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Took Modern Family until the last 5 episodes of the series to realize that maybe Ariel Winters wants to look her age instead like she is 13 in middle school. Better late than never I guess.

Right and not to turn this into another reason why the Seinfeld finale is up there in the Top 10 worst TV finales. All they had to do was their lawyer to argue: "They don't even live or are citizens in this town? How are they SUPPOSED TO KNOW THE LAWS and expect to KNOW THEM?" Same here with Ted, he is suppose to be written as evil when really he is just a moron who doesn't get what he is doing is wrong. Because he's an idiot.

Yeah and I hate when TV shows box characters like that. Not only is it cliche but shows just how much of an understanding these writers really have. It's kind of like the tired cliches: 1. Girl is really pretty, but doesn't know how to look "sexy". 2. Guy can't cook or clean, but he can fix any automobile or appliance. 3. Person who is career driven will ignore their families. 4. Person who loves video games or comics is officially a "child" and can't hold down a real job or relationship. 5. Person who has an over bearing mother/father will come across as a 5 year old instead of the fact it's on the parent not the offspring.

The fact it should have been Carina talking Andrew down and doing everything, since she is HIS DAMN SISTER! And has had to go through it tons of time with their father, or did she just make up all those stories?

Plus, Cyntha in real life dressed pretty damn well. If they would have made it where MIranda just didn't know how to look out in public outside professional and then switch to "at home mode". Ok then, but I know my mom once said: "Does that woman know how to dress? Carrie at least has an excuse."

Even in the US, there are companies that have to pay in anyhow for unemployment, especially here in Illinois where you pay for everything. Yet, there are private practices and companies that try to keep people from getting unemployment benefits just because. Even though they pay like everyone else. My wife worked for a dental practice and lost her job there because they wanted to hire the secretaries son and had to get rid of someone. They then were trying to tell the state that my wife was always late and left when she wanted too. When she couldn't drive and either I, my father or my father-in-law dropped and picked her up EVERY TIME with always 15 minutes early before and after her shift. They ended up getting into a lot of trouble doing that. Which made no sense since this was a dental office that was making a TON of money and the two dentists that ran the practice would only work two days a week and then hand it off to their partner for the other days. They alternated constantly and would go up with their families to their hunting cabins or lake spots depending on the time of the year. Then they would go on about: "These lazy employees are draining our budgets." Yeah.

Yeah, I can believe Johnny being Prom King. Stuff like that has been going on for years. Like when someone runs for a school officer position as a joke and then they win as a result and then can't do the roll and are: "Well, I never thought I seriously get it."

I love Kyle MacLachlan as an actor, but Trey was a mess. From the character to his mother. They were not only cliche, but as Kyle basically told the writers: "Where do you think this is funny?" You know you see that with shows so much after they have ended and get these behind the scenes talk years later. So many shows have talked about jokes by the writers that the actors have questioned it and I know there was some times on shows like Two and a Half Men or The Middle where they said: "It's funny to us, do your job!"

Oh JTP can stay on as long as possible. Love those guys. I just feel Johnny Atkins has served his purpose on Goldbergs. We know where he is going to end up and in real life that is what happened to him. He basically blamed everyone for what went wrong in life and ended up the school janitor. David Kim is either a hit or miss the past two years. Many times he is on track, but when is off track like here in the prom episode. Where he talked about popularity and no one corrected him going: "But she asked Adam to the prom, not the other way around." He and Johnny should have been: "Wait, you are right." Prom dress comments, spot on.

Luckily we really only got a couple of seasons of him. Then didn't see them until the final season. I know it had to do more with the actors doing other work with That 70s Show and CBS. I just felt when they brought in Frank Sr it add NOTHING for Phoebe. Basically you got a guy who somehow got himself through pharmacy school. Could just disappear when he wanted to. Keep his job and then magically get information from people and show up out of the blue. His excuse: "You kids hated me." Considering his twins were barely 1 and his son was 9 later on.

I have to agree, if any of the tertiary characters that I was happy when we didn't see them anymore was Ross's ex wife and her partner. By the end of the series I was like: "Why keep them on, you don't even show Ben anymore?"

Having Fred dead now makes his final episode not only more tragic, but also shows being robbed as his grand children were NOWHERE in the episode. Not to mention his great grandchildren. The show really screwed that up. We got a great moment with Phil, remembering all the great times and so forth. However, as Sarah and Ariele put it in post show interviews. "We were his grandchildren and yet we are not in his final episode, you think that would have been important."

