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Wow - good remembering!

So is it the idea the Bakula attended the party, but didn't speak to Charles until Charles chased him down? That is suspicious! Would have made more sense running into him on the street. And yeah, the negotiation... Don't Oliver and Charles have agents? I think they've even talked about them... And unless they're hinting Charles is losing his marbles he should know '4' is not a number you put out as an offer. But greaat to see everyone back!

Yep, exactly - good to see all the teachers one more time, and not just as extras at the funeral!

Yep, you're right - thanks!

Agreed with all above - great scene, good card from Lorre. Just keeping score - was the last time we saw Brenda and Pastor Rob at the hospital when CeCe was born? Good to see the high school crew in happy times.

It was good to see all the old High School characters (except Danielle Pinnock!) back, and not for the reasons in Pt 2. But wow, Sheldon really was a jerk to Tam.

Yes, it was immediately a different feel seeing them all back together. And yes, I suppose that's it - but Sturgis and Linkletter went out as heroes!

Sad Malcom is always funny. I liked the Calvin/Gemma vs Dave/Tina arrangement re:bosses, but I guess we forgot Dave was a conflict negotiator. And the resolution was, 'She gave us everything we wanted!' Well, I guess that worked out...

Yeah, best of the season so far. Pollack is always good, and Beth's hair looked great!

Yeah, we did the friend/employee/slacker plot last year - and Marty fired that guy! I guess another perspective now. Cedrick talking snacks is always funny. Not looking forward to the pregnancy storyline.

The MatriXXX had me launghing out loud the whole time - the Matrix parodies, the married-sex problems (and yes, my wife and I look for the happy-hour drink specials when we plan date night); the boulder threesome/twosome; and the reunion (love how Buscemi's bully still managed to deck him!) But then, yeah, the ending kinda ruined it all!

Maybe it's just me but when they cut from the 90210 discussion to Georgie's date, I was struck by how much she looked like Shannen Doherty's Brenda character - to the point I thought they deliberately made her up that way! Best wishes to real Shannen, of course...

Even playing Frank's most sketchy friend, the guy had charisma. RIP

I haven't seen it mentioned yet (apologies if I missed it) but there's a wonderful tracking shot near the beginning of the final episode that I really enjoyed and I think it's worth a re-watch all on it's own. (For those not familiar - tracking shots are scenes where the camera follows the actors without (seemingly) any edits or cuts. They're visually so different from regular scenes, that seem to cut about once a second, and I always love to see them.) Anyway, it's immediately after the 'So Long, Farewell' song - about 13 minutes into the eposide. We start on Trent arriving at the practice facility. He compliments Keeley's shoes and walks past, and now we're following Keeley. She walks down the hall, past Nate and into the coaches offices. She drops off presents for Ted and Beard and walks into the locker room. At this point, the camera seems to go through the glass window separating the rooms. Now we're in the locker room, and Keeley wishes the team good luck and leaves. The camera focuses on Jamie. Jamie walks out of the locker room (different door from Keeley) and catches up with her in the hall. They talk and then hug. When they separate, Roy is standing in the distance between them. Jamie and Keeley each leave in different directions as Roy walks straight up to the camera. We follow Roy back into the locker room, where he invites Jamie for a beer and leaves. Nate then walks up and asks if he and Roy are friends now. "Uh, yeah, guess so." "Wonderful" "F'n mint, yeah." Two and a half (seemingly) seamless minutes - well done, show!

I do cut Marty some slack here. You can think you've got everything prepared right -- in theory and in practicing and in testing, and still get punched in the face the first time reality shows up. Engineering is all about anticipating problems, but Marty's not the first one that's happened to!