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I knew they would break up Titus and Mikey because they couldn't move in together, since Titus has to stay in the apartment with Kimmy for TV reasons...but I really hate it. :( I hated this plot when it was Dana's Dating Plan on "Sports Night" (or to a lesser degree, when Will made over Dan Futterman and helped him come out, only to have him want to play the field). Yeah, it's realistic and maybe Mikey needs more experience, but realism isn't what I'm watching this show for, and TV has taught me it's not going to end well. Depressing. On a better note, I'd heard of Daveed Diggs but never seen him in anything. Damn, he is FINE. More please.

Pete Hornberger AND Gaylord Felcher in the same episode! Loving it.

I believe it's considered groundbreaking because it's apparently the most explicit sex scene between two men in a mainstream TV series in the US. I would consider some scenes in QaF and Looking to be more explicit than this, but those were shows primarily made for a gay audience. This show isn't. That said, Omid Abtahi was involved in some of my favorite gay sex scenes on TV in Sleeper Cell 10 years ago, and while there wasn't any full frontal there, the scenes were smoking hot. Bryan Fuller discusses having to reshoot the scene because it wasn't gay enough the first time. (Interesting that both actors and the director are all straight, and the actual acts were unscripted. Like, didn't Fuller consider maybe it would be necessary to have someone on set who'd actually had gay sex to tell them what to do while filming it?)

If you had a seemingly (and until recently) asexual friend, you wouldn't remember the only woman prior to his current girlfriend who he seemed to have any kind of relationship with, however brief, the one who first made you question, "What's his deal?" Different strokes and all, but I'd find that pretty memorable.

Good episode, though it was a little annoying that Penny acted like she didn't know what Ramona looked like. After all, they're "Sisters?" (offered pinky) That was such a great episode. If they're going to do callbacks, they can certainly do worse. The group march down the stairs was hilarious. The show still is still capable of inspired moments. Lovely ending. Hooray!

Opposite reactions to these two: I disliked the first episode a lot, with the exception of the Scully plot. I liked the second episode a lot, with the exception of Gina being an asshole. The first one felt too much like all those early episodes where Jake refused to listen to anything Holt said and generally acted like a jackass. While some of the details of what went down were funny (Jake getting shot in the chest by the rocket), Hangover-type stories feel like they've been done to death at this point (especially with the damn photographs), and when they decided to throw a party when Holt specifically requested they not do anything, I just thought they were being jerks. Feh. While it was nice that they went to the thermometer museum with him, I was kind of hoping for some revenge on Evil Andy Daly. The second episode was much better. I'm glad they aired two so it could wash out the bad taste left by the first.

"The Long Distance Dissonance"- The gang is concerned when Sheldon's former admirer, Dr. Ramona Nowitzki (Riki Lindhome), resurfaces while Amy is away at Princeton, on the 10th season finale of THE BIG BANG THEORY, Thursday, May 11 (8:00-8:31 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Damn. When this show is good, it's good. Some very funny stuff, but also gut-wrenching dramatic material, exactly the show's sweet spot. (Although there were a few moments when I thought Faris's performance could, or should, have been stronger.) I guess the ending was probably as much satisfaction as Christy could realistically get in those circumstances ...but it's hard not to wish she'd let Bonnie start punching people. Much better episode than the last one. This show is so underrated.

Finale spoiler: Geez, they really are digging into the past with this one. But why would the gang be concerned when he wasn't even interested in her?

Fact-Checking Feud: How Bette Davis Got Revenge on Joan Crawford for That Stolen Oscar

I wish I enjoyed it as much as everyone else seems to have, but as great as it was to see the characters again, the episode felt off--way too over-the-top and hyperactive, as though all the writers and actors were pounding energy drinks 24/7 during its production. I just checked the writing credits, and wasn't surprised to find this was the writer's first credited script for the show. It felt like it. There was a lot of funny stuff, but most of it felt like the show was dialed up about 200%, to the point where it was really shrill. Charles dousing his kid with wolf pee and getting stuck in the vent wearing the cat suit, and they were just going to leave him there for several days... Sigh. Holt chiming in that Amy should have kept it in her pants? Yeah...not seeing it. Way too out of character. And yet another enemy who's out to destroy them? Double sigh. I rewatched the first half of the season multiple times over the hiatus, but this one just made me cringe. A lot.

Interesting story from Vulture about how the feud between Diesel and the Rock seems to have affected the movie and is apparent onscreen.

We already saw this plot when Raj dated the deaf girl who was only interested in him for his money. It wasn't that great the first time (though better than this), and there really wasn't anything added that made it worth seeing again.

She showed up briefly on Mom, in a tiny role that wasn't all that different from the Two and a Half Men one, though less annoying (because she had less to do). Pretty sure she had the same voice then.

Fact-Checking Feud: Joan Crawford’s Rumored “Stag Film” and Her Sellout Brother

Finally caught up with this week's episode. LOOOOOOOOOOVED it. I really think it may be my favorite show airing right now, and this episode was one of the best. Plus, Anna Faris was on fire in the scene with Bonnie and her brother. I don't think she gets nearly enough credit on this show, where Janney gets all the accolades, but she's hilarious. Far too underrated. At first I thought that was the same cemetery Christy took Violet to where she claimed Violet's father was buried (I'm too lazy to go back and check that episode to confirm), and thought maybe Bonnie was doing the same thing--borrowing someone else's grave to make her speech to her mother. Which wouldn't have really made sense, though it would have explained why the grave was strangely undisturbed.

Especially by Davis herself, who was quoted as saying, "Miss Remick's performance astonished me, and I thought, if I lose the Oscar, it will be to her." (Apologies if they covered it in the episode, but if they did, I missed it.)

Fact-Checking Feud: The Ugly Truth About Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’s 1963 Oscar Showdown

Yep, right after the guy from "Mike and Molly" (I don't know the character's name) threw his fit about how he couldn't figure out what those ever mysterious numbers were! (Of course, he also said they didn't appear on any tax returns...which seems like it really wouldn't be the case, since businesses have to file taxes, right...?)

Vanity Fair's latest fact check: Feud: The Truth About Joan Crawford’s Rocky History with Female Directors I really wish Pauline had been real. Kind of depressing to get invested in a character, only to learn she was one who was made up.

I love this show, and that was a terrifically entertaining episode...but the fact that they didn't consider that was a list of tax-ID numbers was ridiculous. Two digits, then a dash, then seven more. Once you dismiss SSNs, there's an obvious next guess, especially given the placement of the hyphen. Too far-fetched, just to draw out the suspense.