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It didn't really occur to me until I read this post, but yeah, this would be the perfect sort of episode for Ducky to appear in. I get the impression the actor is pretty much retired and only shows up for like 5 minutes a season because he's contractually obligated to.

"We need to get the Harlans into protective custody." You mean, the woman had a severed head and a bomb delivered to her yet and her husband weren't in protective custody already? Bones made going over the top with body reveals a thing, and ever since then other similar shows have been going more extreme with body reveals and autopsies. I was just glad that the actress shadowing them treated everything seriously rather than be the stereotype of every successful actress ever. She didn't spend the whole episode doing things like whining "the sea air is messing up my hair!", didn't constantly go out of her way to irritate everybody around her just because she's famous or anything like that. I took one look at that woman in her overly big sunglasses and the big white coat and had this horrifying vision that at some point she would point at Torres and go "Cabanna Boy! Get me a Pina Colata! Chop chop!" but that thankfully didn't happen. She took a look at what what was happening and all the bodies and freaked the hell out after a bit of trying to fake being together.

In the cane's case it's a matter of personal preference. Sometimes depending on the injury having it on the same side is more comfortable than having it on the opposite side. In an emergency situation like with Palmer though? He really should know better.

Getting caught up, but honestly if I were Peter's family I would've just shrugged, left the real Peter for dead, and stuck with holoPeter. It's clear that the actual Peter hates his entire family and wants nothing to do with them considering how many episodes of the show involve Peter reluctantly going along with what his family wants to do at best and outright ditching them at worst only to end up "missing" them and realizing he wants to spend time with them after all. In fact... Get Stewie two episodes later had the exact same plotline between Peter and Chris! They're recycling plots not just from the same season but not even 5 episodes from each other! Also yes, holoPeter trying to kill realPeter to replace him was utterly predictable. Going nuts and subsequently trying to kill the rest of the family was less obvious. Hell, Lois didn't even care about the trip, she spent the whole time trying to one up Bonnie posting pics on some... social media site I can't remember the name of. I spent the the whole time with Peter and Lois in Vermont thinking "You know, if you wanted to make a post that killed Bonnie's so badly Lois heading to freaking PARIS and doing it there would probably do the trick." If Quagmire had actually spent 2 minutes thinking he could've narrowed down where Stewie had gone and found him easily enough or at least had some clue where to look. Hint: Check the subway routes. Yet another episode where Stewie acts like a baby in this case being overexcited about hide and seek and then somehow getting hopelessly lost in Paris despite being intelligent enough to build time machines. Which is in real life how nearly all of these incidences start. A person makes a harmless joke or just tries to make a nice comment as you said only to be ostracized when someone takes offense to it and raises a big stink that gets lots of other people riled up. At least when Brian did it he was old enough to have a clue that what he was doing could be offensive. This was a post by a 1 year old infant that wasn't even offensive anyway. The only thing I had to say about Peter's "get thin" plotline that nobody has already said is when Peter took a few steps and apparently was so out of shape he collapsed to the ground on the spot was "Long time no Chicken fight eh Peter?"

Lucy Lucy Lucy... on the one hand, she didn't take too long to fess up to Whistler about what was wrong. On the other, Lucy didn't just walk up the Whistler and tell her the second she heard about the agent afloat position like she should have. Lucy/Whistler are SO annoying as a couple, not helped by the fact that not an episode goes by without having to deal with their drama.

Animals tend to be able to tell the difference between recordings and the real thing, so long as they've heard the real thing before.

This makes 4 votes. It's not like Cleveland's job as a mailman actually came up all that much (this is the only episode I can remember it's actually been a plot point) so it would've been a good chance to have things happen at the brewery more. I know if I were Cleveland I would've taken that job and just reinstated Peter. Well, if I were Cleveland I wouldn't have Peter for a friend anyway so there's that.

Jesse's dialog this episode: "Hey everybody! Did you know Fentanyl was bad? Yes? Well I'm going to keep saying it's bad over and over anyway until you want to bash your own TV in just to shut me up!" Drug PSA disguised as a NCIS episode, they couldn't just have stopped the drug dealers without Jesse having to monologue about it like they've done a million times before on episodes with drug dealers just like this? I am so looking forward to when it turns out Cass is just playing with Alex and he goes running back to Mommy after she drains his bank account and cheats on him. The woman had "flakey" written on her from day one so I'm all but certain something like that will happen. I don't know why Ernie didn't just take 5 seconds to say "my Dad was a jackass and that's why I don't want to talk about it." Like usual on these shows when someone has a personal problem someone like Lucy had to keep badgering the about it until they finally talked just to get them to stop. Exactly. Jesse should be trained to know better than that. Always make sure you yourself are safe before lending aid to anyone else. That's one of the first things they teach anyone when they're trained to help people.

