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She is a screenwriter who won an Oscar for Juno. Diablo Cody is a pen name. Her real name is Brooke Busey. But Juno was a while ago and I do have to wonder under what bus station bench they found Diablo Cody. But hey, at least she participated. The other "celebrity" (and hasn't that word totally lost its value) was useless, doing even less than she did in Jurassic World. But both were better than that idiot Jenny Mellon, aka Mrs Pie Fucker.

Lace is gorgeous, but definitely a piece of work. I was yelling at the TV for Ben to tell her to go home when she confronted him after the Rose Ceremony and basically dared him to send her packing. Ben, trust me, tell her to hit the road. You're only getting the tip of the Lace iceberg right now, you don't want to wait too long and have to go hard a starboard. It didn't do the Titanic any good, and it was made of much hardier stuff than you. Still, as gorgeous as Lace is, my pick this year for most attractive is Olivia.

As a fellow Star Wars nerd (one who needs no explanation as to why you qualified the phrase "on-target" as no pun intended) I agree they should get over it. Especially since this was rather benign compared the legendary burn Trekkers received during the WIlliam Shatner episode so many years ago.

I first watched with the sound down and captions on, and I was ready to give the benefit of the doubt when I saw the captions say "Sandberg for Bowa". But upon second examination, the captions were correct, which is to say the dialogue was wrong (way wrong). I can allow that Adam Goldberg (real or fictional) would make the mistake, he himself tweeted about the error and admitted that he knows jack about sports. And to any fans of the show, that should be no surprise. It is doubly funny because, not only would the real Murray never make that mistake, nor would his portrayer, Jeff Garlin. Garlin is a staunch Cubs fan and knows damn well the details of that trade. I am surprised that got by. I think maybe Garlin was having a little fun with the less than accurate nature of the show's 80's references and decided not to press the point. He is a far more patient and forgiving man than I would be. I know if I was in Garlin's place, I would have given the real Adam, and the rest of the nerd writers, an earful over their lack of knowledge about the national pastime. But that's me.

Unless the chicken enthusiast turns out to be a Rhodes Scholar, or something of equal or greater value, I am not really seeing what the point of that "trap" was. Great, the powers that be at The Bachelor are now aware that their show is filled with imbeciles willing to do anything to appear on the show. That would make them the last ones to wise up. Yeah, they really got one over on us.

I'd join in with the bashing of the chicken enthusiast, but as of now I find her the most attractive. Aw who am I kidding? Of course I am going to make fun of her. Shows you how bland and dull Amber and Becca are, I didn't realize they were on last season until it was explicitly stated.

I missed everything up until the point where Bruce and Cat leave Silver's sorry ass in that room, so I did not get to hear Silver implicate one M. Malone in the Wayne murders. I only found out about it this morning. I wish I had shown up in time to hear it, because I too recognize the canon, and M. Malone, while a very small part in the Batman mythos, definitely piques my Batman fanboy nature. Interesting that Gotham is tying it all to the Wayne murders, but all things considered, it could very easily, and fittingly, be a huge fakeout.

The role of First Lady is what one makes of it. Indeed, it is not the 1950's anymore, Not that it stopped Eleanor Roosevelt. who redefined the role in the 30's and 40's. I dare say, if Liv was bored, then it was because she is boring. I seriously kept waiting for Liv to say the following: "Oh, Fitz, Fitz, you are blind. It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion. An abortion, Fitz. Just like our relationship is an abortion. Something that's unholy and evil. I didn't want your son, Fitz! I wouldn't bring another one of your sons into this world! It was an abortion, Fitz! It was a son Fitz! A son! And I had it killed because this must all end! I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Fitz... no way you could ever forgive me, not with this Grant family thing that's been going on for 2000 years." Thankfully, the writers resisted that urge. I agree that it is preposterous, especially since I have been led to believe that Mellie is in fact the more conservative of the Grant's. At least that is how I saw it. But I admit, I did not change the channel, I actually enjoyed Mellie's filibuster, and not just because I agree with her politically. It is about time they showed us Mellie actually flexing some of that power, ambition and all around greatness we have been told over and over again that she possesses. Usually "powerful Mellie" only appears when she is threatening to take down Denver Carrington, I mean the Grant administration. And she has been a spectacular failure at that, until now. So for once (and maybe for good) I am Team Mellie.

Villa's mother was played by Lisa Vidal. Vidal is probably best known from New York Undercover, though she has been in a lot of stuff.

I did step away for a little bit during the show. I didn't think I missed much, but I guess I did. I also missed the details on Teddy and his hockey team. So I thought the show was confirming that Teddy was Jewish. But reading here, it turns out he was only pretending so he could be on the hockey team. That clears up why Linda called the two guys working the lights during The Nice Capades schmucks. I just thought she was being bitchy.

