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Does Jenn eat dairy products? I hope she could at least enjoy the macaroni and cheese. I did see her eating some dark bread, which was probably amazing for her after all that time under eating, but it would be nice if she could at least enjoy one of the hot meals.

Carolyn's coming across as an insecure bitch. "I can't trust you because you were always talking to other people!" Well then, walk the hell over there and try joining the conversation, Nina Junior.

I love that Joaquney were so obnoxious with their sexist posturing that they couldn't even work with other men any more. "We can't trust him! He's celibate! That's like being gay or something! No fag cooties allowed on the bro train, buddy!" Guy doesn't want to have sex, what do you care? Let him not have sex. What, are your feelings hurt because you wanted to have a threesome with him or something? "We can't trust him, 'cause he goes to church!" Really? Does your whore mom go to church? She does? Then shut the hell up.

Now that you mention it, Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, died quite recently, so seeing a bit of imagery about giant turtles continuing on anyway kind of hits the spot for me. Not that I think the producers are actually familiar with Pratchett. Or with the Hindu origins behind his mythos. Or... with books...

I was rooting so hard for Team Beefcake to lose that reward challenge. All I could think of was "Who would appreciate sea turtles more? Shirin or Rodney?" Then when I saw the reward, I felt the same thing even more strongly. Poor turtle had enough to deal with, trying to get her nest dug with annoying flashlights all over her. Last thing she needed was to have to listen to "Yo, bitch, how about makin' me some ham with dem eggs?" the entire time. Could Mike have possibly been more obvious when he was throwing that reward? I was kind of hoping Jeff was going to just have to keep making it simpler and simpler. "OK, this time, I'll just tell you the item, and you try to hold it up. Human skull... really? Mike, that's your shoe!"

He'd have to die. Awesomely. I mean, he would have to go out in an even better scene than Merle did.

I had the same problem with this week's episode that Eric Cartman has with "Family Guy." The jokes had little or nothing to do with the plot. Chang was funny, and the thing with the Dean and the olives was great, but the dog thing just wasn't as funny as it could have been. Abed's comedic skills are being woefully ignored. I understand character development, but the man has comedic range. Making him the straight man is a big step down. I had trouble buying Annie getting that upset over the dog ad. Was she supposed to have thought the dog's feelings would be hurt by the commercial? Annie is emotional, but she's not stupid or insane. Normally, she gives big funny reactions to real problems, but is perfectly capable of saying "yeah, that one's not important." Britta was kind of funny, but, again, funny in a way that was completely cut off from the story. Sure, they've always had their share of weird silly little jokes that pop up and disappear without effecting the story, but the stories themselves have also traditionally been comedy gold mines. The first couple eps had new characters to introduce, and they had to get people drawn back into the world of Greendale even though three of the GD7 are gone. That's hard enough to do that I forgave them for not being as hilarious as I expected. But this week was a pretty straight forward comedy plot, and what I saw, sadly, was just plain bad lazy writing.

And Enid too!

Did Shane ever make a run to Virginia?

Here's another one, that hit me just as I was leaving for work today. Which means that the entire way there, I was thinking and over-thinking the shit out of it. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Right off the bat, the obvious leads that popped into my mind were Happy Rick as Billy Upset Rick as Dr. Horrible Pickled Pete as Captain Hammer and Jessie as Penny But then I immediately realized, we've seen the same pattern before. It could just as easily be Rick, Shane, and Lori. Say what you will about Lori. She did work a lot for the community, and she did manage to stay caught up on laundry. And as far as whether Rick is Horrible and Shane is Hammer, or vice versa, different arguments could be made by both. Or is Glenn Billy, and Aiden is Hammer? Who would be Penny then? Noah? What about the recasting of the show that took place in Eugene's head before he met CDB? No doubt he was Billy, Abe was Hammer, and Rosita was Penny. I imagine if you asked him today, he'd say Glenn was Billy, Aiden was Hammer, and Tara was Penny. You see what this one is doing to me? I've got to just pick a cast, post it, and get the hell on with my life. Rick Grimes is Billy Buddy/ Dr. Horrible. He's crazy, he has tragic taste in women, he hates laundry day, and he wants to force things to be better but sucks at actually bringing anything constructive to the table. He dreams of having enough time to bring his plans into fruition, but these brilliant plans themselves have yet to be seen. Or planned. Lori is Penny, for reasons listed earlier. Brillip is Captain Hammer. He isn't just a very tough guy who wants to make sure there are no dangerous criminals around hurting people. He himself is a psychotic bully who aggressively targets anyone who does not worship him, because he takes such an affront very personally. Also, both actors remind me of each other. A lot. Moist is Carl. Or possibly Eugene. The Groupies are Andrea, Katmiss, and Milton. The Singing Cowboys are Abraham, Axel, and Jim. And, obviously, Bad Horse is Buttons.

