These brief scenes with the mother are doing two things:

Actually he could see her face, but there were also the strategically cut holes. They showed the costume from behind in season one and she wore no mask.

DAMN YOU, TYRANNY OF CHOICE!

See above.

During season one, he had been wearing the same costume every year. But during season two he was dating Robin. He presumably stopped going as a hanging chad in season two, as he was probably not looking for the Slutty Pumpkin while he was dating the woman who was, up to that point, the greatest love of his life.

That USED to be why this place exists. Now, with the new comments section, who the heck knows what's going on?

I have some stories of my own, but I have to share one that happened to a resident in my building when I was an RA sophomore year: Long story short, her roommate came home drunk and POOPED ON THE FLOOR. The kicker was that the director of the res life program for that half of campus was hell bent on ensuring that…

Ronald D. Moore looks like Al Snow. I'm sure I'm not the first to point this out, but I also don't care enough to do an Alta Vista search.

Bart. I bet they kill off Bart.

Thanks, @drdarke:disqus , I appreciate the assist, but it was a joke: To me, her most iconic role is as Bobbi Bernstein, the recurring substitute anchor on Sports Night who insists that one of the leads slept with her in Spain then never called her again, even though he insists that he's never been to Spain.

It's weird to be on AV Club message boards and have BB not mean Breaking Bad and AD not mean Arrested Development. @avclub-5dedb42b34e50082065a783265ce28a8:disqus and @avclub-a17bf70c7cfc521094e5cf8bc02bc04a:disqus, you're making me do way too much mental work for procrastinating on a Friday.

In 2009, I briefly lived in Armenia, where the number-one drama on TV was called Revenger, an action show about the Armenian mob. I was sort of hoping Rashida Jones' Revengers was an American adaptation of that.

I'm sad that Glengoyne doesn't make their 12-year anymore. I used to always keep a bottle handy—it was the perfect introduction to scotch for people who aren't used to it yet, because it was so smooth and easy on the palate. It was more like barley juice than liquor. But not in a disgusting way.

@avclub-78b6e39336f2cc0745a2944f919541a4:disqus , part of me is STILL a 14- or 15-year-old, standing bolt upright alone in my living room after Calvin Trager said they'd "work on that," waiting for a season three that will never come.

I don't know who Lisa Edelstein is, but what the heck did Bobbi Bernstein do to her hair?

I stuck with most of the last few seasons but ducked out before the end of the last year. I checked in tonight to see what they were gonna do structurally, and this episode convinced me to stick around until the end. I'm not gonna go back and finish season eight, but I am gonna stick with it now.

Yeah. I gave up on this show last season, and even earlier today on these very message boards declared that I would wait to see how the reviews for the first month or so are before deciding whether I was going to look in on the final season. But in the end, I decided to watch the premiere and, dear goodness, finally…

For a long time, I was one of this show's biggest defenders—and even champions—among my friends. I watched the first four seasons through several times, and argued hard for season six seeming to be taking the show in a bold and interesting and redemptive thematic direction as it was unfolding.

? I don't get the reference…

Whether Lorne is right or not, I think we can all agree that Norm was the best WU host in recent memory.