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I'd love to hear Morgan explain that entire Gertrude Stein thing, while Daryl or somebody stands there slack-jawed and asks "That was Frankenstein's bride, right?"

Previously, on AMC's "The Walking Dead:" Rick: A big hole full of walkers! Quick! We have to noisily lead them out of town for twenty miles. Carter: We could reinforce the perimeter, which would allow time to discuss a more expedient method of dispatch. Rick: So since no one has any ideas, we need to have that parade right now! With balloons! (Zaniness ensues.) Morgan: Hey, there's a bunch of Mad Max rejects killing everyone. Carol: And one of them just got entrails in my yard. That's it. No cookies for these fuckers. Morgan: CitiZen's arrest! You have the right to remain silent.. Carol: You sure do. BANG! Stab! Stab! Stab! Jessie: Hey, that looks fun. Stab! Stab! Stab! Morgan: Hey, that's not necessary. All these kids need is a little parental discipline. You there! You're in time out! Romulus: OK, we're stopping right now, mister. Ooh, free gun. Finders keepers, dude. Morgan: Good idea. We wouldn't want to leave that where just anyone could find it. Carol: What the hell, Morgan? Why didn't you stick-fu them to death? Morgan: I have been reborn. As a ninja turtle. Enid: I like turtles! Rick: Remember, if it gets ugly out there, just leave all the redshirts behind. Heath: Dude, we're standing right here. We can hear you. (Zaniness ensues.) Morgan: It sure is nice to go home and put on my fuzzy ducky slippers after a long day of scolding murderers. Remus: Helter skelter, Old Peaceful Guy! I'm gonna kill you and your fuzzy ducky slippers! Morgan: You do realize that I can beat you guys up like five at a time, right? Remus: Say whuh? Morgan: Which means if you come here alone, you get a quintuple load of whoop-ass. (Gives quintuple load of whoop-ass.) Morgan: Sorry. Father Pee Pants: I'm sorry, too. Is there anything I can do to help? Everybody except Nicholas: No! Nicholas: Actually, you could give me some advice. What should I do if I'm surrounded by zombies? Glenn: Are you fucking kidding me? Rick: Oops. I cut my hand. So is this one of those weeks where we even have to wear eye protection when stabbing walkers? Or is it one of those weeks where Abraham can punch them to death until his fists bleed? I wonder what happens in the comics. Hey, maybe that RV has comics in it. I could look at them here, or I could bring them back with me. Coral likes comics. Where's Coral? (Enters RV. Meets Wolves. Zaniness ensues.) Carl: Well, screw it. If I'm not getting laid this season, I'm putting the hat back on.

I don't get why the MIB guys shot her down before even speaking to her. It's not like they were trying to hold her prisoner afterwards. They just wanted to ask her to stay out. So, after the airplane incident, why not start out by sending a government person or two over to talk to her? That way you don't risk her getting mad at you for shooting her out of the sky. You don't risk getting the kryptonite dosage wrong and really hurting or killing her when she falls. And you don't reveal that her best friend/stepsister is spying on her. Nor do you risk missing the shot and having her fly off to another big public event without even knowing that you were trying to talk to her.

Overall, I liked it. Certain elements were rushed, but at least you can't say they haven't gotten to the main story. I'll watch it again next week, certainly. But there are few nit picks. I'm sure somebody asks this every time there's a new version of the Superman mythos, but I'm gonna be that guy. Why don't all the Kryptonians just leave their dying planet and move to a yellow sun? Seems pretty win-win. If I had Super powers, and was fighting someone who was tougher than me and could jump 50 feet but couldn't fly, I'd throw bricks at him from a hundred feet up. And... does Kara need glasses? So, like, as Supergirl, she's going to have trouble reading? Or, even though she had no double identity thing going on , has she just randomly been disguising herself as a nerd by wearing clear glasses every day?

It is for most other heroes these days...

Yeah, the "southerners are dumb" schtick is completely disingenuous to the show itself. Have they already forgotten where half their main characters are from?

I read it the other way, actually. I am more interested in Liv acting zany than I am in the actual cases, and I think the writers are playing to that. The murder mysteries were established as a way to make sure she keeps eating interesting new brains every epsisode, that's all. Otherwise, she'd load up on the most normal boring brains she could find and just eat those.

You know, we've talked a lot about what to do with a big hole full of zombies. Burn them? Use bullets on them? Slings? Arrows? Javelins? How about... nothing? I mean, we know how soft most of their heads are, and there's no cover above them, so obviously they haven't been there that long, nor will they. Every time a good rainstorm comes along, it kills many of them, and whenever it hails, it wipes out practically their entire population. The ones with tree cover survive, but not the ones trapped in a big wide open area. Not any more, at least. So just focus on containment, occasionally use them for target practice if you want, and trust nature to periodically destroy them a few times a year. But of course we can't do that. Because letting Carter and the other construction guys improve pit security wouldn't have showcased Rick as alpha male. And that would make him look weak. Which would make bad people come and attack the town. Because the motivation of this entire planet revolves around Rick's machismo.

That's not a super power. That's just them having met him. I went to bed last night thinking Glenn was dead, but now that I've actually slept a little I don't think so any more. The group getting an RV again right when Glenn dies seems like.. a bit much. And not in the usual style of this show's a bitmuchness, if that makes any sense. Mostly agreed with Michonne, but I think it actually is okay to write notes, just in case. And, because it cannot possibly be said enough times, fuck Nicholas. Fuck him with a giant bag of horny zombies, and then make him watch every scene that he's ever been in, and then fuck him some more, and then send him to hell and let Buttons fuck him.

