I insist upon it.

Sonia is right that Stan episodes were terrible, but I always love how they used that lame '70s-'80s sitcom trope of "people say something that seems to summon the token idiot, and then lo, the token idiot shows up and says his catchphrase!" Maybe the fact that his lame catchphrase was introducing himself to his…

Either way, I'm certain it was supposed to signify *something*. Don't get me wrong—-I'm not defending that moment. I think it was the show's absolute low point, hamfisted and dumb. Which makes me wonder: why would they throw in something *that* awful, *that* poorly done, and *that* bound to piss off segments of the…

Yeah, the joke about how gay marriage is the same as marrying your son was pretty stupid. (So was the rest of the episode.)

Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax.

You're doing great, Perky D. Don't let them get you down.

…that doesn't answer my question. Do you think that was just a random non sequitir, included for no reason? What purpose do you think it served in the plot? I agree with you that it's a huge stretch, but I also think it was a weird thing to include if it didn't have some sort of purpose.

As a non-"Lost" fan, my least favourite part is the tone permeating the episode that the guy playing The Blitz is a superstar, like this is "All in the Family" and he's Sammy Davis Jr. I've never heard of him or seen him in anything else; I understand that he was on "Lost", but, so what?

2. Then what do you think that "Ted randomly crying at the mention of mothers missing daughters' weddings" scene was about?

I resisted the show for a long time - all of my least-favourite people loved it, and they pitched it as essentially a mystery/procedural that was literally about trying to figure out how the guy met your mother. I didn't know until, oh, a year ago, that it was even supposed to be a comedy. (It's no coincidence that I…

I think it's terrible storytelling that they dropped the "mother is dead" hint several episodes ago and haven't followed up at all. I can't care about anything else that happens on this show until I know if the mother is dead.

Hey, I thought I was the only one who didn't love Blitzgiving!

Yeah, not just hard, but deliberately weird and/or a phrase that isn't a phrase.

Can't he be both?

Debatable.

A current Simpsons episode would have Chief Wiggum stumble all over that "name" to emphasize how dumb he is. But it's the confidence he brings to where to find Uosdwis R Dewoh that completely sells the bit.

I always assume that most of what Barney says is…colourful embellishment.

You're right. All kids are different. But, yeah, I'd have been 11 or so when I started jerking off, would've gone through the "safe context" thing you describe until I was maybe 13, and then moved on to wanting to have actual sex. (Maybe one day I will manage to have some.)

At 11, sure. At 17?

If you write things at your real job, please let me know where I can find these things, because I would pay money to do that.