If this was Hawaii 5-0, literally every supposed good guy who wasn't on the team would turn out to be a bad guy, especially if they were a love interest. Whistler would turn out to be a Russian drug lord or something, Alex's girlfriend would be in the mob and dating Tennant's son to fish for info, and Captain Milius would be a deep cover spy for the KGB. And all of them would somehow end up working for a bad guy that's been a constant thorn in the team's side that should've gotten shot dead several seasons ago. Because it's impossible to have healthy romantic and even familial relationships on that show. Ever. Just wait until he starts to become popular specifically because he's a bit of lightness every once in a while, then the writers notice and start shoehorning him into every last episode they can possibly justify it in an attempt to boost ratings, missing that the man is interesting because he's used sparingly and so just becomes extremely annoying. Honestly I think it was Criminal Minds they were making fun of there. The fact that their profiling criminals works all the time on their own show but is extremely ineffective and just a bunch of guesswork in real life.

I was fully expecting to hear a gunshot while the commercial guy was explaining what bridge was.

They did the actual killer the way I wish shows like this would every time. In NCIS and similar shows it's always one of the first 2 people the cops interrogate, because the writers are hoping you'll have forgotten who they are by the time they reach the last 5-10 minutes of the episode when they actually reveal who the killer is. This was much better. Instead of it being someone the team interrogates at all, it's some random guy we see in the background that the audience probably doesn't even notice. This is the first time in a long time I haven't predicted who it was immediately.

I kept wondering why the doctor guy didn't just sabotage the liver before they even left the hospital. He would have had both the know how and the opportunity to do that. Well, I guess then we wouldn't have had a running gun battle through the woods. Knight could've kept those guys running in cycles for hours. If she didn't try to ambush them she wouldn't have been caught. DUCKY!!! His appearances are so rare these days and really it just makes me miss him more, but I understand that the actor just can't do this work anymore as his age. It was almost like the old days with Ducky taking over as medical examiner for the time being and talking to the corpse. It just makes me realize as good as Jimmy is, he'll never come close to filling Ducky's shoes on this show. Yeah. Kasie is much much more irritating, childish, and unprofessional than Abby ever was. At least Abby's quirks never got in the way of her actually doing her job. Just giving Kasie a gambling addiction came completely out of left field.

Catching up on NCIS lately. Kayla... I thought she was supposed to be a trained agent? She not only got ambushed by the mobster guy, but made no attempt to get free as he kidnapped her. If it was any of the main cast they would've broken out some Judo moves or something and laid that guy's ass out. Then she just sits in a chair and makes no attempt to escape at any point. Kayla's only contribution was talking down her other captor once she got held hostage... again. You would think that FLETC would've trained her for this exact sort of situation.

Finally actually watching these episodes, but yeah. Honestly it would have been much better for the show as a whole not to mention Kara's life had Kara quit Catco years ago. One of the consistent issues with the show had been for the longest time holding onto this old relic of an idea long past it's usefulness. The show had, after the first couple seasons at the most, diminished Catco's presence in the show greatly to the point that it wasn't long before Kara was spending 5 minutes there tops in the course of several episodes. Even Kara's life as Kara Danvers has had almost nothing to do with Catco, so she's not even sacrificing her civilian life by quitting. Even if she was, it's not like she couldn't build up a much more flexible social life outside of Catco. The vast majority of the people Kara knows work with her as Supergirl anyway. Catco was an artifact passed down from Superman working at the Daily Planet, and even there it hung on long after it had any actual importance to Superman's stories. The actual comics Supergirl had no need for anything like Catco and was a vastly different character in general, as opposed to this Supergirl who is nothing more than a female Superman. Supergirl probably would've been a lot more interesting and distinctive to her cousin had she had the personality she did in the comics, which was more prone to aggression.

Didn't Cleveland buy the Petercopter and turn it into the Clevelandcopter only to crash it because of the mustache? And this is from a woman who, upon seeing her family could actually get along without her on Christmas instead of ended up in a huge disaster decided to steal everything to ruin their Christmas Grinch style out of sheer spite, only to blame it all on some neighbors I think and get them arrested for the crime. At least this time she had the excuse of being high out of her mind. Anybody should've recognized the Superman 2 reference. There's behind the times and then there's being born blind and deaf and only the latter wouldn't know that reference.

Meg puppeting a dead fat pizza guy in order to do Thriller was the best part.

It probably helps that Whistler has dropped that condescending holier than thou attitude she had in the first couple episodes. Still, I would've greatly preferred it if she just didn't have that in the first place.