They really have taken Erica off of reality since last season. In fact, she is so far removed from the "real" ERIC Goldberg it doesn't even pretend to match up. Honestly, Geoff should just make a run for it and count his loses. They seemed to want to move Erica to start being like Bev more, but Erica just comes off as angry all the time and removed from trying to care or can't seem to even bring herself there.

Alex's background didn't start being exposed until episode 2 of season 2. Where Alex starts talking to a patient about abuse from an alcoholic father. He would go on talking about it from there until about season 5, when we finally met his brother and learned more about his mother's schizophrenia and constant talk about protecting his sister (who we NEVER met during the series). Even though the brother ended up having schizophrenia and then his father showing up and dying and FINALLY meeting his mother last season.

Honestly, outside of Chandler I believe all the Friends did rotten things in the course of the series. I mean how could they not, it was on a decade? I just don't like where they took Ross in the last few years of the show. They were also trying to really PUSH Ross and Rachel ending up together. Especially after Emma was born, if anything you get Joey's feelings towards Rachel during the pregnancy. However, afterwards after Emma, he was more of "Fun Uncle Joey" than really being any true positive role model or father figure to her. Ross filled that out fine. If anything, season 9 should have been Ross and Rachel falling back in love and ended season 10 with them getting married, Chandler and Monica moving, Phoebe marrying and Joey leaving for LA. Would have felt all well rounded. Season 10 had a great focus on Phoebe and Chandler and Monica. However, they kept spinning with everyone else. Then it was: "hey remember the guy that basically caused Ross and Rachel's break up, let's have him come back and be the reason how we get the last four episodes to finish. That felt so rushed by then and hell even how Rachel lost her job was stupid. She could have just told Brent Spinner: "That's my current boss over there, can we do this another time?" Of course all shows from 2002-2008 were OBSESSED with tying France into the last episodes from Friends to Sex in the City. I remember a few articles around 2010 about TV shows the first decade of the 21st century going: "Why were so many shows and movies obsessed with France?"

Yes on both, as Bailey pointed out, people knew who Mark was and his reputation. Plus, in the early days they were playing it like news either traveled as the speed of light or everyone was: "Oh what? We don't talk about that stuff." Plus, Alex had pretty much established himself early on what he was like at the hospital. Yes, a doctor who knew his stuff, but was more of a "sleep with them" and then stop when it meant having more meaning in the relationship. Of course that was always planned that Alex had more to him. Of course we also were to think early on too that other doctors wanted positions like chief of surgery or head of departments ASAP once they found out someone might be sick or losing their "edge" when really that never came up. Even when Richard felt threaten by Dereck he was making a lot of mistakes by then. Plus since the show has been on, the different chiefs have had the positions in a realistic manner. We are to believe that Richard was chief for almost 20 years when statistically the most last chief of any department lasts is a decade and that counts for two main reasons: 1. They are DAMN good at it. 2. No one else wants the job. Plus, Grey's has constantly acted like the Chief of Surgery was the be all, end all position and that really in 20 years, and all the characters we met even in flashbacks the past 3 years, how Richard Webber was just so DAMN GOOD he had the job for almost two decades. When everyone else on the show from Derek to Bailey have had the position a few years, which is more realistic.

The wife and I were watching the end of season 1 this weekend since there isn't really anything left on TV now and we are trying to avoid too much streaming time as an example to our son. I have to say you see how things changed by the end of season 1 into season 2, but also how there were really NO well thought out ideas. Richard's tumor originally him worrying about the hospital board telling him to step down as chief and that "the vultures will be circling for my job". Turned to be crap when it was really Adele he was most worried about. Even more the fact when she does appear, how he ever THOUGHT he could hide being away from the house up to three days. Even how both Derrick and Meredith were: "If something went wrong, she is your wife, why wouldn't we contact her?" Even Baily's reaction was: "You have one seriously screwed up marriage." You see how far Alex came, but seeing "siph nurse" who showed back up this past year and how she was mad at Alex and calling out to Jo about their "past relationship" just painted it out more of: "The actress needs work remember her story from 15 years ago? Let's throw her in for no apparent reason." Heather, as he name was, just is painted as a idiot and even the "Safe sex" scene after George's condition was spread through the hospital was really ridiculous. Yes, I get it they all act like 13 year olds with crazy hormones at the hospital. However, you get Richard with the distaste in his voice: "Come on these are doctors in their late 20s early 30s, they don't need to be treated like this is Sex Ed 101." Seattle Grace really had some very stupid board members off camera even back then. No wonder they screwed up the hospital.

