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I assumed it was part of the dress, because it wouldn't make much sense for them to be wearing identical necklaces. But now I see that they were apparently wearing identical earrings, too, I guess they just styled both women exactly the same to add to the humor.

On Breaking Bad, in the flashback to the 1980's in the episode Hermanos, we saw that Hector was holding his drink in his right hand, but he couldn't lift it to his lips without using his left hand to move his right arm. When we saw him in this episode, his walk was slow and awkward, his head jerked to the side at times, and he was extremely reliant on his left arm. It looks like his problems with movement got worse. I think they were also trying to hide the actors' wrinkles. Oddly, though, while Chuck looked younger, Jimmy looked older in that scene than he did anywhere else in the episode.

There have been some references to how Derrick can't afford to piss off Britney. Does he rely on Britney for his livelihood? Does he represent her in some way, or have her seal of approval? Wouldn't that be the opposite of ironic? I would expect the queens who identify as women to be the most likely to try to resemble women.

If they do an episode where Sherlock confronts Joan about her neckwear addiction, I'll die of happiness. Or even better, if he asks her if she has an alibi for the night of the big tie heist. I have to say, I've never bought that Joan would be a huge clothes horse, especially when it comes to her more outlandish outfits. She's a no-nonsense person with a very subdued personality, who generally seems to loathe flashiness.

Chuck founded HHM with Howard's father. It makes sense to me that Howard would be very deferential to him. Also, Howard has a huge financial motivation for keeping Chuck happy. If Howard refuses to collect everyone's cell phones when Chuck is coming in, then Chuck might want to collect his share of the firm and call it quits, which Howard can't afford. Which of Chuck's actions, related to his electricity issue, do you think he's doing with the goal of manipulating others? He clearly doesn't care much about how much his issues are affecting other people. But that doesn't mean he's using his condition as a hook to manipulate them. We've seen that he goes out of his way to avoid electromagnetic waves when no one else is around, so when he asks people to turn over their cell phones, I don't think manipulation is what's driving him.

We don't have any reason to believe that Chuck is actually physically allergic to electricity. Last season he couldn't tell that the doctor turned on the electric bed, and he was able to walk outside without any problem when his mind was distracted. But I can't even fathom that Chuck knows it's all in his head, and is just pretending he has it to manipulate people. He barely ever leaves his house, which has no electricity, which means he endures Albuquerque summers without air conditioning. We saw him struggling to get the neighbor's newspaper, even though he had no reason to think anyone was watching him. He wears the space blanket-lined-jacket to meetings. And he has to know that he's seen as a joke by a lot of his colleagues, which to someone like Chuck is probably worse than death. I can't buy that he's still going through all of that just to manipulate people. He's a manipulator in general, and I doubt he gives a damn about how much his "condition" is inconveniencing others. But that doesn't mean he isn't genuinely struggling.

We've seen Chuck use the space blanket in his house before. While he seems to believe that he's safer from the world's electric currents inside his house than outside, he also appears to be afraid of them even when he's inside. There's a transformer near his house, which seems to be a constant source of anxiety for him. She could have told them that Jimmy misled her, and gave her the impression that he'd already received permission to run the ad. When Jimmy informed Chuck that he'd misled her, Chuck remarked that it would have helped her to bring that up when Hamlin was chewing her out. Jimmy explained that she probably didn't want to get him in further trouble.

Same here! I just wish I knew who has it now.

Last season, Mike told Playuh that he's known bad cops and good criminals. Lawson seems like a perfect example of a good criminal. It's funny - before BCS, when I saw that actor play an annoying, pathetic character on Orphan Black, I thought of him as goofy-looking, if not flat-out unattractive. I now feel quite differently!

I think the all-three-sitting-in-the-front-seat thing was intentional awkwardness - just one more way that the trip was uncomfortable and weird. I remember when I'd be stuck in between my parents in the front of their Jeep. That was the worst.

I loathed those "I'm six!" sketches, but I'd much rather watch one of those than the horrific final sketch where Jonah Hill played a caterer. He couldn't even pronounce his lines clearly, despite screaming them all at the top of his lungs! Something was just...off with him in a lot of the sketches. According to many people who have had them, what appeared on Cruz's lip (which he subsequently swallowed) was a tonsil stone. I don't know if that makes it any more or less disgusting. I assure you that it was absolutely revolting to watch.

Oh, I don't think they fell flat. It just felt like a very paint-by-the-numbers way to write dialogue.

Frontiers Media did a (gay oriented) oral history of The Golden Girls, featuring the recollections of its writers. It's well worth checking out. It made me love the actresses even more than I already did. One highlight is that Bea Arthur read a comment in TV Guide from a viewer who said she didn't like Dorothy as much anymore - and decided to look up the woman's number, and give her what had to be the scariest phone call in human history.

