That's why I said east Asia… :)

I sympathized with Buffy mostly because it felt like the Scoobies had lots of alternatives, like talking to Buffy quietly, rather than publicly humiliating her AND KICKING HER OUT OF HER OWN HOUSE. I would rather that they all left and set up defenses at the Bronze or something.

See, I felt like they dropped the Buffy-as-counselor thing because it wasn't working narratively (Buffy is actually not good at relating to other people). However, I like the idea that the idea could have worked if they'd kept with it. Maybe if Buffy had also taken a counseling course on her days off, too, so we…

I'm not really sure what haircut Allah has, so I couldn't possibly comment.

Oh, everything in the last half of S7 (except the last few seconds) was truly dreadful. I was hoping the whole Buffy-as-dictator thing was going to teach Buffy a lesson—but no, everyone gets punished for not toeing the line and doing what she says. Girls actually die because of it, while following new-dictator…

Oh, Joffster.

I will!

Huh, I find that east Asians like American desserts as long as they're homemade, or at least not junk food-y. Because people actually like sugar, generally.

You make an unassailable point. But I find moon-cake the most grating of all, because it's so hard to find most of the year. Like a Cadbury egg.

I really like flavored tofu bars, but you have to go to an Asian grocery store to find them. And most people don't think they're snacks…

Highly lactose-intolerant population has something to do with it, too. And cheese is very expensive if you don't have a lot of cattle in your country (like in a lot of east Asia).

However bad you think Chinese desserts are in America, they do not begin to compare to the awfulness of desserts in mainland China. Taro buns are about as good as you can hope for.

I hope you saved the shirt for the 2000 election season.

When will Pulp Fiction get its post-Community recognition bump?

The Office and 30 Rock.

Too many "parodists" were getting caught by the DEA.

It's like you don't want me to get any work done today.

Am I a lion?

To me the series was always about overcoming your fate and being more than people expected/assumed, so it was oppressive that she ended up dying after coming back to life after S1. She was the person who defied the odds.

Fanfic, fantasies, hard to say. I might think Spike stayed skinny for the same reason.