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Oh, a mallard with a cold. Totally different joke.

Blitzer, you have brought shame upon your family, the town of Kenmore, and all of western New York. The ghost of Tim Russert should visit you and force you to spend time with the ghosts of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Ben Bradlee. And not wait for Christmas to do it.

That was so good I had to fast forward from the middle to the end because I couldn't stand the suspense and needed to see how it ended. I'll rewatch later.

Re: Lassie OMG! Me, too! I've never met anyone else who had this experience.

I would like to eliminate the phrase "on accident" from the English language. It's "by accident" and "on purpose." I heard it first on Angel and then again on something recently. Is it yet another stupid California-ism foisted on the rest of us because of TV?

We called our mud room the front hall. I sort of feel like mud rooms are one of those things that existed in the past, maybe on farms or more rural areas, and were suddenly in vogue because of HGTV and how you have to do something with all of the useless rooms in your McMansion.

Yeah. My point was that if the company wanted to avoid the threat of a lawsuit, as suggested by Cobalt Stargazer, they could claim the French-accented mustard was generic dijon.

My guide is showing this episode airing tonight rather than last night.

But it could just be dijon and not specifically Grey Poupon.

The only extracurricular material I'll give a pass to is Lost Untangled. That was hilarious and I'm still pissed they didn't get the rights to put it on the DVD set.

When prodicers started learning about their cancellations in time to produce a finale and also made the amazing discovery that fans of a show liked a wrap-up? I mean, in ye olde days of the teevee, when it exciting to see the NBC peacocks tail go rainbow colored, shows just stopped. Unless there was a positive decision by the producers to end a series, there was usually no notice until after the season's episodes had aired. Until the internet made it clear that fandom was bigger than Trek, producers seemed to act in a vacuum instead of trying to actively foster viewer engagement beyond buying show-related merchandise. ETA: The first one I really remember is Mary Tyler Moore. Newhart and M.A.S.H. came later. Did Perry Mason have a series-ending episode?

Here's my UO: I don't care that Ben Affleck asked to have references to a slave-owning ancestor removed from a show or that Henry Louis Gates agreed to it.

Mo (he's a he) was a correspondent on The Daily Show a very long time ago and is a frequent panelist on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. He also hosts a show on the Cooking Channel I can't recall the name of and I think I've seen him on CBS's Sunday morning show. I've never noticed a speech impediment or his tongue.

Maybe a trapezoid.

Didn't they do that for one of his appearances on TDS? I think someone held a globe and spun it in the right direction.

Maybe they mean the vampires who sit around moping and wanting to atone all the time...Angel, Nick Knight, etc.

It reminded me a lot of watching flashbacks in 3rd season Lost: this backstory was covered in season 1. And season 2. I don't need to keep seeing it.

WRT Mark Pellegrino, I have a differing opinion. I loathed, I mean loathed, with the heat of a thousand burining nuns (TM TWoP) him as Jacob on Lost. Him and the character. That was the first time I'd seen Pellegrino in anything. I've enjoyed him in everything else I've seen him in since.

I'd be happy if everyone who graduated from college knew how to read, write, and think critically about information. All of which is the essence of liberal arts.

"Screw you, Trebek!"? or "Ha ha, Trebek, the day is mine!" In honor of SNL Celebrity Jeopardy.

I've thought for a long time that Harold killing someone would be the end of the series, or at least the beginning of a rapidly escalating downward spiral to a cataclysmic end.

If only he'd had an Apollo bar.

His Dragnet parodies were brilliant and I'm saddened to hear he's gone.

Is it because the lyrics make no sense? That's why I hate it.

I like her. She's calm, her voice doesn't make my ears bleed, she doesn't say "uhhhhh" before choosing a topic or say the whole topic every freaking time,