So, they run into what's left of the Wolves, maybe? And FPP locks himself outside the gate, so the Wolves eat him or zombify him or whatever their ultimate schtick is? Hence the title. Rick is so grateful to them for solving The Pee Problem that he rewards them with the shiny new pasta maker that he found right before discovering the quarry.

Rick gets a phone call from Lori, and goes back to their original home town to talk to her? And instead of Lori, he finds a whole monastery of cheesemakers.

Well, it's great joke, isn't it? Look how funny it ended with Cassandra. Seems like by now somebody might point out that Murphy was largely responsible for getting her killed. 10K was afraid for his life, because she was not lightening up on the attack. Did Murphy even leave instructions about bathroom privileges? Then how the hell was that not supposed to end badly? I wanted to like the Sketchy story. I spotted the King and Duke reference right away, and I did like their Murphy scam. But most of it was a huge, transparent, badly written waste of screen time. I thought Southern Dandy Guy was not only ridiculous, but also extremely over-written. Why the hell would he assume that the truck drivers delivering to Burrtown didn't know what it was called? Scorpion Guy was actually kind of fun this week, though. Maybe because he was the only actor in the scene showing a little bit of subtlety.

Yeah, Deanna sucks. Not only did she put Crazy, Blood-Covered, Feeding Slightly Crushed Raw Acorns To Babies, Punching Folk Unconscious For Showing Pictures, And Don't Even Get Him STARTED On Applesauce... (at least Carol puts it in cookies!) ... Rick in charge of keeping the peace, but she had no interest in telling him what the laws actually were. Nor in telling him who was exempt. I do assume that the town shrink was among those who saw the interview vids. Maybe Rick's just triggered off so much of a panic attack that Deanna finally gave up on trying to make her watch the whole thang.

iZombies are humans. They are chemically altered humans, but even that chemical alteration has been proven to be reversible. Vampires on Buffy are a hybrid organism, part human and part demon. Zombies on TWD are also probably also a hybrid organism, part human and part virus or whatever. On this show, though, no such thing.

Goodbye, Monica! I don't remember you on your first season, either, but I will miss those little purple shorts.

Alexandria is like Springfield. It is exactly as big as the plot requires.

I love it! The first sentence in that link: This sweet take on a holiday classic was submitted by Carol Johnson of Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. Throw in a few things about scissors, Hollywood faux-Buddhism, and some gratuitous over-use of the letter W... and that would be pretty much cover this whole episode!

Fighting with a stick. Should it be used for killing? Or kept up one's ass? Huge place for thumpers Church of Urinology Hams Eugene's biscuits Just survive somehow and hope that Coral Junior likes raw tortoises

Crazy or not, Morgan's fortification of that town he was holed up in was pretty great. And I loved him in the Season 5 finale. Very cool, very skilled at surviving and defending himself, and if a wandering loner wants to just beat up a couple of guys and leave them to (possibly) grow into someone better, I'm not particularly bothered by that. But what we saw this week was war. On the battlefield, you play for realsies. Hit to kill, and if you do miss a few kills, maybe they're at least crippled or otherwise out of the fight. Was he more useful than most of the ASZhats? Yes. Of course. But that's putting the bar pretty low. Plus, I'm still annoyed with him for saving FPP. Morgan doesn't even know the rules! Black man enters, black man dies. And if it's not the very-deserving bearer of the Shroud of Ur-ine, that means it's going to have to be either Heath, who I really like thus far, or Morgan, who I still like far more than Father Pee Pants and could easily be talked into being a real fan of again, if he'd just stop trying to tell psychotic gangs who are in mid-massacre to go to "time out."

Then how are they making cola-canned ham? Pete looked like he still had both legs intact, but maybe not...

About the way Carol spoke to Sam: it's actually very possible that she was simply re-establishing normal boundaries, now that his home life was no longer dangerous. Remember, he doesn't need a surrogate mother. He already has an actual real-life mother, right next door, living in the exact same house that he does. If at all possible, healing from Peter's porchdickmanship should be a family process, not just each individual member of the household meandering off in a different direction. Is it possible that she was also telling herself: "About time I get to stop making cookies for the little shit?" Sure. But as a mother, from a family with an abusive father, there is no way in hell she wouldn't feel like she was intruding on Jessie's business by luring the only halfway tolerable kid in the family away with cookies. If Jessie turns into a crackhead next week, I'm sure Carol will have Sam's back again.

Actually... so is a human...

One difference between Alexandria and Afghanistan is that I think it's a lot easier to keep track of who the enemy is if they all have a big W on their head that stands for "We are going to kill everybody here unless you kill us first!" And they are in the immediate process of killing everybody there unless you kill them first. And they are saying: "We are going to kill everybody here unless you kill us first." What was he waiting for? "Simon says?" Granted, he did try to to restrain that one guy, but, putting aside the fact that CDB does not have a good history of figuring out what to do with prisoners... how does Morgan feel about interrogation by torture? I mean, do you really think Season Six Rick wouldn't do things to that Wolf that would give Jack Bauer nightmares?

Carol's in a spaghetti western. It must be Tuesday.