Yep. My unpopular opinion is that I'm not crazy about Dorothy's "No, she's _____ because ______" zingers. (As in, "No, Blanche, she's upset because they keep changing the taste of Coke," or, "No, Rose, she's depressed because Marblehead Manor is only on once a week.") Dorothy's sarcasm was usually great, but those jokes just felt so cheap (not to mention shoehorned in).

And I suspect we're going to be seeing the character again, as a politician.

I think even a lot of people who know who Stacy Dash is didn't get the joke, because a lot of them only know her from Clueless, and don't know her politics. And a lot of people who know her and know her politics still didn't get it, because it was just handled so weirdly - with Dash seemingly not understanding that it was a joke, and there being no real punchline. It might have worked better if Rock had chosen to name-drop Clarence Thomas as the Academy's new liaison to the black community. Re: how much of an effect the Oscars have on how we remember films. I think most of us fully expect that Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be a lot better known 20 years from now than Spotlight is. But Spotlight will also be a lot better known than it would be if it had lost Best Picture. If you're hoping for a film to be remembered years later, and it didn't get huge numbers at the box office, a Best Picture Oscar is one of the best things that could happen to iti.

I didn't have the impression last season that Mike's daughter-in-law blamed him for her husband's death. There may have been a little bit of "If he didn't idolize you so much, he never would have chosen to be a cop, and he wouldn't have gotten killed." But I think she understood that her husband died because of his own moral stance - one that Mike encouraged him not to take. And while she was probably a bit uncomfortable with the knowledge that Mike killed those cops, I think she was also grateful that he did it.

Mike's daughter-in-law should absolutely be getting benefits through her late husband. And didn't they establish that she has a job? You're not cold-hearted. I'm taking the makers if the show at their word that her concerns were genuine...but there was something about the way she handled it that just seemed "off." Especially with her being adamant about not wanting Mike to stay there overnight. If you genuinely believe that someone is firing bullets at your house, wouldn't you want the toughest man in the world there to protect you?

Abe Vigoda could easily have been included in the In Memoriam segment. They included Harold Ramis in the 2014 telecast's segment, even though he died on February 24th, and the Oscars aired on March 2nd. As for Chris Rock, I was annoyed at first, when he addressed the diversity controversy by basically saying it didn't matter. It may not be a direct matter of life and death, but lack of representation in popular entertainment is a big deal - and the only reason the Academy is taking efforts to address it is because people started making a big deal about it. But then he skewered the other side of the controversy, too - like when he said that Hollywood is "sorority racist," which was a great line. My biggest complaint about him was that he made it sound like the diversity issue is only about the number of roles for black actors. Spacey's sexual orientation is Hollywood's worst kept secret, but he isn't openly gay. And Leto very much appears to be straight. There's never been an openly gay male actor who's won an Oscar (unless you count John Gielgud - but he wasn't publicly out, so I don't see why some people count him.) Sam Smith somehow mangled that into thinking that no openly gay man had ever won in any category before.

That's certainly not how my state's bar association sees it, when it comes to lawyers knowingly making false statements to the police. I doubt New Mexico's is any different.

I'm assuming Colleen and Matt will be back together fairly soon. Her rationale for leaving him was pretty dumb if you ask me. "I have a history of dating guys like you, and it hasn't worked out" isn't a good reason to leave someone when things are going well. I've always dated a certain type of guy. I had a bunch of unsuccesful relationships with them, until I met one who's perfect for me, and we've been together for 12 years. It would have been ridiculous for me to leave him a year into the relationship because my previous attempts to date guys like him didn't work out. Her only reasons for thinking he's in love with love and not with her are because he's divorced, and he's an artist. I get that she doesn't want to turn into her mother, but dumping him was an extreme overreaction.

I'll admit it - I'm not sure it would have occurred to me to back the car up to the barrel, either. I was absolutely amazed that the plan worked out for them. Especially after they mentioned that they each had to put in $500. On virtually any other sitcom, it would have ended disastrously - partially because the networks are reluctant to show characters being rewarded for illegal behavior. But this is a show that recognizes that justice doesn't always prevail, and life is complicated.

The original question posed by Lucindabelle was about whether Jimmy would be allowed to lie to the police. The answer is no, regardless of whether he would be likely to get away with it. But did OJ tell his lawyers that he was guilty? I'd guess they all suspected it strongly. But suspecting it isn't the same as knowing it, as far as ethics are concerned. There are a number of criminal attorneys who make a point of telling their clients, "I don't want to know if you did it or not," just so that they aren't put in a position to violate those ethical rules. Even though you're unlikely to get caught when you allow a client to lie on the stand, or you claim that your guilty client was innocent, it's still not worth the risk.

Thank you, Modern Family writers, for acknowledging what was already obvious - that you think of gay men as being on the mental level of 8-year-old girls.

I wasn't referring to whether Jimmy could get away with it. The original question was whether Jimmy obstructed justice simply by lying about the squat cobbling. And I was saying that yes, he did. But when it comes to plausible deniability, if it was proven that the video was made after the discussion with the police, Jimmy could say he had no idea.