I coulda sworn I was a nerd…

With this episode (coming after a string of strong ones), I feel BBT has broken through to top tier, HBO type territory. Which is utterly bizarre for a CBS three camera sitcom.

Remind me about the toast?

Is this a mini-thread for the humour-challenged? You three are way overthinking this. Bea and Monk are hilarious and absurd, and that's it. That's the point. No need to take it so seriously.

Heh, another future viewer here. "The Weekend" is so far the only ep I have unreservedly liked (loved); as I wait for the next Blu-ray to come in the mail, I hope there are a lot more as good as that one.

Good point, thecarson. IMDB and Hitflix boards work that way, and I really wish that model was widely adopted.

Good point, thecarson. IMDB and Hitflix boards work that way, and I really wish that model was widely adopted.

I anti-recommend it. For a few years there, it was my favorite show on TV. It might be salvageable if you watch only the first three or four seasons (although, as you say, ideally it would be edited together in a perfect way to leave out the bogus elements). But for me, at this point, I cannot stand to watch a…

I was livid about a season to season and a half before the finale. The finale was not quite as bad as I had expected by that point. I am curious though: why weren't you still livid about it, just because you marathoned it? Didn't you waste the same amount of time on it, either way?

This. I was planning on posting something similar if I didn't find someone else making this point. Several per day is a bit much. But once per week is too slow.

This. I was planning on posting something similar if I didn't find someone else making this point. Several per day is a bit much. But once per week is too slow.

I really liked this episode (I watch on Netflix, so now I only have one more left before I have to wait awhile, alas).  I have now come to the conclusion that I really like this show more as a drama than anything.  Who'd a thunk it?

I actually thought it was one of the few times he ever looked cool, so shows what I know.  But I was also distracted by the fact that his daughters didn't have their seat belts on (ack!).

No wonder they don't like to do press—journalists undoubtedly have trouble suppressing their eyerolling.  All this pompous talk about how the Matrix trilogy was the deepest thing ever, and that if a critic doesn't like anything they've made (read: the Matrix sequels), it couldn't possibly be their fault:
"As soon as…

No wonder they don't like to do press—journalists undoubtedly have trouble suppressing their eyerolling.  All this pompous talk about how the Matrix trilogy was the deepest thing ever, and that if a critic doesn't like anything they've made (read: the Matrix sequels), it couldn't possibly be their fault:
"As soon as…