Ron is an awesome CHARACTER.  He could have easily been one-note, a caricature.  But it's the little things he does, like bringing crackers or lobbing throwaway racist lines.  He really seems like some guy you'd know.  

This ep needs to be bumped down a half-grade for whatever you give it, because it rips-off Skytanic too blatantly and too often.  For me, A- down to B+.

The Prestige deserves WAY more love than it gets.

She absolutely butchers about 95% of her lines.  But it's not that she's terrible — I think it's just a simple case of a kid with no TV charisma, which is most kids.  For every Dakota Fanning there are thousands of blah kids.

Introducing Brian THIS late into the final season is like Lindelof introducing Nikki and Paolo as last minute passengers on the submarine in Season 6 of Lost.

Introducing Brian THIS late into the final season is like Lindelof introducing Nikki and Paolo as last minute passengers on the submarine in Season 6 of Lost.

Actually, you can distinguish Ann Perkins from Episode whatever from Ann Perkins from Episode whatever on Parks & Rec.  She's one of the most inconsistently written characters on any show right now.

Ann is the weakest character, and Rashida is the most poorly used actor on the show (she's clearly got chops).  I've read in few places where writers begrudgingly, but subtly, imply that they're at fault for not knowing what to do with the character.

One of my faves in this ep was Leslie's reaction to the fartsicle sound bite of a kid crying about the fartsicle melting..  "How did you already have that so fast?"

Exactly!

Am I going crazy, or didn't Ann explicitly mention that any significant others would be excluded from the sperm donor recruitment?

Does anyone else want to see Abed teach a class on the Insanity of Character Inconsistency that is Ann Perkins? His diagram proving Angela to be the boss of Who's the Boss was a magnificent chalkboard scene like it was from A Beautiful Mind.

I actually went through much of the 2000+ comments, and couldn't find this opinion/observation:

Modern Family hasn't really been that good or funny since Season 1, in my opinion.  It feels like a bunch of recycled and/or leftover mutli-camera jokes that Levitan didn't get to use in the Just Shoot Me days.  A laugh track would fit right in after the jokes.  "TEACHER:  And you want to wrap your baby like a…

Modern Family hasn't really been that good or funny since Season 1, in my opinion.  It feels like a bunch of recycled and/or leftover mutli-camera jokes that Levitan didn't get to use in the Just Shoot Me days.  A laugh track would fit right in after the jokes.  "TEACHER:  And you want to wrap your baby like a…

Am I missing something…. or did they omit The Usual Suspects?

Am I missing something…. or did they omit The Usual Suspects?