Glee! It's the feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants...

And, now I've watched an episode of Happily Divorced, and that voice has no off switch, no volume control, and yet it's still probably a crime to stuff your socks in her mouth.

Oh--he was good, the script was utterly predictable, and the guy he's acting against is also way better than the material. At least 50% of them are. Rita Moreno, for fuck's sake.

Watched last week's Raising Hope. I would rather have Community and Raising Hope, but at least there is some odd single camera spaghetti-through-line comedy for me to watch right now.

I like how they observed the Sitcom Law of Conservation of Wealth. The ins and the outs and the pawns and the steals and the lies--I was barely holding on there at the end...

It's not so much a show about, you know, raising Hope, but she's still adorable, and the adorablest dressed up as a cherub. I like it when a show earns its sugar-coated ending, even if everyone's testicles aren't okay.

I love-loved the Martha Plimpton reaction shot when she's outside her bedroom--she's cycling through thoughts and emotions, and they're all on her face, but she's out of focus until Dillahunt has finished taking his character through whatever combination of boogers and socks that was that was relatively irrelevant to the week's plot.

Yeah, Raising Hope hits the sap just right for me. That was a very sitcom-y plot when I stop and think about it, but really well done.

Glee is the answer when questions are wrong.

Nora, it s kind of shocking to me when I watch the first few episodes again how much was already there, especially after listening to the commentaries going on about how they hadn't figured stuff out yet.

I love-loved the Martha Plimpton reaction shot when she's outside her bedroom--she's cycling through thoughts and emotions, and they're all on her face

I kind of want to show Emmett the movie version of Parenthood just to mess with his sense of her.

Parenthood is one of my all-time favorites.

I'm still shocked when I hear Martha say, "He said he loved me" and Diane Weist replies, "They all do. And then..."

Whether it was the quality of the actors, the dialogue or the direction, or what, but that movie makes me laugh harder and squirm more emotionally than any other.

Community S4 trailer: [link]

Damn, Community!

Co-worker has a Pandora 80s-90s station going all the damn time, every day, and the Police's "Roxane" just finished playing. It's always been my least favorite Police song, the only one I could take or leave with no feeling at all, but now it's all imbued with the end of... okay, so lots of Buffistas are still getting caught up, so, just, the end of an episode. Thanks to which I'm sitting here at my desk trying not to cry with warm sentimental happiness, because that show has apparently successfully rewired that song into a personal crypoint. THANKS A LOT, SHOW.

But your sharing it has given me a Warm Fuzzy (in re that episode), so that's cool, right?

Or, dare I say...cool, cool, cool

Just re-watched Season 1 "Advanced Criminal Law." First Leonard sighting! Comparison of Chang to Stalin! First Troy & Abed handshake! Nice friendship development between Troy and Abed as well as Jeff and Britta. First snarly fisticuffs between Chang and Professor Duncan! First real involvement of the Dean in the study group! First mention of the Dean going both ways!

I may continue to do this periodically.

My wife had a bad day.

So I made her a martini and we're watching Community.

"Read the banana, Britta."
"I am a lying junkie."