They're hustling us!

This episode was actually pretty decent - it had a few genuinely funny jokes (such as Moe mentioning that his cover issue of "Giving Up" magazine was the last one they ever made) and seemed to possess far more self awareness than the show usually does these days. It actually reminded me a little of the most recent…

"Cruelty free carrots" actually got a little chuckle out of me.

That explains why Showtime's streaming service is called HBO Bro.

Couldn't we just have a show where Paul Giamatti plays the same character he played in Shoot 'Em Up instead? I'd watch the shit outta that.

An appearance fee of a few hundred dollars, free flights and some time in a hotel room (the latter two of which are probably compensated by the show's sponsors) isn't really all that generous given that the show is a multi million dollar enterprise syndicated all over the world. It's better than nothing, of course,…

Yeah, I guess it could be read that way. The execution didn't make it clear, though. Frankly, I don't think we needed to see any more of them beyond the ending of episode 4.

The main issue for me is simply that neither of the instances were actually funny. I'm not against the darker and more mean-spirited elements of the show, but given that those scenes didn't amount to anything beyond "This guy is going to rape Alice's corpse!" and "Neo-nazis are beating minorities to death!" without…

I was pleasantly surprised by season 3 after how much I'd grown to dislike the show by the end of season 2, but the finished product is still very flawed overall. Given how clever some of the twists were (namely Alice being a neo-nazi), the ultimate reveal at the end was pretty disappointing - I was hoping they were…

Thankfully, Groening is neither British nor 69.

You can pretty much bet he'll be bringing in some former Simpsons and/or Futurama writers.

Baby's not on board.

I remember ages ago, Groening said that, if he were to develop a third show, it'd be about a band (or would have something to do with the music industry, anyway). I wonder if that's still his plan.

Keep your stupid Cranstons in your pocket!

New years resolutions are dumb, but still, I'd like to try and make more of an effort not to have so many games on the go at once. It makes it quite difficult to just focus on (and complete) one. Every now and then I make a conscious effort to complete a bunch of half-finished games (I had a period of about 10 days or…

Season 3 would've been much better had it focused entirely on the Russia crisis and avoided all the silly melodrama between the Underwoods. I thought they were setting up Petrov as the primary antagonist, then he just kind of disappeared completely in the back half.

That pretty much sums it up for me. There are a lot of negative things one can rightly say about describe House of Cards, but it's rarely ever boring.

I didn't read about it in Thing magazine, so no.

Plus, unlike the rest of the show, the lame jokes in the titles have been there since day 1.

The Ralph scene (along with the brief cameo from Nelson's dad) was rather cringe-inducing, but the rest of the episode was passable, albeit largely forgettable.