I have a feeling his wife is used to him smacking people on the butt (men and women). Being a butt smacker doesn’t really seem like the type of thing you dabble in.

Ignoring the ass-grab for a moment, a young reporter at small local network gets an opportunity to be on a network news program -- this could be her big break! -- and she doesn’t have her thoughts together enough to avoid saying “um” 15 times.

The other difference is that companies like Verizon pump out dozens and dozens of different TV spots throughout the year in order to communicate the latest offer or new speeds & feeds. They’re relatively inexpensive to produce and, yes, there isn’t a ton of thought put into it.

I thought the same thing. They could have had two seconds in the opening showing her on the couch while her husband was making breakfast with her daughter, and then two seconds at the end showing them all making breakfast as a family, right before she delivers the “it changed me” line. That line (plus the manic faces)…

I’ve never been a casting director, but I have been on the corporate brand side for years. The casting director may not like a particular commercial he’s associated with, but the client REALLY isn’t going to like that he now has a history of speaking out publicly about the brands he represents.

The best ads require a company spokesperson to explain it.

Clearly, Pelaton sees married men as their primary buying audience. If I’m trying to interpret Pelaton’s marketing choices, I’d guess the top two objections they get from that audience are:

Every time he gets his armor forged, he has a flashback to what appears to be him as a child, under attack by the Separatists’ droid army; what appears to be his mother hides him and (presumably) is killed.

Exactly. “Rushing it” is the difference between it being an homage to the A-Team versus a quality storyline. Also, I never want to see a training montage again.

It’s going to suck when we get the next Knights of Ren flashback in The Rise of Skywalker and we witness toddler Yoda get beheaded by Kylo Ren.

I kept thinking throughout the episode: “I’m pretty sure this exact same script was used in an episode of A-Team.” (subbing spaceships for BA’s van)

Exactly! Truthfully, I think the storyline pacing on the Mandalorian has been fantastic. Every scene feels like it has plenty of time to breathe, yet the show has moved along briskly.

The idea of calling him “Li’l Yogurt” is mixed. Some will call the idea berry good. Others will say it is vanilla.

That was my take. Though I wouldn’t pitch it as Boba Fett doing TED talks on bounty hunter best practices. Remember, Han Solo was framed in carbonite on Jabba’s wall for ... like a year (or whatever the timeframe was), so a lot of undesirables would have seen that, and Jabba’s enjoyment of it, and began replicating.

2) Star Wars is not usually so great with female characters. We’re basically fourth class citizens in the world of Star Wars stories, behind men, male aliens, and male robots.

I loved The Mandalorian, but this was my only nitpick (and it is a nitpick). So “some species age more slowly than others”? I always thought Yoda was 900 years old because he was so in tune with the force, not because his species ages at 1/100th of the pace of humans.

The Middle was doomed by its title. Which is unfortunate, because it was simply one of the best (and most consistent) family-friendly comedies of the decade with an amazing cast.

This deserves all of the stars.

The Walking Dead makes me sad. The show premiered in 2010, making it ideal for this list. If the show had gone off the air in 2013, where does it rank on this list ... probably top 10, right? The first couple seasons were amazing both from artistic and storytelling perspectives.

I guess it comes down to HOW unbalanced they are. If the 20-sided die lands on “20" 5.00000001% of the time ... well, meh, that’s fine. But if it lands on “20" even 5.1% of the time, then you’ve got a pretty paperweight, because - yeah - you’re losing out on the implied randomness of a die.