The CC Jitters set still exists, though the last time I saw it was on Arrow when it was redressed (rather obviously) as the restaurant where Curtis finds out Paul is divorcing him.

Considering the star of his most acclaimed series had to Anglicise his name from Ramón Estévez in order to get mainstream acting roles, one would've hoped Sorkin had more of an awareness of this sort of thing already.

When I installed Hangouts on my Kobo and didn't like it, uninstalling it left Google Talk back in its place where I'd last left it—and have left it to this day.

High School Musical 3 would be a strong competitor for that title.

One sign that they're full of themselves is that they all but ignored genre series (often the home of awesome title sequences through the years) and trash the "saga sell" even though a well-written saga sell is an iconic aspect of a show in itself.

Getting through the opening credits of The L Word is somewhat easier if you come up with your own rapid succession of rhyming words and add a "Cha-cha-cha!" at the very end of the theme song.

I'm also bummed for the same reason—I didn't care for Hangouts on the few occasions I tried it, so it's annoying that I'll be forced to use it for those people I use Gchat with now.

I tried that, but I didn't like Hangouts at all, so I switched back to the Google Talk app, which continues to work…until June, I suppose.

You're not the only one at all—I really like Gchat's simplicity (as someone who still misses the heyday of IRC) and use it with many of my friends.

I use it virtually every day—there are a lot of people in my life for whom Gchat is my main form of keeping in touch.

As a Winnipegger, My Winnipeg felt like one big in-joke only people from Winnipeg would get—and yet people from all over (like Roger Ebert!) responded quite strongly to it.

That's always the strangest aspect of these stories to me—what's the payoff? The ROI seems extremely low for the amount of effort involved.

The Law & Order franchise got away with this in a sneaky way during the Nineties by having its psychiatrists who worked with the NYPD also appearing on New York Undercover, which aired on Fox.

I recall The Hoff owning up to the jarring switch on talk shows at the time: "When the ratings are low, the format must go!"

Charles in Charge is the example of that which always comes to mind for me.

Heartbreak High was clearly a shameless attempt to do an Australian version of Degrassi High when that show proved popular in Australia but wasn't making new episodes anymore, but I really liked it for precisely that reason—giving me an ersatz Degrassi fix when there was no alternative.

There was a frustrating lack of moral equivalency in the series at times. Faith absolutely has to go to prison, but Willow doesn't?

Inara experiences an echo of this sort of reaction in the Firefly episode "Heart of Gold." Perhaps it's the sort of emotional note that resonates for Whedon.

I can see your argument, though Kennedy is a far more egregious example of this than Anya.

I struggle with how to respond to this issue, both in real life and in addressing fictional characters like the Trio. I mean, what alternative answer do you offer to people on the losing side of that equation? "Learn to be okay with missing out?"