In other news: doesn't it kind of figure that some of those Mexicans were among the women that Cartman had brought to town himself?

I couldn't help but feel that a big shoe was being thrown at Austin, and I loved it. After all, we have not just spring-loaded condo magnets SoCo (South Congress), SoLa (South Lamar) and whatever the hell the gentrifiers are calling South First, but the Whole Foods World Headuarters are just north of the lake, on the…

Or Ellen Pompeo cringing about relationships, which could come straight out of Darby Stanchfield.

Except that this is the first episode of the season. You seem to be suggesting that it all has to happen at once. How are they supposed to go about fleshing out a supporting character in the first forty-eight minutes of the full-season commitment? Really, between the end of last season and the start of this, not…

She appeared to have missed a step or 12.

You were better off not knowing, IMO.

And Shonda is making the "case/client/patient-of-the-week" way too simple these days. I nailed all three shows in the first five minutes of each. Is it possible to be too smart for episodic television?

… and Fitz is a stupid asshole …

I love Shonda Rhimes, but I don't feel that Shonda deserves to skate without some criticism; she's not bulletproof, nor is she a flawless messianic creature. She's a TV writer.

… it feels completely natural and not self-congratulatory on the writers’ parts.

I still maintain that Lythgoe in particular pushes agendae and doesn't even try to hide it. He wanted a ballet winner. Sandvig survived as long as she did because of the Breast Cancer dance, but she wasn't going to get much further than she did. It seemed curious to me that the one year that two winners were declared…

The novelty of being the only tap dancer worked in her favor once the competition began, and I fully believe that Gaby’s tap routine with Zach last week cemented her win.

I like to think so.
;-)

Well, that first part figured, since neither of them had graduated yet. Nelson was so far removed from high school by then that the immersion was the best way to go about it.

Very true. That isn't to say that Molly Ringwald and I were somehow different in our desire to bang a young James Spader.

Apropos of nothing: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and I are the same age, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez are six years older, abd judd Nelson is eight years older. Funny to think that the five of them wouldn't have been in high school at nearly the same time. In fact, Hall would have been finishing high school…

… but in the grand scheme of things they'd probably grow out of them and move on to relatively normal, boring lives.

With their asscheeks duct-taped together.

The adolescent angst of The Breakfast Club still resonates 30 years later

I don't know all that much about Libby Masters, but "Libby Masters" has me feeling really hateful, and this episode has cemented my full-on dislike of the character. 1971 can't come fast enough.