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Yeah, the classroom scene is great, especially the slow oh-shit-I-guess-Tim-probably-did-it realization as he's speechifying even though I hadn't figured out the actual reason Veronica could figure it out. He's so arrogant that he's really pulled off the perfect murder (one-upping Veronica by using her paper but at one level back), he can't help but show off and it gets him caught.

I want this to be something like , if there were such a show as . Your trivia is crazy; I can't believe they actually did that....

(I'm watching on Hulu so I just saw this one.) Agree that this was my favorite of the season so far, but was really disappointed that there was so little Bob Ducca! Jane Levy was really great, though.

I got the perfect score in the general science category once. The problem with this game is that unlike, say, Threes, it takes too much of my attention to do while listening to a podcast or while watching a TV show I don't really care that much about. For me that's a death sentence.

Poor Lamb. You died as you lived: trying to do more or less the right thing but being like 40% competent, 60% moron at it. Liked the scavenger hunt, and even Parker/Logan isn't so bad: they both need something to do, and rebounding to Parker is way better than rebounding to Madison. I had completely forgotten about this Bronson boy, though. This show takes a long time cycling through stories about the supporting characters. Coach story ended well, though it sucks for their family that, like, little brother is probably gonna eventually think that older brother did it. Also: yay insurance fraud!

Yeah, the Logan/Dick storyline is really great; Logan is adorable. We've seen Wallace scenes that Veronica/Keith I think didn't hear about (when his dad showed up)? And obviously side stories like Logan's here. But yeah, I can't think of another time when we really knew something investigation-relevant than Veronica or Keith didn't. Maybe Mac and Beaver in the hotel room in the S2 finale, though that's more just suspense than information. Agree that I don't really care about the mystery very much, though the ending does want me to go watch the next one now.

Two working-class couples let off steam from their jobs in the emergency department of a New York hospital by presenting sketches about race relations to the live audience of their run-down Brooklyn apartment building. (Otherwise, they might have to turn to pills or something to get through the stress of their jobs – and their marriages!) Also, I've been stumped on Ryan's for a while, so here's a complete shot in the dark that almost works: . Otherwise, I guess it's probably something with the part, but....

Yeah, this season has been a lot of pieces moving around without a super-clear overall arc. But: season 3 was that way too, and kind of season 2 (though I haven't watched that one since it aired so maybe I just don't really remember). I'm still really enjoying all that moving around, though, and I think we might just be in a bit of a midseason lull in terms of overall plot before the inevitable Crowder/Crowe blowup plus whatever's coming with Ava.

Yeah, it is interesting how Dick's actions are a million times worse than Madison's but Madison is pure evil while Dick is just kind of adorable. Hester and Nancy Drew as names, huh? Really liked Veronica's hissy fit to get let into the office, also. The mystery as a whole is obviously real upsetting. What an awful friend.

Poor boy. But yeah, well, nothing that great here. (I watched this yesterday when the mobile forums were semi-broken, so whatever further thoughts I had have vanished.)

Yeah, Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project is as great as every CBB fan knew it would be. Haven't listened to today's yet, but I'm pretty excited about it (especially now that I know who the guests are). Also new on Earwolf: U Talkin U2 To Me, with Adam Scott Aukerman. Really made me realize how little I know about early U2 days, but mostly it's just those two goofing around. I'll listen to Adam Scott do anything.

Tara: yep!

Actually, I'll just put it here; no need to email me. It's not going to be super-reliable and please don't hit it too hard – it's just the machine that sits on my desk. (On a university internet connection, though, not some crappy home upload line.) If it gets too much traffic I'll take it down. Subject to void without warning, etc etc. You can: subscribe to the podcast at http://ehg.dougal.me/download.rss – all the links and whatnot are broken, but the descriptions and audio files work, at least in my test on Downcast directly get individual files from http://ehg.dougal.me/episodes/ download the whole thing as a 6GB zip file: http://ehg.dougal.me/extra-hot-great.zip

EricJ's is presumably . I posted this a while ago, but it got lost in the flurry: A single dad and his high-school aged daughter move out of the big city (too many witches!) to a haunted house in a Connecticut suburb.

I have it mirrored on my office computer, which can handle getting it to a few people once in a while but not to a deluge, so I'd rather not post it publicly. Since this forum doesn't seem to have private messaging, shoot me an email to get the link: my name at gmail. (Dave, I'm assuming this is okay?)

Poor Piz.... This is a fun mystery, though it kind of felt strange to not acknowledge the last time Veronica tried to infiltrate an animal rights group. Also, yeah right that they convinced a cosmetics company to stop animal testing with a few letters. The monkey is crazy adorable. I want a monkey now. :/ Really liked the scene in the bar, with Keith trying to work his magic on professor what's-his-name and just getting completely shot down.

