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Bonnie and Clyde, pulling off one last score.

Someone get Donald Sutherland on the case!

Have the Rolling Stones killed.

I cling to my baseless speculation like grim death!

They need to have an accountant backstage who tells the presenter the winner onstage, in the event that the name on the card conflicts.

All the envelopes are supposed to be sealed. And when you win, you typically get to take the envelope with you. So why was the Best Actress envelope even still on premises to be handed to Beatty? And why wasn't it clear it was the wrong envelope when he realized it was already opened?

I don't buy for one second that this was an accident. This felt like them seeding viewership for next year, on the intrigue of whether or not it'll happen again.

Only in the DCU can we get a Nightwing movie before ever meeting Robin.

Woodley is one of those actors I find immensely compelling for reasons I could never explain. But I think this helped clarify why, for me. It's relatability.

The thing is that those types of things are long-running character traits. The "Troy is recruited by air conditioner repair school for his engineering skills" arc or "Charlie writing an entire surrealist fairy tale musical" make sense because those traits have been established, even if they haven't been explained.

What made The Simpsons as great as it was in its early seasons was its deconstruction of the nuclear family and its take on small town community. The Simpsons were ridiculous, but you could kind of see real people in them. Granted, some of their best moments were pure absurdity, like Ozzie Smith falling off the Earth

Loved the premiere, although I was tired of the "Future murder victims' identity remains a mystery" trope when The Affair and Revenge did it.

Tonight was peak Elijah. What I love is that so many of his greatest moments are just throwaway lines in the middle of a broader, story-progressing scene.

This makes me happy. I liked his character quite a bit. He seems like one of the rare characters on this show who's all the way good. Sure, he didn't tell Hannah about his girlfriend, but he did seem genuinely upset that she was so hurt. And his spiel about love didn't sound like self-indulgent bullshit either like it

I think Elijah off-handedly telling Shosh about Marnie/Desi is foreshadowing. It was almost a throwaway line here that Shosh wasn't given the time to process. Wouldn't surprise me if she seeks Ray out sooner rather than later, since I kind of think they're endgame.

Totally. But I feel, at least in the case of Desi, that it was on purpose. When he admits the mints are oxycontin, this ridiculous, over-the-top, Bob's Burgers-esque dramatic sting kicks in that I just can't imagine wasn't intentional. Didn't necessarily make it funnier, but it was something different, I suppose.

I laughed a lot this week, but strangely, Elijah's off-camera "I'm so BORED" after the Shosh/Jessa fight got the biggest laugh out of me.

I liked Bart's conscience better when his name was Hugo and they kept him in the attic and fed him buckets of fish heads.

How I Met Your Mother repeatedly telling you that a romance was finished FOREVER THIS TIME only to return to it later has strangely made me more tolerant of it in other shows. Still don't necessarily agree with it though.

I kind of hope Ray just tells Marnie to fuck off at this point. I get that people make mistakes, and it's a constant learning/growing process, but of the four main characters, Marnie is far and away my least favorite. I don't expect anything from Jessa, but I feel like Marnie really ought to know better by now.