I don't recall seeing him in any of this season's episodes. And he wasn't in this one either, as Teddy portrayed Rudy in The Nice Capades. I am trying to remember if this is in line with previous Christmas episodes. I know Tina still believes, despite being 13. This was shown in the episode where they were being stalked by a truck when they were out purchasing a tree. But I am trying to remember if Louise believed in Santa in that episode.

Now that you mention it, I do remember Liv making that remark. But was there a moment where Fitz admitted he had done so, or are we supposed to assume it happened off-screen?

Rowan is technically a mass murderer, not a serial killer. But they are not normal people. And that’s even before you take into account that Fitz is President and Liv is a powerful Washington operative. The mere facts of who they are as individuals (two completely fucked up people) precludes normalcy. Any expectation of “normal”, usually expressed as Vermont and jam, is a pipe dream at best. Indeed he killed Verna, there is no denying that. Though I am still unclear as to whether or not anyone else is aware of that fact. But as bad as Fitz is, I don’t think it is outrageous for him to hate the man who killed his son, who in Fitz mind was a completely innocent bystander to all these shenanigans. And I don’t think we can expect him to look at it from a dispassionate, clinical viewpoint where he thinks “Well Liv got her villainous father, the bastard who murdered my son, out of jail. But I smothered a dying woman, so let’s call it even. What’s for dinner?”. Frankly, it is the rare person who could be evenhanded about something like that. Now of course, we the audience, as disconnected third party observers, are free to keep a running total of the various misdeeds of the characters and rank them in order of evilness. The characters themselves no doubt do it as well. But I don’t think we can expect any type of objectivity from them on this matter. So Fitz, despite his many awful acts, is going to hate on Rowan and anybody that so much as looks in his direction. So if he holds it against Liv, I for one have no problem with that. Though it seems he is not doing that. In any case, next week it will all be forgotten. This show has never been in the same universe as reality. In fact, more and more they have little use for the reality they have created. For me, it was the soap opera ridiculousness, at levels not seen since Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter was threatening to destroy Blake and Denver Carrington on a weekly basis, which kept me interested. But as of late, the show really just seems to be an excuse to showcase two things: Shonda Rhimes personal agenda and Kerry Washington’s bad acting. I have no problem with the first, it is Shonda's show after all. But the second grows more and more tiresome. Though I will give Kerry Washington credit, she has managed to add a third facial expression to her limited repertoire. The first two, exaggerated sneer and sniveling crying face, have now been joined by a third, condescending smirk. This was on full display during Jake’s first verbal smackdown of Liv. Still, three facial expressions is not much to build a character on. And it has come to the point where I couldn’t give a fuck about Liv or what happens to her, good or bad.

He obviously had his own issues being a serial killer and all that. I think he liked it because of the literary parallels between him and the Phantom. I agree, Phantom of the Opera was what he latched on to because he identified with it because of what he felt were similarities to his own existence. A lot of famous killers can be connected to a piece of art, be it a book, a song or a movie. The most notorious examples are Charles Manson and The White Album, Mark David Chapman and Catcher in the Rye, and John Hinckley and Taxi Driver, though it was Hinckley's obsession with one of the film's stars, Jodie Foster, that drew most of the attention. I am not reflexively against covering classic songs, but that version was just awful. I get why they went with that version, the tempo was far more in line with what they were trying to portray onscreen. And we all know how hard it is to segue from an uptempo number into something serious. But if it means having to endure the butchering of a classic, it isn't worth it.

Scandal is simply not the place where the nerdy, G-rated, sex-capades of Susan Ross and David Rosen will ever come to fruition. But you would have to have a heart of stone not to feel for Susan Ross, sitting outside with her sad little wine coolers, while David Rosen was taking a trip around the world with the sexy, soulless (and panty less) Lizzie North.

I did love her telling off Olivia, and while Fitz is most certainly deserving of the verbal smackdown he received (and should get worse), I find it hard to take from Mellie. This whole "I've given it all up for you" bit of hers just doesn't fly with me. Just because Mellie chose to take the long, hard and stupid road, doesn't change the fact that she was in that marriage to further her ambitions as well. For all her boo-hooing, she is still the person who just freed the man who killed her son, all just to keep at her dream of being President alive. So Mellie can go fuck herself as far as I am concerned. No amount of Saturday visits to Jerry's grave are going to change the fact that she just shit all over the memory of her son. And while I admire David Rosen's idealism, that advice he gave Susan Ross was idiotic. The Presidency will eat up and spit out someone as unsure as Susan Ross. That office requires an ego the size of Texas to occupy it. Say what you will about Fitz, or even Mellie, but they have ego to spare. I would rather see Sally Sitwell (or whatever her name is) occupy the office again than Susan Ross.

I know I will burn in hell for this, but I was really hoping that Jeff was only running up to the ledge just to see Juliette go splat on the ground. Then maybe he would comment with something pithy like "oh, that's a shame." And then he would walk back to the bar to continue celebrating his recent run of success. At the very least, they could have had Jeff, as he goes over the ledge, shout out "I regret nothiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!"

