It’s amazing how effective that little mini-prologue about Dr. M was about suggesting what in retrospect should be an obvious question: Wouldn’t there be people falling all over themselves to jump in an intrinsic field subtractor for the prospect of godlike powers? How unique was Osterman, physicist and watchmaker, in…

Sorry to see you go. Best of luck for whatever’s next.

Did I miss something that pointed to Will being gay rather than bisexual?

I thought it was a pretty solid episode too, but in spite of the meanness and child murder, not because of them.

Not as such. But in the episode we meet Alex’s ex, a chef who comes over to help with Thanksgiving dinner and who has the habit of hugging people from behind and manipulating their arms to guide them as they chop vegetables or whatever. He does it to Luke and though it’s not explicitly sexual, Luke seems weirdly into…

Calling it now: This was actually a backdoor pilot for a spinoff about a newly bisexual Luke exploring the LA kink scene while his primary partner/puppet master struggles to open an Italian restaurant called Pinocchio’s.

Right? I mean I get that are practical reasons why the underage actors might not be able to appear in every episode, but the episode for a holiday that is almost by definition “the whole family gathers” is strange one to leave Lily out of.

Hard to believe I used to not like Aidy. She was great here, and “Joan” may be my favorite musical sketch since “Wishing Boot”.

Are we supposed to believe that Luke designed the hardware and wrote the software for the app himself? I suppose they were trying to handwave it with the references to Luke having helped with Phil’s inventions for so many years, but it still makes no damn sense in light of the established character.

Yes, potentially having shitty weed is the absolute worst thing you can say about the Trump administration. Such a quality burn.

I mostly agree with Salty’s saltiness here, except that I don’t think that wrapping a used tissue in a clean paper napkin (or five) is such a terrible solution, though using a pocket until you can find an appropriate receptacle is better.

This seems like a good place to confess something: When I calculate 20% for my tip I don’t always round up; sometimes I round to the nearest dollar.

I guess I can work up some measure of outrage for the lying, but why does it matter? If the only way a customer can tell a dish is not farm-to-table is if somebody from the kitchen spills the beans, then maybe the property of being farm-to-table isn’t that relevant.

Heidi Gardner is fine, but I’m not sure her update characters involve “good acting” so much as “a lot of acting”. I’m always much more aware of all the little tics and business she’s using to create the character than I am with, say, Kate or Keenan (whose characters are often just as broad).

I read the D from the smiley and haha together as the word diarrhea, which is probably not entirely inappropriate.

Three more seasons? What are they going to do when the kids age out of their roles?

The scene with Luke slowly dispensing an enormous bowl of froyo while on the phone with his sisters made me laugh out loud. Whatever its faults, MF still gets some directors that know how to stage a good gag.

It’s a well that Last Week Tonight goes to a lot, but I find that I enjoy “montage of celebrities tangentially connected to the story making angry jokes” an unreasonable amount. There’s something about the minimalism of the format and the randomness of the line up that makes it feel more intimate than other times I…

I disagree. In this circumstance it makes sense to let it go because it is the back of house guys’ turf. But if the LW was in the kitchen full time he’d have a right to make his feelings known. Now, if he were the only vote against the music out of everybody on the kitchen staff he shouldn’t necessarily get to trump…

Oh, Dave Foley, what have they done to you?