Yeah, pretty standard. I try to teach my kid to eat well and have a fruit salad for dessert. Then I hit the ice cream after she goes to bed.

Isn’t that the situation in every household? Chores, homework, the iron rule over the TV and meals by the parents. Other than the family in House of Yes, or on the island in Lord of the Flies, that’s a kid’s life.

I like to think Al Gore was right all along and Tunnbaq is actually ManBearPig

I’m thinking many would kill to look like them at their ages.

Any chance of you upping that I.Q. to double digits and maybe don’t come to a website that immediately recaps shows you haven’t seen yet?

Judges were unable to score the performance as the monkey pouch made it unclear whether the man was attempting the short or long program.

I found this to be the most satisfyingly complete episode of the revival, if not exactly the “best.” Like Zach, I’d give that title to the Darin Morgan episodes, but those episodes require the larger context of the series to work the way they do. The fact that we know Mulder as somebody who wouldn’t actually whine…

Loved it! This season has just been really working for me after the horrendous finale. Every episode should get an A based on the fact that got a C or whatever.

Thanks for your brave comment. I, for one, couldn’t get on with the rest of my day unless I knew that Marc Colten was no longer watching X-Files.

The X-Files was always fill of kooky conspiracy theory stuff— it was the shows trademark. The difference is the fact that back in the 90s that stuff was the provenance of supermarket tabloids and tin foil hat screeds. It was fun for the rest of us. Today it’s mainstream (a point the Smoking Man makes repeatedly).…

I found it tolerable because My Struggle II was such a complete shitshow. This episode wasn’t good, but it was way better than that one. And as a bonus it pretty much retconned it.

They had me years ago, but they kept me at “Cleavage to Beaver.”

Best and brightest?

Well, given the behavior of the US Religious Right, can you blame Seth Macfarlane for imaging a “better future” With No Religion, Too...?

It’s never been about Trump/Garrison. It’s always been about the citizens of South Park being a microcosm of America. We see Heidi and the Whites as stand-ins for Trump supporters, with the Whites being the more explicit version. But when we see Heidi realize that the fault of how she became an ugly person came from…

I liked this season a lot more than last season.

More often than not, though, Parker and Stone have fumbled when it comes to Garrison as Trump

What does that actually mean? Are you talking about the Hollywood sex scandals? Something about Trump?

There was a Sammy subplot? Sorry, I must have been distracted by... something.

Personally, I’m kind of happy to see a lighter take on the whole Trek style of program rather than yet another re-hash of the essentially humorless “Roddenberry’s solemn vision of what the future can be” that’s been offered up for the past 50 years.