I like the way they think.

"'You have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair.'

I dunno about all that.

I remember thinking how ballsy that twist ("OH MY GOD I DON'T WANT HER!") felt at the time. I doubt other network sitcoms would dare allow their lovable lead character to behave so selfishly.

Brenda?

Romantic Outlaws sounds fascinating, thanks for the rec!

His recent appearance on WTF was kinda endearing, I thought.

Shut the fuck up!

Nice Amy/Dan moment there, too. He calls her merely "tense' when everyone else uses the harsher "shrill," and Amy refers to Dan as "…fine."

"My good friend Aziz Ansari is here! Aziz's parents are from India and he's from South Carolina! Hey, Aziz! What's it like to have a unique perspective on what it means to be American, you bag of shit?!"

"I am on a career rocket ship to Mars right now, Dan! Except I'm gonna leave Matt Damon there because the guy made potatoes in his own shit like a fucking animal."

Poor Catherine.

I agree and think she's ultimately sympathetic, but every now and again she'll have a reaction shot or line delivery to remind us that she really is Selina's daughter.

"Right now you are as toxic as a urinal cake in Chernobyl. And I'm offering you a job."

Poor Catherine.

A lot of the first season is practically unwatchable. It didn't hit stride until they ditched the goddamn monkey.

Pretty much every character - with the possible exception of Rachel - grew more and more cartoonish as the show went on, and to diminishing returns. I'm thinking of the earlier episode when Joey and Rachel agree to exchange and read their copies of The Shining and Little Women. Good stuff that wouldn't be conceivable…

I just got out of a screening and thought it was pretty great. The ads don't do it justice (WooHOO! Let's see the older lady rock hard!). It combines the shaggy humanism of Rachel Getting Married with the lacerating character work of Young Adult, and the happy moments feel earned rather than tacked on.

Agreed. Vaughn generally oozes that wonderful mixture of cockiness and charm, and we don't get to see much of that in this first episode. It's obviously way too early in the game to say something like, "Gee, maybe he was miscast," but I'm hoping that the aforementioned charisma will be allowed to present itself in…

I was initially afraid that Hugh Laurie wasn't given enough to do as Tom James, but this episode quickly shut me up.