When Finch said that he was going to be sending Shaw as backup, just as Enrico's name came up in the credits, did anyone else's mind go down the same path as mine?

If the kid was smart, he gave the girlfriend another fake ball, and is now shopping around for a buyer for the real one.

Why would an expensive wine be startling to someone not familiar with wine? It's only people who drink a lot of wine who can tell the difference.

It's a bit odd that the Machine gave them the con man's number, but not the antique traders.

I'm having trouble following that sentence. What does it being incestuous have to do with there being problems with slash fiction?

What does "3-run episode" mean?

And the head of HR. He's a cop, right?

He wasn't pretending to be a psychiatrist, he was pretending to be a "certified hypnotherapist", as if that were a thing.

I liked the Zed Zed Top reference.

It would have played a bit different if they had been together, because with them not being together, Barney's hug is purely consoling. If they had been together, it would have been more awkward, since Robin might be wondering whether he was consoling her, or upset about that meaning that he wouldn't have kids himself.

If they were going for continuity, shouldn't she have a massive hangover now?

"I am woman, hear me reappropriate."

I'm a bit annoyed that they're not on Hulu.

The Machine doesn't keep her sane, it just directs her insanity in productive directions.

Of course, if one thinks about it too much, one comes to such questions as "Did Finch write all of The Machine's code all by himself?" and "Is Finch somehow so special that no one can create their own Machine?"

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How about a cisgender cisvestite from cissylvania?

What do you think @avclub-7445cdf838e562501729c6e31b06aa7b:disqus doesn't get, and what makes you think that?

I heard on the news that the woman who played Edna Crab Apple died. Seriously? There are people who don't know how to pronounce "Krabapple"? And they have a job that consists of nothing but saying words correctly? That's even worse than hearing that Kyra Sedgewick stars in "The Closer", with "Closer" pronounced as the…

And in the same session, right?