St. Claire

Best commercial ever. Santa at our house is lactose intolerant, but Mrs. Claus (and let's be honest, I do 99.999% of the Christmas shopping/wrapping/stocking stuffing) would be quite happy with a cheese tray and a glass of pinot noir.

Ew, not loving Hairy Rob Lowe (I didn't even turn on the sound; the visual alone is alarming). I still really enjoy Creepy Rob Lowe, Less Attractive Rob Lowe, and Awkward Rob Lowe, though.

I totally bought the April/Mama Kepner storyline. While the writers often seem to forget characterization from previous seasons, they seemed on the ball with remembering April's strained relationship with her family, all of whom just seem so darned well meaning just love her to pieces (gag). That is, unless I'm remembering incorrectly. I think the only thing more frustrating than being outwardly judged/put down by people who care about you (e.g., siblings, parents, in laws) is being subtly/passive-aggressively judged or put down. Having mom ship the generations-old crib for use for baby Kepner-Avery was overstepping (Jackson shouldn't have helped Mama K conspire to that effect). That actually hit a sore spot with me, because I had a serious issue with my MIL insisting that she was going to use a crib that had either been in the attic or that she'd found at a yard sale to keep at her house for my baby, despite me saying that it wasn't safe. It was old enough that the slats didn't meet current standards for spacing, but since *she'd* never known of anyone whose baby had had an accident with the crib, I was obviously being ungrateful. Thank God my husband backed me up when I told him that I'd find the CPSC reports that backed me up. Jackson and April talked to each other like mature adults who respect and love each other. I am so thrilled to see that in my Grey's characters.

Asher gets all of the fantastically awful things to say, things that would just be wrong coming from any other character on televisions. "I'm talking about my dingus" springs to mind.

I thought Tom was Mellie's "blink if the answer is yes" contact when she was trying to figure out what was going on with Fitz and she knew his SS agents weren't allowed to reveal. I stand corrected.

Oh, honey, don't ever use the knitting needles for bodily harm; taking a chance on residue ending up on your nice merino or bamboo (thus ruining a lovely project) just isn't worth it. I sort of recited my stitch pattern while the phone sex scene was going on, since "knit two, purl two" is hella soothing compared to the dreck that was on the screen. THIS! So much this. All of Tom's mess about protecting HIS President but meh, it's okay to take out his son. I mean, that can't possibly hurt 'my president', right? Ugh.T I don't know what's more appalling, the fact that Tom is lecturing Olivia in light of what he did to Fitz (and, more importantly to me, what Tom did to Mellie- she trusted him) or how right Tom was that Liv leaving him was more upsetting to Fitz than the death of his child. While I'm glad to have Old Mellie back (hated by Fitz or no), I will miss Chicken Fried Mellie. I love the Mellie character, even when I loathe what the character is doing.

I was trying like mad to figure out how I recognized the girl who played Emily- she reminds me of the "I didn't leave him cookies; I left him CHEESE!" girl from the Christmas commercial but that was in 2007, so the timeline doesn't fit. Then I realized that she was the little girl who freaked me out by speaking in Dennis Haysbert's voice in an Allstate ad a few years back. She's actually very good, I just don't feel comfortable with the voice coming out of her cute, pigtailed face.

Those poor chips; even potatoes don't deserve to be objectified that way. Oh. Wait. They are objects. Never mind.

I have started hitting mute as soon as I see it start. My issue is that "it sucks donkey balls" doesn't convey quite how horribly, irritatingly awful I find the commercial. Donkey balls would be a vast improvement over my current opinion.

If Jerry were still alive and got caught in a sex tape scandal, I honestly believe that the criticism would be that he was dumb enough to get caught on video, not that he'd engaged in a threeway. Scummy Boy's parents want to talk about how the First Daughter is a big slut? How about the fact that their son is also engaged in a sex act with two other people? There are three children in this video, the only one being criticized for it is the female. I hope this incident is what snaps Mellie out of her bereavement funk and jolts her into kicking ass and taking names. Sweatpants and Uggs Mellie made for a compelling character (briefly), but I am ready for her to move into the stage of grief that allows her to be back among the real world. She can keep day drinking and eating chips if she wants, though.

She was on Revenge as Niko Takeda.

I can't accept any explanation other than long con. There is no way in creation that David could recognize Charlotte, who came to court one time, but not realize that Emily is really Amanda. And if he knows that Emily is Amanda, there is no way that he doesn't put together some idea of why she's trying to ruin Victoria. And there is also no possible way that David would come back and not have some sort of contact with Nolan unless he had some ulterior plan. If he really is delusional enough to be in love with Victoria and wanting to start his happy-ever-after life with her and Charlotte, I may throw something at my television set. That would not be a pretty sight.

