A while back Patton Oswalt was on Comedy Bang Bang and said their was an episode where Jack dates a student’s mom that was hilariously uncomfortable. Was this supposed to be it? Because if so it was a pretty big letdown.

It’s probably not that easy to find, but Westbrook’s Mr. Chipper is a nice American take on a Flanders red.

I don’t care at all about screen time per se. But I do worry about kids who are never asked to hang out in grown up environments without something to distract them.

No, but magic is magic so I don’t have any problems when it is the explanation for killer fear monsters.

I suspect LMD Jemma was Jemma’s fear; it was established elsewhere that the phantasms aren’t that picky about who they attack.

Whatever other pros and cons the show has, can we agree that the cold open with the homicidal husband was an incredibly stupid way to open a light family comedy?

For good or bad, it’s the same character that JJ Totah always plays, which is essentially (based on his recent Late Night appearance) JJ Totah. AFAIK he’s never been a lead before, so it remains to be seen whether he can play other notes. If they’re going to deepen his character any they better hurry though. While I…

This is more of a general comment, because I haven’t seen the movie and don’t remember much about CW’s idiolect in the book. But I’ve always thought that saying a kid “talks like an adult” is a pretty sloppy description, since there is a lot of variations in how adults talk and very few speak with the linguistic…

You have to have ID to buy NA beer?

I realize that by saying this I am emphatically missing one of the main points of this and every other coming of age story, but I wish they’d quit adding new characters and changing things.

Is this some kind of new Rick roll I haven’t heard of?

I’m pretty sure the next letter is the column is going to be:

Those are some wild colored nuns.

• Joe x Claire: The premise was too stupid for me to have any emotional reaction to it, so I found it neither funny nor creepy. That’s just not how little kids act.

I think the Target people deserve the benefit of the doubt here. Lights burn out, cashiers forget to turn them on, etc. I don’t think it’s unreasonable or particularly rude to assume the fact that people are in a line is better evidence of its openness than the light.

Yeah, but I kind of hop they’re still doing it in 10-15 years because I really want to see The Middle: The Next Generation (Next Generation).

I don’t have much of a taste for vegetables myself (wish I did) but I agree this makes sense.

Where are you people eating that are serving these huge portions that offend you so? I can think of a few meals I’ve had out that I could describe as comically large, but for the most part the volume of food restaurants I frequent offer seems reasonable to me.

I have mixed feelings about this. As a fellow diner with these people it annoys me: “Oh, neither one of us can finish a whole chicken breast on our on.” - Get over yourselves. And I understand that the restaurant and the server should have some reasonable expectation of the average revenue per table per hour, and that…

I eat too much and I’m fat, so I’m not saying my life choices are the best. But I can’t fault restaurants for being generous with the portions; I’d rather have too much food than too little. I have a friend who is a foodie and whenever he posts pictures from high end places of a dish that appears to be 10% food and…