He only resembles Jobs in the last third of the film, where he is playing a middle-aged, gray and balding Steve Jobs. For the first two-thirds, they do little to even attempt a resemblance. But Fassbender is so damn good, and really creates the character they are looking to portray, that I have to admit the lack of resemblance made absolutely no difference to me. And though I love Aaron Sorkin, I am glad that the Sorkin-isms, while present, were toned down. I don't think I heard anyone say they were "never, ever sick at sea". Then again, I had to step out for 5 minutes to use the facilities, so perhaps that overused nugget was uttered during the scenes I missed. Sorkin really works best when he is working with material not of his own creation (The Social Network, Moneyball, Charlie Wilson's War).

The way I see it, they just moved focus from one little asshole to another. Give me more of Louis, Grandma and Evan and Emory. I am guessing the writers had to Google him as well. Otherwise they might have known that Eddie would never have worn that costume on Halloween in the mid-90's, when Digital Underground was already 5 years past their sell by date. Then again, Eddie (both on the show and in real life) is not nearly as cool as he thinks, so perhaps it is based in reality that he dressed like that in 1995. And I get why the resolution to the plot with the teenagers attempting to egg the house ended with them being foiled by some proto-Mean Girls, but the truth is, those kids would have still egged the house. They would have just done it after they egged those girls.

I was 12 in 1982, and my recollection of 1982 was that if you had a beeper, you were either a doctor or a drug dealer. The average person on the street did not carry one. I really only remember those being popular in the 90's. I had one for a short time in 1996, and that was it for me as far as that trend went. Which was fine as by then it was already dying out.

Pretty sure all Cyrus has earned is a dance at the end of a rope. I don't know if they would necessarily hang him for his crimes, but we can always hope.

Not to diminish the loss of any life, but the soldiers who died in “The War of Fitz’s Boner” were prepared for what they faced. They signed up and trained with the possibility of death in mind. That is true whether the war itself was justified or not. The 17 grand jurors, to put it lightly, were not prepared for any such possibility. Nor should it have ever even been a possibility. These are people who lost their lives because they happened to register to vote, making them eligible for jury duty. Really they died because Papa Dope and Schmuck have issues. And because Mellie's ambition far exceeds her capabilities.

All but the last 5 months and 8 days of my teen years took place in the 80's, and I very much remember people using the word poser. I mostly remember it being used mostly among punks and metalheads to describe anyone they felt wasn't hardcore about the music or the lifestyle. For example, if you tried to claim being metal by expressing your love of Bon Jovi, you were instantly (and rightfully) called a poser. And poser was on the kind end of the scale. The only thing worse was to proclaim to like both metal and punk. Even posers gave you shit for that. Which looking back was so damn ridiculous. But that's how it was. But that is me, and my years as a teen in Chicago. I won't pretend to know how it was for anyone else. BTW, how many episodes is it now that have been devoted to Adam trying to get out of gym class?

The affair, in and of itself, is not what his impeachment will be over. The affair is a starting point as to whether or not improprieties (that's putting it lightly) took place in the Oval Office as a consequence of the affair. Just like what happened with Clinton. Which is surprisingly a realistic portrayal. I mean what Shonda Rhimes seemingly knows about how Washington really works could fit into a thimble with plenty of room to spare. But this they seem to be getting right. But otherwise this episode was filled with things that made me howl. There was so much that a thousand posts couldn't begin to cover it, but one I thought was very emblematic of how ridiculous this entire fictional universe is was Quinn getting all smug towards the interviewer who shifted focus away from Liv to her past as Lindsay Dwyer, the Molotov Mistress. Quinn's past is not central to the issue of an affair Liv had, but when the light does shine on Liv's activities, as it no doubt now will during Fitz impeachment, it will become pertinent. It will because, if we all remember, Quinn is only not in jail because Liv got the late Verna to wildly overstep her bounds and influence the judge to, completely apropos of nothing, issue a motion to acquit Quinn. A move that made absolutely no sense, not even in Shondaland. Sorry Quinn, but if you are going to put yourself out there, that little nugget from your past cannot be ignored. And, affair or not, when Liv is that influential, the press and the public have a right to know just what OPA is up to. Now I know Quinn was being set up and was completely innocent, but that doesn't change the fact that Liv, Fitz and their cohorts treat the institutions of this country as merely bothersome playthings. And that is before we even start with the body count. No amount of spin changes the fact that Liv is only missing the white cat to complete her super villain ensemble. And just because her nemesis is her father, a man who makes Dr. Evil sound understated and reasonable, doesn't change anything about Liv's own villainy.

He has a moral compass, so long as it doesn't involve telling the cops what happened to the body of the Mayor's murdered wife. When Liv has that in her past, and it is one of her lesser crimes, I tend to not care too much that the mean remarks of a bunch of dorks on the internet made her cry. Fuck her and her new gladiator.