Even though the airing of an ED ad during a sexually violent show is a bit off-putting, it's better to me than having the ads in heavy rotation during sporting events- explaining baseball to little kids can be a fun bonding experience, explaining the commercials is less so. I am a college educated, fairly articulate woman but I do not have the capacity to adequately articulate how much I cannot stand the Sprint iPhone commercials with all the ladies screaming at such a high frequency that all of the glass breaks. I neither use Sprint for my mobile service nor want a new iPhone (my personal phone is a one-year-old Samsung and I'm quite pleased with it), and this commercial makes it so much less likely for that to change. It's making me dislike Judy Greer, and that's just not acceptable.

I never got the vibe that he was creeping on the little girl; I thought he was fixated on the chips from the jump, especially the way she was chomping so loudly to draw attention. It is really rude to stare at someone else's snack food, though.

The only thing I liked about the First Daughter sex tape story was that it shined a big ole light on the sexism and hypocrisy that runs so rampant in TV land and real life. What Karen did was hugely irresponsible (hooray for Olivia's reference to the doc doing a proper exam and the safe sex talk!) but Mellie was spot on in saying that the boys in the threesome wouldn't have been under the same type of scrutiny. Also, the fact that Mellie articulated the conflict of "My baby girl is doing WHAT?!" with an actual acknowledgement of how being sexually active for empowering/enjoyable reasons should be as viable an option for a girl as for a boy. Scummy boy's parents were totally on board with calling the First Daughter a little whore, but didn't seem to have an issue with the two boys with whom she shared airtime being involved in the same dirty sex act. (I looked up Eiffel Tower-ing on Urban Dictionary. In all honesty, it wasn't as offensive as I'd expected it to be after hearing Liv describe the phone video as "the dirtiest sex tape [she's] ever seen.")

Now that White Collar is over, this would be awesome.

I haven't seen much on ABC yet hyping it, but I follow Tim O on Twitter and have seen his many posts about the filming. It looks fantastic, IMO, but I am not going to get my hopes up because much of the general viewing public doesn't have the same opinion of what constitutes "brilliantly funny and life changing and worth every minutes of your viewing time" that I have.

I thought this was a relatively enjoyable episode to watch while I was knitting. It didn't make me stop what I was doing to make me concentrate on deciphering the plot (which probably means I missed plot holes, since I was just accepting things as they came), but kept me interested enough that I didn't go looking for the ballgame. I sort of like Kate's "So I took in her ten children...that was a joke" moment. Just enough angst to make her unsettled but it wasn't All.About.The.Feels.

I think I recall him trying to unlock the phone (most likely to check her messages and such to get more info) but not being able to do so. He didn't want to get rid of it until he could figure out what was up.

That show was on my "must watch" list even before seeing that trailer, simply because I need more Timothy Omundson on my TV screen.

I think you mean "they are team on crack, I tell ya." TBTB have written themselves into a corner, I think, There is no way to make this crazypants mish-mash of plot make sense. They can't reconcile the glaring weirdness (Castle, the patron saint of creature comforts, living in a pup tent? The dedicated family man leaving his mom and daughter in the dark for two months? Highly decorated/successful detectives who have themselves been falsely accused of crimes cannot fathom that this whole thing is hinky?) with the characters and plots as they stood just a few episodes ago. I'm not asking for long term continuity; I just want something that doesn't suggest that the everyone on the screen has been given a lobotomy and personality transplant since the penultimate episode of season 6.

The truth is, I know very few runners who need assistance with, um, [how to put this delicately...] proper movements. The lines at the restrooms at the Baltimore Running Festival are not due to unhydrating.

OMG, when Rafaelle gave that little kissy face toward the camera,and the third Cheerio met the other two...gah, it's like someone is chopping all the onions in here.

I honestly cannot think of any weight loss program ads that are not fairly insulting. I have been using Weight Watchers for years and I love it, but I hope that no one uses just the commercials to gauge the worth of the program.

I never watched Broadchurch or Breaking Bad, I think of David Tennent as Barty Crouch, Jr. (I'm well aware of his status as the Tenth Doctor, but didn't watch that either), so I am coming with a fairly clean slate. I'm in so far. I have long since given up on worrying about Brits/Scots/Irish/Aussies/New Zealanders doing American accents, so that didn't bother me. I got a bit of a Twin Peaks-ish vibe from the back story of small town with an unusual murder, although this does not look destined to have the quirkiness (and by "quirky" I mean "crazy-pants") that a David Lynch vehicle would. I didn't get a sense that the newspaper owner/editor was the reporter's mom, just his slightly overbearing boss, although I think she was right to be ticked at him leaking the story. I already dislike the SF reporter.