You're just jealous because you didn't build this city.

What would she have to apologize for, much less at a press conference?

I didn't feel like the show was calling it "reverse racism" via Cary as its mouthpiece—-I felt like Cary was calling it "reverse racism" and that the show was not on his side.

I found the depiction of Cary completely plausible in this episode—-certainly moreso than his over-the-top racial questions the first time he met Monica. This is a guy who's been socialized to believe that his success is a result of merit and not privilege—-I found it completely in character that when a person of…

Don't listen to him, Alasdair! I have read at least three worse things than this review.

Yes, this. 1990 Ned Flanders isn't reflective of Christianity in 1990 America; 2015 Ned Flanders isn't reflective of Christianity in 2015 America. It's just that Golden Age Simpsons had complex characters and Zombie Simpsons has awful caricatures.

"Thou shalt not horn in on thy husband's…racket."

This has been a weird thing about the show's culture from day one. The lawyers are all far more into switching firms and pushing each other out of their firms than to actually practicing law.

"And he left them and went out of the city, into Bethany, and he lodged there?"
"Yeah. Think about it."

I'm a person, but we seem to have similar hobbies.

"He’s a frightened child, quick to cower and squirm his way out of difficult situations. … This characterization is particularly impressive when compared to Cranston’s career-defining turn as Walter White on Breaking Bad, a lower-middle-class father who is Hal’s polar opposite."

I forget what game show it was - "The Weakest Link"? "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"? Some game show sensation from the early '00s, anyway - where the guy lost the big prize because he didn't know the last name of Malcolm's family, and I had seen every episode and was enraged, because *they didn't have a damn last…

I think you imagined the whole thing, including "Matt Roush" and "TV Guide".

Oh, I love S8. It didn't feel "off" in a bad way, exactly. Just in an "okay, every episode ends with them battling giant apes or Santa robots now. That's…an interesting turn" way.

I love Hypocritically Jealous Peter (the Will/Peter interactions were one of my favourite elements of the show) and had never really thought about how perfect it would be if he and Jason ended up crossing paths. It was everything I'd hoped for and more.

It's a joke! You get jokes!

$20 can buy many peanuts.

That wasn't my experience (the show started feeling off to me in the way you're describing around S8 and spent most of S8 and S9 in "'tis a fine barn, but 'tis no pool, English" territory for me before becoming straight-up terrible around S10) but you're not insane. I'll give you a hand stamp and everything.

I thought that was just about Martin being an old man who hadn't been out in the world for a few years and thought everything should cost what it had in the '50s. It wasn't about coffee, it was about inflation. "Give me five bees for a quarter," Martin would say.

Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?