This would be less stupid than the actual plot of the episode.

And then we roll her up in a carpet and throw her off a bridge!

Should everyone who thinks that just shut up and let you have the internet to yourself, or what?

For me, it's easily The Simpsons—-both because The Simpsons had further to fall from, and because Family Guy is still a fairly good version of what Family Guy is now. If you want rote "shock" humour and manatees, Family Guy still brings that. I honestly don't know what The Simpsons is even supposed to be at this point.

Sounds like you're great at your job. You should be very proud.

I hate considering how far this TV shoe fell. I'm *really* going to hate the "NYPD Shoe" sketch.

I don't like the episode myself, but I just said elsewhere that that Lisa scene was basically my childhood, so, from experience: no, Lisa doesn't "transform into a hyperactive brat" for no reason. Marge being so stressed about the country club jerks is out of character. Marge behaving in a way that is out of character…

This is my least-favourite classic-era episode because of personal baggage - Marge's anxieties just strike too close to home. (My childhood was basically one long Lisa-jumping-on-the-bed-yammering-about-ponies scene.) So I've probably only seen it, in its entirety, two or three times. But it's still a very effective…

It's also the apex of Smithers, the sycophant. Mr. Burns is not wrong about Homer's name being Nixon; Mr. Burns cannot be wrong. Homer just spells and pronounces "Nixon" differently from how Richard does.

I'm always harping on how this show is just mediocre now, but actually, sometimes, it's really terrible. Tonight's was a relatively strong episode…with a handful of moments that sort of made me wish I'd never been born.

Yes! a., "Family Guy" did it. b., it is the epitome of a "Family Guy" joke. c., it was horribly set up. d., there's no joke there, just a random reference.

Remember the episode about *Bart getting married* and where they just treat it like a ten-year-old getting married is, you know, something that happens? Adding insult to injury, that was probably the funniest episode of the past fifteen years, making the plot even more annoying.

I'm with you, Sonia. I don't care for Colin Sweeney at all, for pretty much exactly the reasons you list. He's beneath this show: simplistic, one-note, easy. There's nowhere at all to go with him. I love this show and everything about it, but for me, Colin Sweeney is the weakest it gets, or at least the least strong.…

This sort of thing is 15% of why I love Mike D'Angelo. He's this brash, in-your-face contrarian, but then sometimes he drops in a word my grandma would say.

Thank you (and the others here) for informing me that there's stuff out there to read about Hal Ashby. He was one of the most compelling characters in Mark Harris's "Pictures at a Revolution", but I had always assumed he was, in the grand scheme of things, too minor a Hollywood figure to have been the subject of any…

That lunch-eating scene changed the way I thought about lunch forever.

Back in my drinking days, anytime my friends and I couldn't figure something out, I was known to shout to the bar, "Bar, what's the name of the man?" I regret nothing.

The greatest regret of my life is that Bob Mosbacher died before I got to meet him and ask him if HE thinks BART is a dumb name.

Wait, Disco Stu was voiced by Phil Hartman? I'm so saddened to think that they would retire Lionel and Troy but not the significantly less funny Disco Stu.

After what he did to Mrs. Krabappel, I'm with you.