it very well, but I do enjoy Electronic's "Patience of a Saint," bringing together Bernard Sumner, Johnny Marr, and Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. They're just one Robert Smith short of a post-punk Traveling Wilburys.

"Leave Me Alone," "Ceremony," "Temptation," "Dreams Never End," "Bizarre Love Triangle," "Elegia," "Regret"

"I want you to know that's not a dealbreaker."

It wobbles in the middle and then comes back in the end for the ol' Whedon knife-to-the-heart and the second-greatest series finale in television.

Then you damn well better be scheduling, otherwise one part of your life takes over and another one gets neglected.

Take notes and review them; schedule your week and stick to it as much as possible.

—Alright alright, who did I leave in charge of this radio station?
—I'm sorry sir.
—No I'm really asking, I forget these things.

Following @avclub-7fd1d5cec910c61b1864a51eb7e18cbc:disqus: that was Donna Bowman on the NewsRadio writeups, which are the finest writing the AVC has ever produced. (The only competition are Noel Murray's Buffy/Angel reviews.)

Get on any and all of that shit right now, friendo. (EDIT: The West Wing's "Celestial Navigation" is one the funniest hours of television ever.)

Arrested Development, NewsRadio, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, WKRP in Cincinnati, The West Wing (which is a great sitcom precisely because Aaron Sorkin never recognized it as such). The Simpsons is too culturally omnivorous to be classified as a sitcom.

It Randall Munroe at xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comic… Me inescapably do it now also.

Used this as far back as college (identifying yourself on the VAX shared computers, the name had to be 15 letters max) and took it from Peter Gabriel's song.

My favorite characters—Giles, Ronnie Gardocki, Private Joker—are all like that: self-knowing, which means knowing their own evil. They're always secondary characters, because you can't write the journey to recognition for characters that have already done it.

"She's a hero, you see. She's not like us" is one of the greatest moments of ownage that ever was ever. We're talking Kurosawa-level shit here.

That's what I meant—if I'm wrong than it wasn't misdirection, but my misreading.

Right, which is why we should know next week whether or not this works—if that's misdirection or just what's happening.