Ugh, Ross is the worst.

If they were using real money instead of sitcom money, Ted and Marshall would be living in Queens with like 6 more roommates.

That's definitely not the only reference, it's just the only time they acknowledge it's weird that they're still using tapes. Two of Robin's Robin Sparkles clips are on tape (watched in more than one apartment), Barney's porn collection (which is a little dated in and of itself) is apparently on videocassette, they…

Lily got weirdly Mary Sue-ish as the show went on. IIRC she is based on one of the creator's wives, which explains a lot.

It's bizarrely dated in a bunch of ways. VCRs figure into more than one story that is ostensibly taking place in the late 2000s.

Fair, The Captain is pretty great. They totally could have worked him in as Lily's boss (the art collecting thing) and scrapped Zoey.

It seemed that way to me - they set up how tragic she is a couple of times, everyone rallies to have Thanksgiving with her and Jorge Garcia, and they spend an entire episode on the fact that she's getting a divorce and she and Ted like-like each other. I suppose it would have worked if she became a good friend of…

I completely understand why they felt like they needed to do it, I just reject the idea that it was necessary.

Seems like apples and oranges to me: Futurama's plot wasn't fundamentally oriented around career chips, for one thing ("How I Became a Space Delivery Boy"?), and IIRC they did occasionally call back to earlier plot arcs, usually hanging a lampshade on it.

Three bucks, two bags, one meeeeeeeee.

Oh, that didn't even bother me as much as them setting up, yet again, that she just might be super duper important… you get what we're saying? Hint hint…?

Probably 1 1/2 teachers once you include the employer share of income taxes and whatever meager benefits they get.

I'm not even sure you can keep season 6-7, unless you cut out all of the utterly pointless and not especially funny Zoe plot line.

Unless CBS had them under a 9-year contract, they are just as complicit. Plenty of shows end on their own timeline regardless of offers from the network to keep going.

Oh, that's a good find.

They'll support whomever they have to, as long as it means they can keep carpet bombing the Middle East.

Don't you think it's a bit of a self-reinforcing cycle, though? Whenever the media addresses this kind of disparity they say the public isn't interested in those stories to the same extent they are interested in stories about Paris. But people aren't paying attention because not that much is written. And the snake…

It's sad how happy I am that these numbers are actually adjusted for inflation.

Don't you mean 7-1?

She really prefers Ms. Elliott.