Yeah Charlie was the funniest he's been all season here with his soul arithmetic. Extraneous, sure, but it didn't cut the power of Bow's situation for me and brought a humorous balance to the episode.

Yeah it all felt real to me. "the entire thing just feels rushed" was the whole point! Leaving us one commercial break with "whomp whomp, Pops ate all the cupcakes" to go straight into a serious medical problem upon return was really effective at hitting us with the suddenness and fear of this stuff.

Perhaps not instilling "true fear" in the audience was intentional, given the kind of family sitcom the show is. I thought the drama was effective enough in the short span without needing to "let us marinate" in it. This is one worry that maybe doesn't need more power. Or maybe I'm just in an upbeat mood right now…

speaking of rectify…

I sure hope you didn't take the "born without a soul" thing any more seriously than it sounds. (It sounds ridiculous.)

It's a little simplistic, and I think her view of the situation is more nuanced than what the diary says (as is ours), but I definitely agree she sees legitimate accusations and criticisms in there that she doesn't have any other way to express to her parents.

Hey, she spycrafted first! :P

That one I had no trouble with. It's easy to not know something when your job depends on you not asking certain questions.

I didn't think she'd laugh in his face but know these two there could've been a good chance she wouldn't be down for it. Kind of lame of him to wait til they were already at the wedding "chapel" to actually reveal he was proposing - like, no pressure, Elizabeth!

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They definitely didn't want to tell Paige that since she was conceived by parents who were not in love, she actually was born with no soul.

There was a big thing when she turned up at a panel at a convention and was like "sooo…I did this" and pulled her wig off. Personally I call it a crime against humanity :P

I thiiiink the logic could be that some secretary up front knew a student was coming to meet about "the housing issue" so when Zoey showed up she showed her right in, whereas under normal circumstances her request would've been clarified and she would've been directed to the housing office or whatever.

I don't understand this reference but I do know I felt vaguely offended by Black-ish taking "Fight the Power" for such an underwhelming episode.

Agreed. In particular on Parnell and Walsh, who I kept thinking "well it's kind of vaguely funny watching these two goof off but why do we keep coming back to these scenes?" It's also hard to take the campus issues seriously if they're all going to be played as an incompetent administration farce like this.

I missed the end of the Pops line, so glad you all are here to catch that for me :) I didn't mind Charlie either.

I figured this is what the housing shenanigans are all about. It'll be easy to say she had to commute after all.

Deon Cole's professorship reminded me of Creed Bratton's stint as Dunder Mifflin's Scranton Manager, right down to the acronyms: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

No, see, it's a metaphorical cannon because Black-ish is firing a broadside into the white-dominated portrayal of the college experience…

This was a much-debated aspect of the show in the Chris Brown episode as well.