I usually don't like in media res openings; I guess this one was okay, and it was necessary to keep the tension up for the initial part of the episode, but eh. Yeah, this one felt like a mini-finale: it was tense but also kind of, well, small. I don't entirely buy Mercer's motives: if he's really just too lazy to want to chat girls up, what's with the shaving of heads? Also, the idea that major donors wouldn't have made their opposition to closing the frats known beforehand is just a little silly. No way would a school like Hearst ban frats so easily. Agree that Logan is right to dump her. She's just not gonna let it work. Okay, so the thing that bugged me about the whole faked rapes stuff: I'm skeptical that people would actually do that. There were already a ton of real rapes; was Claire the only fake one? What point did that even serve other than making the comedy newsletter or whatever look bad? And, basically, the last thing we need in the world is more people assuming rape victims are lying; having it happen on this show is just one more push in that direction. Basically, I just don't think the (presumably unintentional and presumably small) nudge of cultural opinion in the wrong direction was worth the storyline that they got out of it. At least Nish and co weren't the overall villains and there was a real rapist, I guess.

Yeah, didn't love this one. It also leaves the overarching mystery in a weird spot, which I guess I'll see how it goes in a bit. Also: the hell is Veronica doing in terms of Logan. She seemed like she was legitimately understanding and okay with him after their argument, and then doesn't answer his calls? Come on. I liked Dick in this episode, he's done a good job of returning to being a lovable goofball.

Yeah, Veronica is real rough to Keith here. I guess part of it is maybe also that she's spent so much time being on the other side that she's kind of permanently in that mindset. (Good thing Harmony's husband went to Vinnie and not Keith with his suspicions though!) They play the school radio station in the cafeteria? Definitely didn't do that at my school, and it was a good thing too because the people who worked there would have haaaaaated it. The end is very scary – how the hell did they get her? Is it a cafeteria person?? Aaaand time to watch another.

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Yeah, Wallace cheating bugs me too. Did he actually think it was a study guide, or realize it was a study guide wink wink? It was way big of him to drop basketball for the semester to stay in it, though. Loved the dean just completely accepting that Veronica broke into his office to look for an earring. I can't say I particularly like Piz, but so far he doesn't really bother me. We'll see. I think the new credits are growing on me, but that may just be Stockholm syndrome. Then again, I hated the new version of the theme song for The Wire at the start of each season, until it was my favorite at the end of the season.

Yeah, ugh that little girl is awful. She's billed as "Bratty Little Girl" on imdb. I liked that Keith's alias was Adrian Monk, county building inspector. And yes, immediately blaming Weevil was rough - though he did actually steal the money from the fair, which of course was not violent towards her but easily could have (and sort of did) put serious suspicion on her and honestly, isn't *all* that different other than the fake guns....plus he was mad at her for dating Logan. I dunno, I figured it probably wasn't him but being suspicious was not completely unreasonable. I love Veronica's one-man fan club, and how excited he is to help her out on a case.

Czurchry is sooooo punchable. I don't think I've seen him in anything else, but that was my first reaction. I guess I was wrong about the newspaper person being an adult advisor, she's just a student? She seemed older to me, idk. Yep, don't like the Keith storyline. You'd think that would come up more with the number of jilted wives he works for, but I guess this is the first time both sides are interested. This season so far is feeling a little more critical of the stop-raping-people activists than I'm really comfortable with.

Yep, nothing special here but the sorority takeout was fun. Also nice to see Weevil be good at things, sort of. But don't college campuses do, like, background checks on their employees? Liked the little piñata-from-Mexico callback. Logan is a huge dick here with little redeeming value, though, and yeah Veronica is overly cell-phone-tracky but he's being awful to her. (This was the first ep I had never seen; all new to me here on out.)

Agree about Parker (at least the non-spoily bits, because I haven't seen the rest of the season). As to the whole sorority plotline: as a former college journalist, this teacher journalism advisor person (which I guess some school papers have) is horrendous. We would have had a heated debate about whether to publish that story and I hope would not have; this dysfunctional paper just went ahead and did it wih no discussion because that's what the advisor wanted, which is ridiculous and fuck that. I liked Dick and the Pi from last season not buying Veronica at the party, that was fun. The whole Stanford prison experiment thing was silly and would never happen today, but whatever. I feel kind of bad that that was all Samm Levine got, though; his character was pretty boring. Wallace coming through with the trick that showed up the asshole guard was fun - always good to see Wallace being competent.