My understanding is that 50% of Americans can't even find Mexico on a map, so I'm assuming the percentage of viewers who have read it and recall it clearly enough to instantly remember the prominence of the noose is pretty darn low. I'd be interested in what that number would be, anyway.

So, what percentage of the audience is going to get the "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" reference? Ten percent? Five percent?

The Simpsons should look at Futurama's old-timey cartoon tribute to see how to do it right.

Oh yeah. They're gonna milk the Peyton-Papa John's connection for all it's worth.

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It's amazing how quickly Masters of Sex has completely overtaken Homeland as Showtime's true quality drama this fall. I'm as pumped for MOS as I used to be for Homeland during its first season.

Maybe if Herman Cain was around back then, he could have suggested calling it Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan.

"Star quarterbacks Peyton Manny and Tom Brady face off on the field for the 14th time."

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HSUSA is a lot better at this stage of its run than Morel Oral was in its first season, and MO went on to become a great show. HSUSA will only get better and better.

Yes, indeed it was.

It doesn't even have to be as good as "I gotta keep watching this", it only has to be as good as "I'll leave the TV on for a half-hour after New Girl", but it's not even living up to that standard.

Cop comedies have worked in the past (Barney Miller, Bakersfield PD, The Job), so the premise was fine, most of the cast I've liked in other things, and the producers have a good track record. So I would have been surprised if it wasn't at least watchable.

I was wondering as I was watching if it was supposed to be a spoof of those kind of scenes, but apparently not.

It's disastrous for RH, hard to believe that Fox is actually going to debut Enlisted behind it on Fridays at 9:30. Talk about a death slot.

2.5 Men's ratings are marginal and it's gotta be really expensive at this point. I'm guessing no.

B99 was never really doing that badly, all those scare headlines were very misleading.

I liked her on The Office too - in small doses, same as Creed, Kevin, Toby and the rest. Never really occurred to me that she'd go from that relatively small part straight to a starring role.

She must test well with desirable demographic groups. Otherwise, I'm not really sure.

If Fox was really most interested in helping Glee's ratings, they would leave it where it is, since Idol is coming back soon and would surely boost Glee's numbers. But that's not their priority, since Glee is a mature show with little growth potential, they'd rather use the post-Idol spot for a new show.