I think that was the tightest second line of any haiku ever.

Luftballoon knows that when Rick starts showing his extra-crazy, entire groups die. Realizing that it is the ultimate redshirt, it chooses to be elsewhere.

It's a Game of Thrones joke. Saying any more than that would have made it a Game of Thrones spoiler. ETA: Thanks for adding the tags!

I think it's going to turn out that the zombie virus is a biological weapon, but not an American one. Eventually it will turn out to have been started by North Korea, or perhaps even the old Soviet Union. The only people in the D.C. area who know this are a group of teenagers, who have gone somewhat insane in their attempts to warn everyone about it. What does the "W" stand for, you ask? "Wolverines!"

Staring in window Sam, what do you think you are? The damn Burger King? What kind of a cop just lives for war and conquest? Genghis Constable. Enid: "Watch me dash!" Coral: "That ain't nothing, girl... Watch me haberdash!"

I think Glenn would be in the Giles role. "He needs backup! Eugene! Abraham!"

Could be right about the helium. And maybe it was left in a basement for a while, then got found again when they were cleaning out houses for CDB. The balloons themselves might be running out soon, though, if Carol continues to use Sam as her "mule."

About the helium, they might have found a tank of it somewhere without a legible label on it. Other things that come in tanks are more useful, such as CO2, oxygen, and propane, so they grabbed it because they could. Later, when they figured out what it was, they just shrugged and decided to keep an eye out for balloons. About Pete's fighting prowess... for most of the fight, especially at the very beginning, Rick wasn't trying to kill Pete. Pete quite possibly was trying to kill Rick. Even if he beat him to death in front of witnesses, he could still fake an examination, claim there were still life signs, and "try" to save him. About Sasha "wasting" bullets: if every shot you fire eliminates a threat to the community, I'd say that's a hell of a lot more useful than just shooting at targets. I'm actually a little worried that she might kill all the Unfair Wolves before we even find out what their story is.

Deanna is a huge MASH fan. Well, early MASH. The reason she married Reg was that he reminded her of Henry Blake. However, she's not nearly as good a judge of character as she thinks she is. Pickled Pete has her convinced that drinking heavily during surgery means that he's Hawkeye Pierce. And now Rick has her convinced that he's Frank Burns.

They'd work for Carol's crime ring?

Overall, I found the script to be very goal-driven, at the expense of actual details making sense. "We need Rick and Pete to fight over Porch Chick, so make it happen." That sort of thing. The story outline itself had a few checkpoints which were linked together like a simple primitive connect-the-dots picture. But there was some good dialogue in there. Also some that could have been better, but some that was actually good. And the actors pretty much all knocked it out of the park. Pete was such a one-note thug that I kept expecting Rick to pull out a can of spinach before beating him, but others all did well. Say what you will about the Jessick conversation, I thought even in that scene both actors did a great job with the material they were given. It was the most interesting Jessie has ever been, that's for sure. And while I am certainly not a Rick fan, I do admit that AL does an amazing job at playing him.

I'm a few episodes late thinking of this, but... where on earth did they find a cop uniform that was too tight on Michonne? Does Baby Gap have a Halloween section?

When he first became an ASZcop, shouldn't he have asked about the legal system? And maybe had a carpenter or somebody make a decent nightstick, so if he got in a fight with a bunch of mean drunks, or maybe just one really big mean drunk, he wouldn't have to shoot or throat-bite them? And started thinking about things to do with criminals? I imagine a lot of them get community service, which is fine. But if somebody just isn't cooperating with that plan, you might still want something less drastic then exile. I mean, what if they're just a misbehaving child, for example? I think humiliation should be part of the ASZ police system. Every time you have to beat down Pete with a club, you put him in the stocks for a day, with no alcohol. Or lock him in a room with FPP and Eugene. Or make him smell Daryl's vest? He'd get the message soon enough.

Rick was just fine leaving Dawn and her violent, rapey lollipops in charge as long as they gave back Beth. So, yeah, if Rick hasn't specifically decided that he likes you, he really doesn't give a crap what happens to you.

Jessie and the kids should have moved out. Rick and Michonne could have kept Pete from attacking them while they packed their stuff. They could load everything they wanted into a big oxcart and have Abraham pull it. If/when Pete did come over to the new place and start trouble, they could stab him, write some crazy religious nonsense on the wall in his blood, and frame Father Pee Pants for the murder.