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I can't express how happy I was when I saw the lamp from "DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp" in the secret museum garage. The Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck, and Tale Spin references were all wonderful, but that was a perfect subtle nod.

He didn't have much of a relationship with Summer until the episodes where she took a part-time job working for the devil and the one where the two of them went to the Zardoz-parody planet. Point being, this might be the first step in their interactions becoming more solid like those episodes were for Rick and Summer.

Maybe stupid isn't the optimal word, but it IS derivative. By that I mean it's been done before (A LOT) in TV, movies, comics, and other sci-fi media. Hell, "My Own Grampa" is a TV Trope. This show is popular because it does new and surprising things, or at the very least, it warps familiar tropes in interesting ways,

Beth is interesting to me as she's the character who's had to deal with Rick's soul-crushing influence the longest of anyone: since her childhood. While her mother could divorce Rick (that's what she did, right?), Beth can't simply get away. I suppose legally she could disown him, but her untreated abandonment issues

I'm not sure if Izzy was the family cat. I figured it was just a neighbor's pet that wandered in through the open garage door. But your guess is just as likely.

Do you even watch this show, or were you drawn in by the headline and dove straight for the comments section?

The Clark Family, singlehandedly demonstrating why you should keep your doors locked.

I just looked up the trailer for Lady in a Cage thinking "there's no way Olivia de Havilland said that line so weirdly." I WAS SO WRONG! If anything, Catherine Zeta-Jones fails to capture the awkwardness of it:
"I… Am… Trapped… In… A… Small… Private… Elevator." It's like she doesn't understand the words she's saying.

No only that, Bette Davis starred in "Jezebel" in 1938 (one year before "Gone With the Wind" came out) and won her second oscar for that performance. It's said she was offered the role of Jezebel as compensation for not being picked as Scarlett, so she was always a bit bitter towards Leigh for taking her role.

If Katherine Hepburn did appear in this season (which she won't), I wonder who would play her?

There were too many amazing moments to count tonight, but my favorite was in Anne Bancroft’s dressing room. When she sees why Joan is there, and grants Joan her wish to accept. That's such a great moment, when we cut through the artifice that pride and self-image and social contracts dictate and just say what's on our

And what would be the point of that? There's such a thing as less is more.

With how hard it's been to get the cops out, there's no way a fire truck is reaching the place. That house burned to the ground and he's gonna be right pissed now.

Don't mean to harp on you for personal taste, but you'd actually rank Hotel as one of the best? What did you like about it?

You know what was the worst part of that? They killed Queenie (you know, the actually interesting character with an emotional arc) meaning Cordelia is left with only Zoe to help run the Coven. What a nightmare!

Yeah it's pretty uncomfortable that the only Asian characters get the Grudge treatment, but it's a reference to a movie and AHS is 60% horror movie references.
If we had some Jewish characters on the show, I'm sure they'd be harassed by a Golem.

Oh this has been a delight! I have renewed faith and respect for Ryan Murphy after this season. And let's hear it for Adina Porter, she may not have the name recognition of Lange, Paulson, Bates, or Bassett, but in this season she was the clear star. I hope she sticks around for 7 (or at the very least gets an Emmy

Every season has at least one element that's never given a decent examination; last season it was the Addiction Demon. It's just something we have to deal with. I think it's trying to mirror how in life you never get all the answers… or the writers run out of time/interest.
At least it's consistent.

He does tend to oversell things, but it was a good role.

Sorry, but you tuned in for the wrong show then.