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Eeg, drowning in schmaltz. About all they missed was to have Walter/Paige/Ralph revisit the cliff, and the coyote and crow show up wanting to be the family pets. Maybe next season, if there is one.

Because Gil Grissom knows about bugs.

Yesterday's "Final Jeopardy" question, from http://j-archive.com -- WORLD LEADERS On the occasion of this late leader's visit to the U.S. in 2009, ABC News listed 112 various spellings of his name. Reminded me of Leo and the crossword puzzle in the pilot.

10 Times The Simpsons Predicted the Future http://www.oddee.com/item_99298.aspx?utm

From the S03.E19 One Watson, One Holmes thread: Music Clyde likes: Brahms Free to Be You and Me Goatwhore Music Clyde dislikes: Carmina Burana She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain Taylor Swift (all) Jerusalem

What will the public be told about what happened?

Would a rest room really have been labeled GENTLEMEN rather than just MEN? From a U.S. impression of British class consciousness, I wonder if a working class man would have felt welcome to use that facility.

For FJ I have used the book and have a copy, but at first I could only think of "the little book," which is what Strunk called it. (He was proud of how concise it was.) I remembered the actual title barely in time.

Wasn't the purpose of the game to determine whether H&B would keep the tardis or sell it, not to decide who could buy it? I was a bit surprised that Amy ended up with it, because surely Raj could outbid her. Unless she intimidated him into letting her buy it.

A U.S. program similar to the Child Migrants Programme was the Orphan Train. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train Not all the children were orphans, and siblings were often separated. Some children found loving homes but others were exploited as cheap labor.

The opening monologue could be worse -- it could be done as a song like "The Brady Bunch." (Thinking about how this show could be worse is much less to consider than thinking about how it could be better. It airs late when I'm tired.)

Years ago in "Punch" there was a cartoon of a room like those in DA, with a rope across the front (the sort used to keep tourists off the furniture). The family was sitting in the room having tea. A footman carrying a tray was stepping over the rope. One of the family said, "Tell [butler] we can do without the rope now we're closed for the winter."

IMO, "Castle" is not a good name for this show. Naming a show after one character can be very limiting if the actor leaves, or an on-screen relationship is not convincing, etc. Not to mention that "Castle" sounds like a PBS special on how to build a medieval fortification. If you had been in charge of this show before it ever aired, what would you call it? What are your criteria for a good name for a show? I might choose something like "Writer and Muse," which is descriptive and still allows replacing an actor if necessary. Hoping you have better ideas.

Dunno how unpopular this is, but I would enjoy the show more if they cut way back on the fistfights and gunfights.

When they needed more voters I expected a "dead voters in Chicago" joke. Since the writers knew something about The West Wing, they should know that it is bad luck *not* to write a concession speech. Glad Alicia knew to write one.

What was the clue for the composers? J!Archive doesn't have it yet.

AIUI, police use German shepherds and similar dogs for crowd control etc., but (at least for some departments) dogs to be trained to detect drugs etc. are often selected from shelters and may be almost any breed. I liked this dog because as a mixed breed (probably from a shelter) she symbolized the Battle Creek PD's lower budget, and she certainly took her work seriously.

I'm glad they didn't use a real Boston subway line. Bad enough that they ran an "attempted mass murder in Boston" story while the Boston Marathon bombing trial is in progress. Not that I expect sensitivity (or accuracy) from TV, but they could have waited to air this ep until the trial is finished. Or if the show has been canceled by then, no great loss.

A good gas stove can last for decades. There are plenty still around that have no electrical connection. Mrs. W had a yellow refrigerator (probably 1970s) so she probably didn't replace the stove if it still worked.

In S&L's living room, sometimes* we get a view out the window and there are low mountains/hills. I'm not familiar with the LA area (Pasadena?) but AIUI there is a line of low mountains somewhat back from the coast that can be seen when atmospheric conditions are good. Is it safe to guess that these are what we see, so that this window looks east, probably across roads and buildings? * most recently in "The Leftover Thermalization"

Why couldn't the black tie charity event be a fundraiser for the scholarship in honor of Beckett's mother? We still haven't seen that.

Why did Jake's father's pilot uniforms fit Jake and Boyle so well? They should have been baggy on both, and way too long for Boyle.

I thought Page said she had known about the mission involving these countries, and that was why she chose them as the subject of her paper. Overall, though, this show would be barely less ludicrous if the characters could fly. I *really* wish they would get rid of the intro, because it implies that the show has something to do with the real world.

It actually could have been worse -- PA could have worn tank tops.