Brian being an asshole. Must be Sunday. Brian is right, Christmas is about commercialism and honestly all the family stuff is just fluff to make it look better than it actually is, but using that to justify what he did was wrong. He should've simply owned up to what he did immediately. Family Guy is a comedy so people being dicks is a given, but Brian they just go out of their way to make the biggest dick possible. Peter at least has the excuse of being too stupid to know what he's doing most of the time, but Brian really should know better.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Family Guy is best when they're parodying something as an episode premise, like noir in this case. To the point that when it's not I can usually tell the episode is going to be decent at best. It probably requires them to actually put some thought and effort into the episode as a whole in order to use all the characters effectively, which they don't really with the standard episodes.

The way she was throwing herself at Ernie I get the impression that Ernie dreaded seeing her because she's one of those "pick out the patterns for the napkins at our wedding even though it's just the first date" insanely clingy types. I know I wouldn't go within a hundred miles of a woman like that so I think Ernie's reaction is understandable. And she still gets him to take her out for coffee.

The fact that Gibbs was chronically incapable of using any modern tech except a flip phone because "LOL old people are terrible at technology! LOL" thing went way past funny into irritating not long after they introduced the fact. The fact that it jeopardized a case last season was the last straw. The fact that Parker seems to actually have a clue about modern life was just one of the things that made me not miss Gibbs. That, and Parker has consistently avoided the mistake that the writers make with so many replacement characters on these NCIS shows: Parker is not a dick. In fact, he's consistently shown that he is anything but, he's a nice jovial guy that actually puts in a bit of effort to get people to like him. So many replacements are these "rough on the edges" characters who are consistently dicks to everyone they encounter for little to no reason for at least a dozen episodes before they eventually get a bit of character development and stop, but by then they've been soured, like nearly everybody they ever replaced old characters with on New Orleans. It's nice to see a character who is just nice out of the gate and we don't have to go through that painful nonsense.

TV has always had characters get wounded and shrug it off like it never happened after an episode tops, oftentimes in the episode itself. Gibbs himself has been badly wounded on the show at least half a dozen times before this, spent a bit in the hospital and then the wound heals instantly and he's out running and jumping again. If they were being remotely realistic that puncture wound would've have Gibbs laid out for weeks if not months and been confined to a desk for even longer, and that's if he even survived. Honestly I hated that revelation. It would've made significantly more sense if this guy was a serial killer as originally presented. A contract killer would both have much more efficient means of killing their targets and know how to dispose of a body all without leaving a trace, it's kinda a prerequisite to be competent at the job. Not to mention the fact that nobody including the FBI that had been following the guy "for months" noticed that all the victims apparently had cause to be targets of a contract killing. Everything involved including trying to go after Marcie and trying to kill Gibbs (who were openly investigating him keep in mind) would fit much better if this guy whose name I don't even remember was simply a serial killer. The whole "contract killer" thing seems contrived to give a Big Bad for the remainder of the season. Not to mention this FBI guy was standing around watching this "contract killer" for months while wearing the exact same disguise all the time and in plain sight. This supposed "contract killer" not noticing the guy following him around is where my suspension of disbelief gets broken.

They didn't find anything, Enigma just brainwashed Julia into believing that they did. She tries to look back into it later on only to keep hitting roadblocks until Enigma just brainwashes Julia again into leaving. It's pretty clearly explained I think in the episodes where Julia leaves.

So... Krypton had robots with very advanced A.I., interstellar travel, the ability to grow massive crystalline structures, and probably dozens and dozens of other things I'm forgetting, but somehow they couldn't effortlessly deal with trash in the oceans? Also, a ton of trash in the ocean is going to lead to the Earth exploding, because that's what happened to Krypton... somehow. Of course Zor-El's plan ended up backfiring and turning into the threat of the week, just like how the protagonists have access to the tech from dozens of different species on top of an alien that is implied to be as smart as it's possible to be and yet can't deal easily with any threat of the week without have to try. If it actually worked then there's the environmental message of the episode turned on it's head.

Amen. Especially without the goggles Beth has no purpose on the JSA and she didn't do that much even when she did have Chuck. Either get her some high tech super gadgets to fight with or something or just leave her behind because she's just a liability. Yeah, Mike was all depressed about screwing up but he didn't, not really. All that happened was his genie wasn't powerful enough to handle the bad guy who, let's face it, was probably was going to end up fighting the whole JSA and effortlessly kicking their butts regardless. If I were Mike, my first wish after finding out about that ridiculous "have to be specific" clause would be this: "I wish that, without compromising my ability to speak or function otherwise, I will from this point on be incapable of speaking any wishes intentional or accidental that are not phrased in a way that will only generate results accurate to my intent when the wish was made." There, now I've got a safeguard. Exactly! Especially with a genie like Thunderbolt that doesn't deliberately twist wishes to be malicious and thus would actually grant such a wish. It's because then there wouldn't be any sort of conflict. When you've got a magical wish granting genie that gives you exactly what you want when you wish for something any plot stops working. It's the same reason why the Green Lantern ring Alan Scott or not can supposedly do ANYTHING but the user doesn't just wish the problem of the week away.