i think the reason people remember 3 so fondly is because it seemed crazy it would be any good at all, 11 years after 2. those lowered expectations and the big swing at the end (and the fact that you presumably saw it as a fully developed adult) means its remembered a lot more clearly and emotionally.

We’re starting off strong [...] the return of the unhinged Colleen Rafferty

I’m the guy who owns the market and I’m terribly shy, so they gave me this technical he-elp...

This is crazy. Have you ever watched either of them? Ken’s interaction with the contestants is much better than Mayim’s. After a contestant tells a personal anecdote, Ken will respond with a witty or thoughtful comment. Mayim invariably laughs and responds “That’s great!” She’s slow to confirm answers, and can’t stop…

I hope this at least costs her her position as spokeswoman for the Ham Council!

Not sure why you think Widmore or the Man in Black knew about the sideways universe. Widmore was just an acolyte of Jacob and doing his bidding blindly. Desmond was Jacob’s failsafe in case the candidates failed. That part is admittedly hazy but that itself explains why MIB was trying to kill Desmond. I did not get the…

Jesus Christ, we’re still pretending the LOST finale was bad, or ambiguous, or didn’t answer any question you could reasonably have? Get an opinion that isn’t a decade old meme, I’m begging you. One of the GOAT finales. Basically all the common criticisms betray a complete lack of understanding of what actually…

Jesus fucking Christ, people.

I’d die happy if the term “reality show” was consigned to the dustbin of history.

The quote you used by Colin just showed the pretty big error you made (“My very first Whose Line show, my daughter was two months old, and she just turned 32") This show has been on since 1988, show some respect to the OG BBC Whose Line! Tony Slattery demands it!

That’s the point. Judge Wargrave tells Dr. Armstrong that the plan is to “rattle” the murderer and make him incriminate himself. The doctor is led to imagine that on discovering the body, the murderer will say something like, “How can he be dead? I didn’t kill him yet!” Or will at least be confused, thrown off his…

His entire monologue was thinly veiled “whining unfunnily about his own personal grievances at getting criticized”. That's ALL it was. 

What do humor and a uterus have in common? Amy Schumer lacks both.

Even with that, though, I always got the impression that if Topanga ever just, like, ripped open a raincoat to show nothing underneath and said “I’m yours, do to me what you will,” Cory would have made some kind of a gurning face, made a Curly-esque nyeh-nyeh-nyeh noise, and run screaming in the opposite direction.

They are literally the animal with the most number of species! I mean, did people in the movie (which I haven’t seen) see a ladybug or a stag beetle and say OMG! What is that?

Another sitcom with the damn “will they won’t they?” BS.  Just ONCE I want the answer to be NO, NO they won’t. 

How lovely, to believe in magic. I left our conversation feeling less jealous of Grote’s ability to commune with actual spirits than I am of her confidence in her own intuition.

Ghosts do not exist. Why would your beloved grandmother who is desperate to speak to you from the afterlife go through a medium and not give her any other clues aside from - “I’m getting someone who’s name begins with K, or L, or MNOPQ?”

That skill is called the Barnum effect - general characterisations attributed to an individual are perceived to be true for them, even though the statements are such generalisations that they could apply to almost anyone.

I did a quick google on the author’s handle just to see what I could hot-read on them, and thanks…

Honestly, everything that fortune teller said - “because of your depression you have a hard time seeing how well you’re actually doing”, “you attract both good and bad things and people”, “I am constantly seeing the effects of karma and while I don’t deliver it myself, I don’t try to stop it when I see the Karma…