Lots of shows don't know what the plan is. If they have been cancelled, the decision was made before the episodes aired. Others are trying to get an idea of how the new seasons will start, most are meeting in online meetings in June and July and going from there. I know Supernatural just announced they never finished the last 6 episodes of the FINAL season. So, they are going to film where there just need to be 4 people at at time including filming crews and then do the major scenes when they can.

Plus she apparently was a popular girl so really not buying it. Her friends would have talked.

Right as both Amelia and Kornvac discovered that the original injury from season 2 caused nerve damage to not only his leg but up to his back and why he was having spells that turned into full blown episodes and needed the drugs to kill the pain.

That's been the problem with Pac North since day 1. They are all morons running an even sadder hospital. They had, and yes this is all real: doctors who don't know how to take pulses correctly, nurses who constantly break down in tears going "what did I do wrong?". Surgical nurses who let patients get worst during surgery and then when things go south they say: "You didn't ask if everything is fine, we are already asked first." They had these HUGE story of Richard, Owen and Alex turning the hospital around. Then Katherine bought it out of spite to Richard and then had everyone re-interview for their jobs (apparently still not firing the morons working at the hospital). Now we see it was turned also as part of a research hospital under the Fox label and what do we get? Doctors leaving patients to die and apparently some jealous doctor/nurse who can magically create time bombs and leave them in the hospital without anyone going: "Hey, that doesn't look like medical equipment."

They also had Emmett taking his father getting arrested over things to easily too. Like: "That serves you right for making me change majors in high school so you could have a political person in Seattle." Which still never made sense since they had Dixon one minute hate the bureaucratic crap to the next doing behind closed doors deals. Only thing I see Emmett serving was to show that Travis does want a relationship, but like any other person, it was basically just that. Physical and nothing more. Travis wants to be happy again, but after his last relationship post dead husband. He just didn't feel it and to be truthful, Emmett was a rebound and on top of that a guy who knew he was bi/gay but hid everything. Which was far more devastating since he had a girlfriend for 6 YEARS! Not saying he didn't love her, but if he knew since early college. He had PLENTY of time to just tell her: "Sorry, but I don't see us marrying." I'm also betting the bombs was another doctor who was probably jealous or felt their research was stolen by the other doctor. Then again, like I said, much easier to bomb the MAIN lab than set off two other bombs in the hospital. If they were so smart on timers, then they would have had them ALL go off at once. Unless it was some warp idea that it would allow people to get out and the bombs were screwed up in which went off first. Then again, if you can magically sneak home made bombs that have defiant timers, you can have them go on ANYWAY you want. Then again, this was to fuel into the Grey's original finale with another bomb going off at Grey Sloan to tie into the bombing wasn't only random, but also that it was a vendetta. Which also paints the picture it was another doctor/nurse to pull all that off.

While CBS keeps shows on WAY past expiration date.

I'm calling it now that Andy's mother has schizophrenia and the best decision was to have it where she apparently "died". Trying not to ruin the image that "everyone was perfect". Ok, so a person who can apparently make time bombs and place them in specific places in a hospital. DOESN'T have the first one go off in the MAIN LAB first? Plus, good to know that Pac North even under Katherine Fox still are a bunch of idiots who ran instead of helping their fellow staff and just got the hell out of dodge. Yet, this season all way back to season 1 of the sky rise building, people just stood there with: "Oh... look... fire!" Plus, those were pretty big bombs to just sneak into the place. Plus, Dean figured it out so fast after finding the bomb. Yet the police didn't go: "Wait, two explosions that are an hour apart? That no gas leak." I see now what the season finale of Grey's was going to be about. The bomber was probably going to destroy the rest of the doctors STEM Cell Work since they were taking it to Grey/Sloan. Since we say Maya going there and showing Teddy and Andy going there "after" she found her long lost mother. Leading to one doctor probably trying to get rid of the bomb before it kills tons of people at Grey/Sloan. Hey I could be a writer for the show. Happy that Maya's father went down, but much like the original story, it was so teleplayed of how much of an abuser. Dixon getting arrested was the best and I'm sure it was meant to be public like that so the Mayor would save face with: "Well, he's chief because he let my son go who went on to kill 5 people in a car accident HE caused." Hey writers, how about you get a new chief who is not only competent, but is not a cardboard cut out villain next season. WHY can't Vic get her own place? Or as mentioned, moved in with Jack.

Oh I know, I don't get that move at all. So happy ratings stayed good and Wednesdays have shown their were more viewers. I just don't get ABC these days. They want to ruin their popular shows by shoving them to times that don't work. The shows they DO want cancel they throw to that time slot and realized it doesn't automatically kill them. They have shows working on Friday and Sundays and yet try to move them around "to see if the audience will follow". Just stop!