So…am I the only one who thought there was a kind of oddly high number of sex-offender jokes in this episode?

I too really enjoyed Moynihan's performance in "The Bureau" sketch. I think he's an underrated part of SNL, and it has shades of the same enjoyable beleaguered performance he gave in the "Bro Rape" video (with Donald Glover).

You're not — just making (yet another) Simpsons reference: https://youtu.be/qy76xmMfi8…

No, just ignorant. It definitely feels like a Scully episode to me, even though Jean & Reiss (guys who ran seasons 3 & 4) ran the episode. It has all the trademarks: funny if mean humor, topical references that quickly become dated, outlandish plot, and weird, at best, characterization.

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After basic training, you'll only have to work one weekend a month. And most of that time, you're drunk off your ass.

You know, "Simpson Tide" presaged the plot to the 2009 Star Trek reboot so subtly, I didn't even notice.

He's a good, prolific dude. Super dude, even.

Everyone forgets that Jean & Reiss's most shining moment is probably Cape Feare, which is about as balls-to-the-walls, absurd, and unrealistic as the show got in the classic years. "Simpson Tide", in that vein, is par for the course, but it does, as so many S9 episodes do, reveal the bigger problems looming — it's…

When The Simpsons Movie came out, and they converted a few real-life 7-11s into Kwik-E-Marts, they featured a big Frozen Jasper sticker on the freezer doors.

Oddly enough, they more or less recycled the idea in a recent Treehouse segment involving several alternate Homers.

In conclusion, "Lisa the Simpson" is an episode of contrasts.

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I feel like I'm getting dumber by the minute.

Michel Gondry Presents: A Nightmare on Elm Street

The NFL is trapped is a Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-like conundrum, where it continues to flip coins, with befuddling results, and no way to pull itself out of the existential despair it's stumbled into.

It should be airbrushed on the side of a lowrider.

Just thinking of that line reading makes me laugh.

They all showed up in the 200 and 201st episodes of the show. Along with everyone's favorite forgotten side character, Mr. Hat.

It was brief, but the scene with Saul and the terrorist leader after he was kidnapped last season worked fairly well.

Peggy Hill never bothered me, though some of that may have to do with the fact that they deconstructed that quality in her more than once.

Can we talk about how great Teddy is, even in tiny doses. For a guy who clearly lives such a boring life, there's just so much going on in his world that we only get a small glimpse of every time he's on screen. I love it.