The Kettlemans are basically the Whites played as comedy trope: man convinced the world owns him, complicit wife, and the kids just dragged along for the ride.

I liked this episode less because it was objectively amazing and more because it was definitely the most distinctive and unlike Breaking Bad we've seen yet. This is the show both maintaining its streak and finally giving us a little of what we were expecting from the start.

Man, you know you have a well-written series when an episode's featuring the main character's love interest is the most surefire sign it will be great.

"Oh, you have a couch? Ooh la la, Chateau Maheswaran!"

I'm really excited for the next Connie episode:

In lieu of an AV Club review, it looks like Eric Thurm wrote something up about SU for Wired that goes into this episode a fair bit:

Personally, I found their night in the van more endearing. It's more charmingly imperfect in the way this show likes. But that was just as carefully-chosen and a good deal more intimate.

Oops. Well, I've never seen it and don't plan to.

Eh, the revelation of what they used the Shooting Star for is interesting, especially when you realize that it's the only easy way off-planet.

Well, you never know about Greg's side of the family.

Yeah, I loved how this episode used the Groundhog Day premise to show us all sorts of different situations the show would ordinarily not have the latitude to show us. Connie and Steven having egg-and-waffle sandwiches while snowed in in Greg's van! A car crash! The Gems trying to blow up the Galaxy Warp!

Connie is my favorite character on this show. She's such a dead-on portrait of a shy nerd. Every time I watch an episode with her in it I get a desire to unearth old Scholastic catalogs from when I was a kid.

I'm with you. That album felt like awkwardly-earnest eulogies written by someone with nothing interesting to say about the departed. If you want to hear good songs about that sort of working-class upbringing, go listen to John Prine.

Dennis Brown - Love Me Always
Leo Kottke - Crow River Waltz
Taake - Nattestid V
Duke Ellington - Moon Over Cuba
Metá Metá - Obá Iná
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
Pavement - Blue Hawaiian
Gianluigi Trovesi - Herbop

Randy Weston, Lester Bowie, *and* John McLaughlin? Nice.

The show has Mabel in it. I'm pretty sure romance will always be a focal point.

The gimmick with the people turning to wood and the statues coming to life really should have gotten more play in the episode. It was definitely the funniest gag or concept.

I actually think that Millie was handled pretty well. It's not like she becomes school dictator or anything. She runs a sane campaign with composure and seemingly good intentions for the vast majority of the episode. If anyone was exaggerated it was Louise going completely nuts, but we do know that Millie drives her…

I think we have a surprise dark-horse winner.

Turn up in a Tiger Millionaire costume?