Hey, it's the female man!

Okay, I'll look those up. It will be the first time I've ever read anything by SIIIIIIIIMS on purpose.

I've never read an AVClub review for a show that the reviewer didn't love before. Are they routinely this great? I find that this place (the reviews, not the commenters, obviously) usually errs on the side of the painstakingly sincere. "This had so much promise because (200 words!) But it did not live up to its…

Watch watch watch! It will change your life! Unless your life is already wall-to-wall comedy gold.

I don't know how anyone can not want to watch a show as hilarious as this, honestly.

HUGE COINCIDENCE, NARRATIVE CONVENIENCE, SITCOM CHICANERY? On "Hostages"? You lie!

Fan-fictional? It's…pretty much a note-perfect description of what happened on the show, which is why "Hostages" is my favourite new show.

I feel like you (above) are ascribing this to Hannigan as an acting choice. I read it more as something *Lily's* choosing to do - "My 'son of a bitch' catchphrase is pretty lame, I'd better zazz it up!" It's not funny in a vacuum. The fact that Lily thinks it's funny is what's funny. You have a point about the…

I'm surprised by how much people here hate the delivery, because for me, it's funny that her "accent" gets thicker every time she says it. In the early seasons, she just said "son of a bitch", like a person. The decision to morph from that into Speedy Gonzalez has been gradual and, apparently for me and me alone,…

Simmy's problem is that he has no grounding in the history of the pop culture he's reviewing. It's just that he's the worst. Also, he has no grounding in the history of the pop culture he's reviewing.

Now go out there and give the best performance of your life. The best performance of your life? The best performance of your life.

Yes.

To this day, if I'm hanging out in a bar, trying to remember the name of a man, I will yell, "Bar, what's the name of the man?" I am happy with my life choices.

My dream in life is to meet Bob Mosbacher, Jr., and ask him if his late father thought Bart was a dumb name.

Surely, if Season 6 is the season of kings, then this episode is a very good episode as well.

johnnyb, Sims doesn't know what Sims is talking about either.

You were really onto something, but then you lost me when you hit the "back and watch The Critic" part.

I've been calling them that for about fifteen years. Like, the Tomacco episode comes on my TV, and I go, "OFF!"

You're right: Guiding Light *is* better than the past ten years of Simpsons.

I did.