I assumed he had paid by credit card over the phone at some point.  I mean, that’s a big risk to not require prepayment.

I’m aboard the “the monologue was too much” boat. I noticed it was one take only a few seconds in - something about the bobbing, dipping steadicam style movements felt distracting - and then I was distracted by how much I was right. Then she ate food during it, which was like a ventriloquist showing off by drinking…

But if he goes looking for “the second one” he’ll watch Episode II and that’s just going to leave him more confused about who that Michael jerk was.

Also:  Apple sauce.  None of that cinnamon sugar nonsense.  I think I’ve also had it with salmon cooked into it but I could be remembering wrong.

Oh my god take me with you. I won’t even make you go to Raging Waters, or follow you across the country because we ran into each other in the comment section once after not seeing each other since camp. Or encourage you to go to the zoo to handle your problems. Or to graduate and stop being a student because you’re…

I actually appreciate her pained need for validation and how it drives her to do less than admirable things. It seems consistent with her character, plus I think she really enjoys pleasure and is sexually adventurous and is *thisclose* to being an ethically non-monogamous character, and I support that, and having not…

It was the last day of school, and he probably didn’t realize it until a day or few after, and was heartbroken... also I don’t know how universal this is, but as a student I never really considered calling the school when school was out. Like, on the phone. But if he had tried, the custodial staff would have probably…

I think Rebecca’s explanation that it is often made poorly explains your position.  I’ve had it a bunch of times at Canter’s here in LA and it can be really good.

This version scares and depresses and enrages me and is therefore probably true.

FWIW “I’m So Good At Yoga” is Rebecca’s impression of Valencia. Also, it makes a lot of sense, I think, that Valencia was heartbroken from long ago, for reasons revealed in the next episode, and marching through her Josh story with a certain cruelty as a result, when we first met her.  Retcon or no, I buy it.

You had me at “I think it’s pretty uncommon to see bisexual men on TV”

But... you have to take the cap off.  Otherwise it’s just a sealed bottle of water and it’s not going anywhere.  So that was ... either intentional and funny, or unintentional and distracting...

From the distant future I say:  Yeah.  I feel certain that in 30 minutes I could storyboard 10 hilarious satires of terrible sitcom openings that would be really entertaining to watch - and then I’d try to find a way to combine them into one really hilarious one that keeps jumping genres and it would be epic.

I come here from the future to ask:  can you explain the greys and why all my posts are stuck in them?  What is that about and how does it ever stop?

I come here from the year 2019 to say: Yeah. I think that’s basically what most people experience as employment. I’m so happy for those few of us who don’t feel like we are doing a job we can stand, and getting paid enough to get by, and that’s about as good as it’s likely to get.

Totes. Greg’s Piano Man song being an exception.

I literally wanted to die. Can they literally not tell the difference between how eras talk? Does it literally not matter to them at all, a show that’s doing such a nice job of visual recreation? (I just hope they someday stop using old yellowed crumbly papers that look 60 years old to represent 0-20 year old papers…

Came here to say, hooray for the closing credits tribute to Xanado / ELO, in the spirit of 1980s rollerskating :) :)

One of the best lines in Bob’s history.  

I hope it gets better. I wasn’t a big fan of Eternal Sunshine, and this does remind me a little of why. Bittersweet ennui fueled “jokes” are ok if the depth is real. But I just can’t get into feeling what they so obviously want me to feel. Way too much tell-don’t-show. Characters without a lot of actual depth. People…