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I could not be happier to learn that I misread that!

Scarlett45: I believe there is a lot of evidence showing that that is *not* true. Pedophilia and homosexuality are not related.

Looking it up, I see that book's claims have been heavily questioned. I'll have to look for another source to back it up. For the moment, I'm dubious. Journalists do not typically want second jobs that require them to swear to secrecy.

chessiegal: The voting age dropped to 18 in time for 1972. I know, because I was one of the beneficiaries. I voted for McGovern. suomi: What's your source on the claim that Woodward is/was CIA? I've never heard this either. In Woodward's entry at Wikipedia, there's a quote from the CIA head saying he *wished* he had recruited him.

Yeah, it was a chilling moment (which I also saw live in the testimony), but practically speaking how exactly would Trump be able to resist a peaceful transition? He can handcuff himself to the White House radiators and throw a tantrum, but to retain the presidency would require external support. Realistically, where's he going to get that? In such a scenario I would expect the military, the secret services, the police, the courts, and the vast majority of the people to be arrayed against him. I was disappointed that Maddow chose to highlight the creepiness of the comment without also pointing out the logistical difficulties.

Yes, Jimmy proposed to Becca (seen in a flashback at the end of season 1), and she turned him down - but did invite him to her wedding. He and Gretchen hooked up after Vernon threw him out and she stole a wedding present. "Me and fat Lindsay are hella close," Gretchen tells him ungrammatically in the pilot, when he asks why she was there and she says she's Becca's sister's best friend. While we're wrapping up characters' stories, I really hope Killian makes a final appearance.

palmaire: Not just that, but that people will skip the broadcast and just watch the clips they're interested in on YouTube. Why spend three hours if you only want to see three minutes? Re Whoopi Goldberg: I thought she was great the year she ad libbed a mini-tribute to Gene Siskel, whom the Academy had refused to include in In Memoriam, claiming he wasn't part of the industry. Goldberg, which Goldberg explicitly disputed in mentioning him.

galaxygirl76: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM was Jennifer Connelly. Camille: The quality of a movie starts with the *writer*. Yet no one ever complains when the Best Picture and Best Screenplay awards don't go to the same movie.

I've never watched any of those shows. But I thought in the early years of THE GOOD WIFE both Julianna Margulies and Christine Baranaski played compelling female characters, and Baranski has continued in THE GOOD FIGHT, along with Cush Jumbo. Also, Candice Bergen springs to mind in BOSTON LEGAL (though I always really thought of that as a comedy). Glenn Close in at least the first season or two of DAMAGES.

eel2178: Without trying hard...for dramas, THE GOOD WIFE, THE GOOD FIGHT, MAD MEN....for comedies, MOM, THE GOOD PLACE, SUPERSTORE, YOU'RE THE WORST... Separately, can someone tell me why so many TV characters and even commentators think "affadavit" is pronounced "affadavid"?

Kariyaki: Only if you said it directly into his ear. My feeling was that this episode was an excuse to get onto the show some of the people they'd always wanted to have as guest stars.

Has Sadie Calvano, the actress who plays Violet, finished college yet? I thought that was a big part of her greatly reduced presence on the show.

The pimple crisis reminded me of the real-life tennis player Jennifer Capriati, who went through adolescent acne soon after she signed with one of the famous skin lotion manufacturers. Imagine being a 14-15yo girl and your acne being a matter for board-level discussions.

I like the original family characters, even the kids, but I think I'm done: I can't stand the extra characters that are getting more play this year. I don't think the show has much choice, since there's a limit to how much time you can spend on just the one couple, but still. Ick.

BBT, unlike HIMYM, was substantially reinvented in the course of its run. Chuck Lorre credits Steve Molaro with opening up the show in directions he wouldn't have thought of. The addition of Amy and Bernadette definitely made the show less funny to me, but without them BBT would have cratered long ago, and Amy's and Sheldon's relationship for a long time was unique on TV. HIMYM never took that approach: it just kept recycling the original premise and cast of characters. MOM, similarly, is a very different show than it was at the beginning. btw, the first instance of menopause symptoms in a sitcom that I can recall was in CYBILL, I think while Lorre was still in charge of it. Maude, on MAUDE, thought she was menopausal but in fact she was pregnant.

This felt a bit like a tour of BBT's greatest hits. The space station scenes at the beginning of S6 were awesome. And Keith Carradine was great in his return as Penny's father. We knew he wanted grandkids; he said he wanted her to marry Leonard so his grandkids wouldn't be living in a trailer home.

Remini says in her book that because she entered Scientology while she was still a child, she didn't get the full-on celebrity treatment. She became well-known long after she joined. AIUI, when you first encounter Scientology one of the first things they have you do is take a personality test. This shows them exactly which buttons to push to manipulate you. These folks are *very* expert at extracting money from people. (btw, the "Give us money and you will get it back 10fold" thing is well-known in evangelical circles as the "prosperity gospel".)

I can think of an instance. One week on her 1980s show CAROL AND COMPANY, Carol Burnett was ardently pursued by (then very young) Peter Krause, playing her son's college roommate. "I've got *shoes* older than he is," Burnett's character, a widow, observes dubiously to her best friend, played by Meagan Fay.

Gretchen also isn't wearing an engagement ring when she checks into the hotel. Even so, I'm conscious that this couple could easily destroy a car to that extent in one good overnight bash. The throwing out the minibar key so she couldn't drink the alcohol coupled with the substance abuse --> throwing up incident of a few episodes back makes me think, as I said before...

This episode seemed haphazardly put together, like someone said, we've got to make sure that we get the *other* characters in. The show feels off to me for this final season, and I think it has to be that a bunch of the original writers have found other work now that it's ending. (And then I look it up and see this is the first episode for the team of Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds). This may be the first YOU'RE THE WORST episode where I didn't laugh once.

I was going to say that condoms are an old, old idea. Historians may enjoy this somewhat well-known Irish comic poem: http://www.horntip.com/html/songs_sorted_by_name/irish_french_letter.htm

The credit card thing was less of a retcon than the same ploy in HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, but it was still jarring to me. If Gretchen really has 70 credit cards with overdue balances, the banks would be garnisheeing her salary. Yet last year she had paid six months or a year of rent in advance. It feels like this season they're throwing in a grab bag of things I've seen on other sitcoms. This show has always taken romcom tropes and twisted them to make Jimmy-and-Gretchen's style, but the wedding versions of it seem both less clever and more borrowed. Which is why I ask again: have we ever seen Gretchen's digestive system disturbed by overindulgence before? Because...on so many TV shows a puking woman is pregnant.

Oh, excellent: I thought we'd have to wait until March.

I think they picked both men for their chemistry with the women, not with each other. I just think Kimbrough could have made all the stuff Sheen did a *lot* funnier. He only did two episodes in the MB reboot.