"Look what I can do to Mary Worth's sense of smug self-satisfaction." Silly Putty, anyone?

Exactly. George and Tessa aren't roommates; they're father and daughter. It should not be an anomaly that they be in the same room together for an actual conversation at some point. From recent episodes, a new viewer would think Dalia was more George's daughter than Tessa.

I think Chatswin has been steadily integrating themselves into George and Tessa. Sort of like slugs on Futurama.

I get your point, and I can agree that they had to move away from the "terrified father" premise somewhat. But at this point, a new viewer would hardly even guess that Tessa and George were related, let alone father and daughter. Especially since she calls hims "George'" and he always seems to be up under Dallas all…

"Fred Armisen makes a surprising guest appearance. . ."

I remember when this show used to be about a dad and his daughter.

This episode made me like Ellie. She is the one person in the group that I haven't been able to "connect with" since the show's first episode.

Jacob's character makes me hope the writers pull out the fake follower card. People who have professed to be followers of Carroll that actually aren't. I don't think Jacob is one of those people but I'm having fun thinking about it.

I believe Annie's character did also. When she was "impressing" Hardy with her knowledge but chastizing the use of the word "cult", she talked about how a charismatic, handsome guy could manipulate vulnerable people. Or something like that.

I wish Piper Perabo showed up that infrequently. She's sucking all the funny out of something that only had a limited amount of funny to begin with.

I think the problem I have with buying into to the "Mindy Mystic" is that the brand of cuteness she seems to be selling requires a lower level of self-awareness than I think Mindy Kaling is capable of. Whereas Zooey Deschanel (of whom I am no fan) doesn't seem to be overtly trying for cuteness on New Girl (at least,…

YOLO.

For me, I didn't take it as Lily or the writers finding it ignoble so much as not even close to what she wants to do with her life. Honestly, I wouldn't want my kids to have a teacher who "settled" on teaching and seems to be as dissatisfied with it as Lily does.

Well, before she even met with the Captain, Marshall told her she could quit her job the next day. So I'm guessing she will no longer be a schoolteacher.

As he made very clear. Very, very clear. "Not even a drop in the bucket!".

I like the "junkie' analogy, and I think it the show would seem too contrived if we never heard Barney say anything resembling his "old" self again. I believe he's in love with Robin, but it doesn't mean that he had a complete personality transplant.

I can see that she might have been afraid to lie to him NOW, since she might reasonably think one of his followers could have let him know it if she did not, in fact, do as he said. After all, Hank got to her after Joe was already in jail (and after she thought he was there to stay since she could/would not help any…

Yeah, but she was starting to panic in a pretty uncontrollable way (understandably so). Still, if she couldn't keep it together enough to keep quiet when it was clear he was trying not to be detected by her captors, it wouldn't have exactly been the heroic thing to untie her so she could literally go run right smack…

Well, I am expecting one of two things at some point, either in this season or the next: 1) Joe Carroll will escape again and takes shelter with his followers who will engage in more mayhem to mask whether Joe might be (but with Hardy always in Joe's sights) OR 2) Joe has way more followers than one would suspect,…

But, but… Joe said no. Sorry.