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@rosebutt was the best answer on FTW! Maybe the best answer ever. I protest the audience pandering to Chris and Wil's gif feud. ;)

Does he have problems with his proprioception? I twice knocked over her pet's water and food dishes at my sister's house. Twice! I truly thought I was walking around them. And she has laminate floors so had to madly wipe everything up, pretending she wasn't pissed. "Don't WORRY ABOUT IT!" Heh. Unless I'm having (ahem) gastrointestinal issues, I'm never in a hurry in cashier lines these days. I appreciate it when a clerk with a newly opened lane personally walks the correct "next person" over to his/her spot -- except if I already have my items dumped on the conveyor. That's past the point of no return and I'm not gonna sweep everything up again. It's snowbird season in Central Florida, so 2-3 times the normal amount of traffic, and today everybody seemed to have forgotten the rules for two- and four-way stop signs. Please do not wave me to go when it's not my turn!

Well, fuck me. Looks like it also affects @midnight and Drag Race. I'm thisclose to cancelling cable but was counting on Hulu to provide access to several shows.

I wish Seth had followed up a bit more in his interview with that conservative guy from Utah.* While it's heartening to see some people on the right trying to hold the Constitutional line against the current administration, I wanted to hear how he believes such opposition can be carried out. I know he talked about his non-profit but that's basically a lobbying group. Seth usually does a good job with political guests but this one felt kind of like he was going through preset interview cards in his head. I hadn't seen those clips of people in Utah booing/jeering at Chaffetz during his town hall meeting. Made me smile. * Eh, looked it up -- Evan McMullin.

Right? We see it every day of our lives just walking down a street -- and for me, looking in the mirror! -- but it's so rarely promoted on TV that it's worth celebrating. (Although comedians as a whole frequently do play up their outsider personalities and alt-looks, so there's that. Of course the show itself venerates geek culture.) Anyway, I hope they're able to incorporate some of the new bits from this week where possible; they've been fun.

No hyperbole or anything, but Teenage War was one of the best skits I've ever seen on a late night show. Stephen was great with the kids (his improv background finally being utilized well), but then actually making the trailer -- with the correct actors! -- put it over the top.

It was all in the line reading, but I cracked up when Jimmy mimicked Kenny's voice in his annual Comic Con turn down: "Do you even know me?" I also loved Shannon telling her brothers they could, you know, always drink from the mini bar. Congrats to Jimmy for taking a single swig of whatever was in that prop bottle. It was probably iced tea or colored water, but it looked so gross. Of course Eileen could sniff out even traces of peach schnapps! And Pat not wanting to ground Shannon because he felt bad that her friend moved away in the middle of the night? Aw. He and Jimmy are two peas in a sweet, subilluminated pod.

The madcap adventures of Ezra and Richard may be too much of a contrast for me compared to the more straightforward dramatic tension of Maddie running her new con. The disparate tone of the two storylines is giving me a little whiplash. As a general rule, I prefer serious to slapsticky, so Ezra and Richard's journey of failed cons and dropped wallets made me exasperated more than amused or charmed, even given that both actors are very easy on the eyes. I haven't bothered to learn the names of Maddie's two older team members. The writers aren't giving them anything much to do so I'm going to hold off caring until they become something more than props. I didn't want Maddie to be caught that easily so was glad to see the doorbell scene switcharoos.

"But of course, to Mike Pence, a lie is just a truth that hasn’t gone through conversion therapy yet.” Ha! The graphic of Stephen Miller as two thirds of the way to Mr. Burns made me snort laugh. For posterity, just because it was so exxxcelent:

Considering how annoying I found Jon Batiste when the show started, it's quite a turnaround to me liking him now. It took a while for him to become less stilted and let his personality shine. He and Stephen have also settled into a more comfortable groove.

The Bunker has an article today about the 25th anniversary of Miscavige's disasterous Nightline appearance. I never really processed that Miscavige was only 25 when Hubbard died and he initiated his power grab. That's awfully young to be so shrewdly conniving. I assume others have also started reading Rindah's blog since the show? I gotta say, I find some of his replies in the comments section to be thin-skinned and bordering on rude. Like he told one poster not to worry her pretty little head when she suggested some legal avenues. He doesn't take criticism well. He's got decades of indoctrination behind him but it seems like even after all the time, he still maintains some of that Scientology superiority mindset. Or maybe he was that way all along. I changed my mind about him several times on the show, going from kind of negative at first, to slightly positive, then back down again. I admire him but he can be hard to like.

