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She was a rocket scientist and she made it sound like being a florist?

Despite it not being very funny, it was one of the funniest things the show has done this century. That's latter-day Simpsons for you.

The Simpsons: Going (Annoyed Grunt)-nhill.

Don't feel bad. It took me until I read your comment, and I still only half-get it.

Is the joke that that's all of them, or…?

I can't tell if he's the ugliest hot man I've ever seen or the hottest ugly man I've ever seen. It works, though.

I thought the other half of the thesis of the movie was that Graham is a douche.

Maybe I'm misremembering. I thought the voicemail was (at least implicitly) about Will being willing to make a serious commitment to her and have a real relationship, and that it was because Alicia didn't know he was willing to do that that she broke things off. Therefore, the content of the voicemail could have been…

Yeah, we have that kind of thing too, where everyone in the neighbourhood will chip in for upkeep. But trying to kick somebody out of their house seems a little extreme. (On the other hand, it's "Madam Secretary"; not much happens on that show that isn't a little extreme.)

I came here to ask that! I know it's not unheard of for networks to do this kind of "theme night", but it's an oddly specific theme. "Madam Secretary" is a show I hate-watch. I enjoyed the contrasts: "Madam Secretary" underscoring that its hero is a noble public servant and that her complaining neighbours (led by Taub…

I hope the intensity of what Eli is feeling is about how badly he messed up Alicia's life, not just about him missing her as a friend, because the latter would be ridiculous.

I wonder if I'm the only one who's spent the past thirty years not remembering which one is Christine Lahti and which one is Christine Baranski. Putting them both on the same show has certainly helped. (Christine Lahti is the one I never need to see in anything again.)

How much of this ground was already covered by the first Rowby episode, though? I feel like the "hey, sometimes songs sound the same" case has been made before using the same points.

O'Malley wasn't discussed much last episode, but he was mentioned as finishing ahead of Peter in the caucuses.

Oh, I agree that nitpicking is pointless. It just struck me as really weird that Zack thinks "Homer Simpson commits a B&E" is a huge break with realism and not something Homer probably does three times a week, but that everything in this episode up until then (including a bridge closing on his head) is totally…

What what what what what what what? This better be about pizza.

Reviewer Zack Handlen says he can't handle "Lost Our Lisa"'s cartoonish ending. But I'd say that Zack ought to do less thinkin' and more Handlen.

I more or less agree with most of this, but surely the part where the realism is irreparably broken is the bridge closing on Homer's head with no ill effect.

Interesting take. I feel like her move from Lockhart/Gardner to Florrick/Agos was a reasonably well-executed but imperfect bit of office politics/diplomacy (she left with Will hating her and only pulled it off because of her governor husband threatening Chumhum) but it's a pretty steep hill to climb from that to "she…