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That's why I roll my eyes whenever people talk about ala carte cable. Sure, you never watch 99 percent of the channels you get now, but if you think it's going to be any cheaper to just get the dozen or so you want to watch, you're hopelessly naive.

You have to bone up to remember Simpsons quotes? Pfft…amateur. You couldn't quote on the quotingest day of your life if you had an electrified quoting machine.

Yup. You can see how great Lovitz is in his reading of, "The review 'Play Enjoyed by All" speaks for itself." Just the emphasis on that one tiny word says a lot.

I always thought New Krusty was a Denis Leary riff when I was younger, before I realized Leary's standup career was pretty much copying Bill Hicks's persona wholesale.

Here's the big twist: you find out the whole thing takes place in Washington, DC. He's a creature of the Beltway!

Just wait until the London Jaguars suit up for the 2018 season. Then a year or two later the people of London will realize they're watching the Jaguars, attendance will plummet and the owners will threaten to move the team to Edinburgh if they don't get a new stadium.

Still better off than Dogpile. Last I saw him he was strung out on meth offering to blow Bing for a few bucks.

In the right hands a Missy series would be the live-action Scottish Rick and Morty that I didn't know I wanted until right now.

Different rule. Now when a team plays an away game, the opposing network can't have a different game on in that team's home market. I'm in the NY market and the Jets have a road game on FOX, so CBS can't air a game on its NY station at the same time.

I think by this point the ratio is about 60-40 in favor of the bad episodes, depending on your cutoff date for the good years. I think they do their blocks in chronological order, so you're better off tuning in earlier in the night than later.

Yeah, definitely. Bart, Nelson, Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney go to some kind of "bully summit" in another town, and some rival takes Bart's slingshot from his back pocket and uses it to shoot the leader. The thing ends when they run into Homer and he punches the rival kid in the face.

On a related note, the Simpsons episode with the Warriors parody was on FXX last night. What a weird segment. Aside from the reappearance of Nelson's toadies from Bart the General, it was just a lazy, jokeless rehash of the movie.

Time for "No game due to NFL rules," your weekly opportunity to vent about the NFL's asinine TV contracts.

And yet Hillman College hasn't even addressed the issue. Cowards.

I don't eat Menudo because all that dancing has made Ricky Martin's meat tough and stringy.

I'm gonna stick with:

Is there seriously a scene where he plays multiple games of chess at the same time? I thought The Simpsons put that cliche to bed 20 years ago.

If anything that would be a plus for Beth. If there's any couple that does not need more children it's those two.

Just wait until the Chargers move to town. Then you'll get to see every one of their games, and a blackout on FOX at the same time because of the asinine home market rule.

I thought remembered it working out that way when I was younger. But that might have just been because I had access to both New York and Hartford stations, so I could at least plug into different markets and get a wider spread. Now I can't get CT stations even if I wanted to, because Direct TV says I'm in the New York