Surely Dulé Hill must be standing on a ladder in that still with Laverne.

Happy insincere, forced romance day!

That was chaotic but fun. I had to pause in order to read the online hashtag submissions but they were pretty funny. Good job on whoever was reviewing them to select which ones to air. FTW with a surprise viewer entry was great but I wanted to know which one it was! A lot depends on the panelists so we'll see how the live shows hold up the rest of the week. There aren't any camera hogs scheduled (hi Chris D'Elia!) so I'm hopeful. I loved Kyle's t-shirt story and Tom's follow-up. Available on iTunes!!

I want that on a hat. ;)

Not enough fashion, too much Dynasty. The pilot felt like an entire season's worth of melodrama in 90 minutes. Beatings, betrayal, murder, double-crosses, secrets, Nazi collaborators! Kind of exhausting.

I AM HEARTILY SORRY FOR MY SINS, FATHER. I'm offering this act of contrition for never having fully appreciated the comedic wattage of Melissa McCarthy. For these sins and those I cannot now remember, I humbly repent and ask for absolution. Man, the woman never breaks, never looks like she's reading from the prompter, and is even able to speak around wads of chewing gum. She was adorable and all as Sookie, but her Groundlings experience is really shining through now. (I was also impressed that she was able to lift her leg onto the podium.) Given the chance, Lorne will always run a sketch into the damned ground, but in this case I probably won't mind. I just hope my penance isn't that I have to watch Mike and Molly.

Those larvae were stomach-churning! I couldn't believe the bunny just sat there and let Jeff squeeze away. And to the owner: Please, gurl. Those "black spots" are called fleas. Kind of well known and easy to recognize. It was interesting to see the vet tech use that plexiglass shield on the cat who was having hip surgery. He just wasn't having it, which you know must happen a lot but which we rarely see on vet shows. And gosh, the clinic only charged around $400 for surgery that the other vet quoted at $4000? I kind of don't know how Jeff stays in business sometimes. Not that a trailer isn't small, especially for two people, but I was a little surprised to hear Jeff grouse about it, only because he used to basically sleep on a cot in his old apartment and doesn't seem like he much cares about creature comforts. The apartment turned out very nicely and it was typical for Jeff to postpone finishing it because the clinic needed the funds more. And good ol' Hector doing some of the finishing work himself. He really is a part of Jeff's family.

You aren't alone, but I can beat that -- I still really enjoy the show and all the characters. ;)

Interesting. I hadn't considered that. Since Roan was one of the Wizard's guards, was he there as a spy for Glinda? How did he get jiggy with Glinda in the first place? We've only seen her surrounded by and interacting with females, so I'm curious how Roan became part of her circle.

Here's how we all get rich: There's so much blather from every single ex-Scientologists about how helpful the basic Communication courses were, how they gained confidence, that they brought a lot of benefit and positive change, yadda yadda. So let's crib some info off the Internet about basic communication skills, franchise a chain of storefronts and charge $50 a course. People can finally freaking communicate and we won't make them mortgage their houses and break off family ties to do it. Jeez.

Re the brown rice discussion in the episode thread, I really like this stuff. Only 90 seconds in the microwave. It's short grain with a nice nutty taste and slightly sticky texture.

It was pretty cute when Sheldon teasingly upbraided his wife about how messy her station was. It really sounded like these three particular spouses hardly cook at all at home, and I'm so jealous.

I'd like the show to lean more into the craziness of living in a superhero universe instead of being basically a workplace comedy. Maybe it's coming.

Slow drains, ammiright? Minor triumph indeed, but as I wearily bought yet another bottle of drain cleaner, I was resigned that it wouldn't work just like all the others. Many houses, many states, many clogged bathroom sinks. And then it totally worked! I was mesmerized watching the water easily swirl down the drain. (I deliberately didn't look up how we're probably not supposed to use corrosive drain cleaners, so don't harsh my mellow.)