For some reason, as soon as Castro showed up, I had a feeling something like that would happen, and that it would be a cheap and less-entertaining ripoff of the time Peter punched Chandler Bing's lights out. But then it did happen, and it was glorious.

I generally like Sonia very much, but yeah, these past couple of reviews have not been my favourites.

No, I'm pretty sure you're right that Walt's son had CP, but this character's CP was much more mild (similar to mine).

Yeah, him blaming the producer for the sister question was hilarious. I love Eli.

Yeah, I thought the joke was "Alicia works so hard that she doesn't even know how to work a TV". I really didn't take it as a mean-spirited dig at other networks (though I can see how Sonia got there, especially with the prominent NBC logo before the "buffering" incident).

I agree—-Sonia seemed to either feel more strongly than I did about the throwaway references to other TV shows, or else to feel so little about the content of the episode that she devoted most of her review to tangents.

As a person with a very mild case of cerebral palsy, I was amazed by how well they pulled this character off. They work around Michael J. Fox's disability by having Louis Canning be sort of obsessed with explaining it away—-with his little "sometimes I'll do this! and sometimes I'll make this face! and sometimes I'll…

Coincidentally, I just saw the episode where Fat Tony gets Armin Tamzarian'd, and I feel about it roughly the way a lot of people feel about "The Principal and the Pauper". For me, the greatest flaw of modern Simpsons is how simultaneously plot-driven and poorly plotted it is, like the writers have totally forgotten…

Well, on the one hand, this comment is terrible, because this article couldn't be less whiny or more neutral about feminism, and this is the only article I've ever read on the AVClub that even mentions feminism. But on the other hand, this comment is great because of the ironic juxtaposition of the ultra-butch dudebro…

This is pretty much exactly what happened on the show.

Ugh! I didn't notice that.

Also, that was the most sense-making part of the episode by far.

Or, if you remove the couch gag, its four-minute vicinity.

Yeah, I mean, there's a reason the disgruntled SNPP poster meme is a thing: there's always been stuff to bitch about. The first couple of seasons were…okay, but were a certain thing. Around S3, it became a better show, but a different show, which, if you liked the first couple of seasons, could easily be mistaken for…

Agreed. I wouldn't go as far as "one of my all-time favourites", but I quite like it. The Simpsons has always walked a fine line trying to satirize TV while also being a TV show itself. Frank Grimes and Armin Tamzarian aren't a fuck-you to fans; they're a fuck-you to lesser TV shows. But I understand why others feel…

9. So many choices, but I pick E. Pluribus Wiggum, where Ralph Wiggum runs for president, and the episode vacillates between sub-Leno "those clowns in Congress did it again, what a bunch of clowns" potshots at easy political targets, but then when they want to say anything moderately "controversial" (really…

Actually, he appeared in Sunday's episode.

I've never been able to get into AD because the voices annoy me (I have the same problem with BB), but whenever I catch a snippet of it while flipping channels or what have you, it's wittier in any given moment than Family Guy usually is over any given season. It strikes me as a smart show.

Yes.

In Sunday's episode, the newest recurring character is randomly revealed to be Superintendent Chalmers's daughter. I think I'd take another Armin episode over that.