"Please explain to me the scientific nature of the Whammy"

The fact that there's bad blood for the rich family because they were ruthlessly business minded reminds me of the first couple of seasons of Smallville, where that was precisely the reason the Luthors weren't very popular. Another dysfunctional family as well. Not to mention a main character who looks older and more…

Theories:
1) Cheryl and Jason planned it as a way of seeking attention, but when Jason didn't show up in spirit, only in waterlogged corpse, she knew it had gone wrong. The pep rally may have been when he was supposed to reveal himself, since that was when Cheryl broke down (that and seeing a redhead run onto the field…

He's done audio work as well, playing Victor Frankenstein as well as a Dark Shadows story (Speak No Evil).

What about the Secret Bar?

Or he's half-Silent. No one knows who his father is.

They dragged the whole Paul thing out until the final scene and even then Rory didn't do anything to resolve it? It should have been resolved in the first episode, with Paul calling Rory out on her crap treatment of him, which could have helped her growing lack of confidence that hits a peak in Spring. The whole thing…

This highlights Lorelei's pride more than it does any character flaws Rory has. The main reason Lorelei went to her parents in the pilot was because it was for Rory rather than herself. She reluctantly went to the Friday Night Dinners despite how badly they usually turned out because that kept Rory at Chilton.

A Mary Sue is someone who renders other characters redundant by having the skills and abilities the other characters normally use. Rory doesn't run a business better than Lorelei, play drums better than Lane or cook better than Sookie. Most examples we see of her journalistic works don't match up to her reputation as…

This was foreshadowed in Winter, when more was said about the design of the website than the content itself. Had Rory been even slightly serious about this job rather than as a last resort for something to cling on to she'd had at least done a skim read, picked up that it was a Buzzfeed-y website instead of the…

Where's Matt? Also, when did Mystic Falls get back up and running after the vampire takeover last season? After last season went to great pains to make it a hostile place, including making it a no-go area, there's been nothing on it's revitalisation.

They lampshaded the time it takes to make the episode in a Krusty the Klown show (about an Itchy and Scratchy parodying Black Swan). Normally the delayed homages/spoofs/parodies are in the Treehouse of Horrors. They did Avatar in the 2011 THoH and Paranormal Activity several years ago. I think the Transformers was in…

They sort of did the Initative plotline back in the first half of season five, with that doctor guy at Whitmore experimenting on vampires (which is were Damon and Enzo met, before Enzo was left wandering in search of a place in the plot).

Correction, that's a Prima reference.

#teamKirkDoingWhatHeDoesBest

What really made the episode was the fact that Homer and Lisa showed real emotion in the face of a real threat, the home invasion. There was also that emotional storyline of Lisa learning to grow out of the childhood stuffed toy, something I'm sure many parents will recognise.

Just like visiting Grandpa, once in a blue moon.

Surely there's no harm in laying in the middle of a public street.