I agree with you. I'm just rewatching season 2, and the Kalinda/Alicia relationship was never as central (for me) as it seems to have been for some people. Now, relative to most network dramas I've watched, this show has a huge cast of well-developed characters with well-developed relationships that draw viewers in,…

For me, the prerecorded sketches go against the premise of the show, and the awkward mediocrity of the live sketches is kind of the point of SNL. Also, I don't think "Grow A Guy" was particularly good - it's basically C- Adult Swim absurdism. (In fairness, that's my least-favourite kind of comedy - I'm likelier to…

Explosion Boy cares not for content! (Explosion Boy's opinion on beans yet to be confirmed.)

Possibly Controversial Opinion (or possibly something that's been said in 1268 previous comments I haven't read): there are more people who can do a pretty good Mr. Burns (or whoever) voice than there are who can write a pretty good Mr. Burns (or whoever) episode, and the show's already lost all of the latter. I don't…

Do you have other men in this house? Cow men?

For every one person who is a legitimate vice-presidential candidate, there are a thousand Sarah Palins who are very, very wrong about their own prospects, but who run anyway. If the show wanted to give us Peter as one of those, it'd be a great arc. I fret that, instead, they'll give us the usual Florrick election…

If this were reality, two things:
1. A lot of people "run for President", especially in the early phases of the campaign. There are dozens of candidates right now for 2016, for example. A lot of them are doing exactly what, in theory, Peter is talking about doing: throwing their names in the ring, making a few trips to…

The only acceptable answer to this question is Tony Plow from "Leave it to Beaver".

You're clever, guy.

"For you I would move to a foreign country, if you came with me of course."

I never even noticed that lyric until the Hatesong about it. I'd have told you that the whole song was Daniel Johns yelling "Fatboy!" for four minutes.

Don't listen to him, Perky D! I still love you!

I also felt that there was something wrongheadedly self-congraulatory in King's tone when it's revealed that the time travel actually made things worse, but HarbingerOfDuh and I could both be projecting that. Maybe King *didn't* think he created this plot device. But…why use it, then? It's not like he did anything…

Yeah, tramp-stamp and baby mama jumped out at me as well - as did Jerome's patois, which eventually turns out to be a weird affectation on the character's part but at first seems to be just how King thinks young black people talk. (The kid is some sort of genius but prefers to earn spending money by doing, quote,…

"The Simpsons can’t explore certain rites of passage or coming-of-age stories because these characters will never come of age—at least not without the help of a flash forward."

Also: is this the first story you've ever told about your sex life in which you went out of your way *not* to use the word "monkey"?

Thank you - hate modern Green Day, hate this song, hate all the things this critter brought up about this song. I really don't know what's more annoying about "American Idiot"-and-thereafter Green Day—-that they think "George Bush is an idiot!" is really trenchant commentary, or that they use "Jesus" the way a…

My favourite part of your theme song is that you won't make me think. Idiotking for president.

Is this true? It doesn't feel right to me. Maybe I'm just thinking of Lionel Hutz.

Yeah, I mean, the only real debate is the degree to which it "coincides" (which is to say, they happened at the same time and had nothing to do with each other) and the degree to which Phil Hartman's death was a major contributing factor. For me, I think it was certainly *a* factor - when they couldn't use Troy…