That sounds just like him.

My primary reaction is to be glad that someone's finally confirmed that the Kings intended for it to end after seven seasons. I'd never heard anything authoritative about that—-just the "episode title word count" theory.

Al Jean spanked "The Simpsons" on two non-consecutive occasions!

Everyone's always focusing on the "good" part and the "wife" part of "The Good Wife". She's also "the".

"Football in the Groin" had a football in the groin.

"Also why was she that upset? She had had a relationship with Will, of a kind, but gave it up due to work and maybe concern he wouldn't be great with her kids." Yes, and the voicemail Eli deleted was the one about how he was willing to prioritize her over work and try to build a serious relationship. She never would…

Alicia in this episode reminds me of the time on "South Park" where the other kids tell Cartman he has to be nice, so he shows up wearing a nice sweater, and someone says, "That's not being nice. That's wearing a nice sweater," and he can't tell the difference.

Agreed. The handful of people who show up to vote in a caucus are usually pretty serious about the political process—-it's over-the-top to think that a whole room full of caucus-goers would follow a singing lunatic to a candidate they weren't supporting, and would do so just because he was singing and a lunatic. I was…

Yeah, no, it's almost exclusively in the book that this theme is really developed. In the movie, it makes very little sense, I agree with you.

I don't remember to what degree this is in the movie, but in the book, a lot of the aggression she faces is because people don't perceive her as distraught enough - she presents as very cold and matter-of-fact, which the townspeople read as being just this side of "I'm glad my kid did the whole mass murder thing, it…

That's definitely, for me, the weakest part of the book, which carries over to the movie. Shriver is so committed to the TWIST ENDING about the rest of the family having been killed that she throws in subtle signifiers which aren't necessarily consistent with that.

I love the book, the first half of the movie, and Tilda Swinton's performance. What's great about all of these things is the ambiguity. You genuinely can't tell if Eva is a woman so damaged by her horrible son that she reads as a creepy, emotionally disengaged sociopath, or if Kevin was a perfectly normal, healthy kid…

I loved JCS in all its forms circa my early teens.

When I was eight or something, I wrote a short story based on this song. I think it was about a guy whose eyes were made of cotton and who could magically appear and disappear at will, and all of the other characters (Kindly Old Doctor, Cotton-Eyed Joe's Love Interest) would stand around portentously (picture a…

Potato man!

Also without the easy. It's difficult listening without the craftsmanship.

Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.

Hey, this review didn't suck. If you ask me, Simpsons Classic needs more thinkin' and Les Chappell.

He bit me with my own teeth!

Everybody, I have a shameful confession. I can't remember episode titles worth a damn, and always get confused between this one and "Mountain of Madness". It doesn't help matters that this episode comes right after the one where one of the Flanders kids is "king of the mountain", and comes from the same season as the…