My daughter had braces for over 3 years. We began to think that the orthodontist was going for some kind of record.

Ted is underrated on HIMYM. Also, the premise is going to get shaky if they go on too long after he does meet The Mother, so I'll assume you're joking about giving up on his finding anyone.

I like Rose Byrne, but she's clearly a lightweight compared to the rest of the Damages cast. Not least because she looks like a stiff breeze would break her in half. Girl really needs to eat some cheeseburgers.

Plus, I thought the point of the show was seeing her slowly learn to play the manipulation game as well as Patty, but she's pretty much already there. So I have to agree: what's left to do with her?

Wow. The person who writes these hates Meredith Grey and has every time she writes something. It would be nice to have a different writer for this just for a different perspective. Most fans of the show like Meredith!

"who has braces for three years?"

I had braces for six years. unimaginable, I know. It was torturous.

The Hills was relevant at some point?

I'm with you regarding Meredith, I love the show but I'll just be glad when they get over the McD/Grey relationship drama. NEXT!

And Betty, don't Mode offer a Dental Plan?

Dwight Schrute is not the main character of The Office, though. At best, I'd say it was Michael, but even then...plus, he helps make the show, so it would take a lot from The Office to remove Dwight Schrute.

I don't even watch Ugly Betty, but I do have to defend the braces thing, as I had the misfortune of being in brace from 2nd grade to my sophmore year of high school. There were occasional breaks from them, but for the most part, they were on. It was horrible.

And I love Ted and would sorely miss him if he wasn't on the show.

Agree about Meredith. What a whiner. Disagree about Sean, he's a necessary contrast to Christian. Those two need each other too much for the show to work without him. Also they are my OTP.

Reaper -- Sam is annoying and whiney. Love Sock and Ben, though. Not sure why the writers are giving the side kicks the better personalities but I watch that show for them and the devil :)

Ivanka runnin The Apprentice?... BRILLIANT! The Khloe firing was downright offensive, T-Boz was a star and class act and yet Joan calling Annie Hitler, Brande's ineptitude, the morn cowboy, the loser biker, etc. Time to givethe better looking Trump a chance.

I had them for seven.

I love How I Met Your Mother, but it seems so un-focused this year. Like what exactly are they working toward? Each season has a little something going on pushing you to the end (like a wedding or a break up or a hook up.) I mean, if they are leading us to a Robin/Barney thing, I guess that is cool but they should maybe do more than just dedicated one second per episode to Angsty love sick Barney.

Maybe the Hannigan baby thing messed up the shows Mojo. I'm willing to accep that. But I agree in a way, I'm just not invested in what is happening with Ted, where as in previous seasons I was. I was like "oh, Ted and Robin" or "Oh, let's see how Ted doesn't end up married to the girl from scrubs" (I'm forgetting her name.

I also agree with Private Practice. Well, I really just think Addison should go back to Greys. Mainly b/c she made Greys awesome, but the show isn't anything without her, and they obviously a terrible idea for her to have her own show.

I love this site, and have never commented on one thing, but it's really stupid to say something like "who has braces for three years?" There's actually a shitload of people who do. Go do some research.

For some reason this comment really bothers me. It just sounds so dumb. It almost dismisses the rest of the article.

Lost without Jack and Kate, please?

Oh,no,only if they first take an assault rifle and empty it into that annoying Izzie,then set her on fire and then remove all traces of her from the "universe" ... Only then they can pronounce it D_E_A_D

That's true. But I think it has more to do with Female characters on TV not really being written to a very high standard. That has long been a problem. Women on TV tend to be extreme... one way or another. (Either a man eating man hater, or a boy crazy annoying whiner.)Even if you take a strong female character like Veronica Mars, Buffy (maybe), Starbuck (or Roslin or Six) they seem to be loved and hated for the exact same reasons.

I think male writers do good with female characters to a certain degree, then they just kinda get extreme somewhere along the way or they lose that original spark. That is why I liked Loreli, Rory and Emily from Gilmore Girls so much. Because it was three different believable female characters, written mostly from a female POV (Amy Sherman-Palladino) and they all had strenghts and weakness and it seemed pretty consistant throughout the seasons (until she left the last season...which I pretend doesn't actualy exist)

This is just someone's opinion about TV shows. Shees.

The problem I have with Sean is that he repeats the same bad behavior over and over but never learns from it, and never gives Christian any credit when he does something good, but is ready to 100% believe when he's done something really bad. Where's all this "standing by your man" y'all talk about?

Jack and Kate from LOST. Death by polar bear and DHARMA shark respectively.

Agree with everyone except for Addison. I love her character. In PrP she's trying to find her footing after the demise of her marriage so its understandable that she's not the AWESOMENESS that she was in Grey's. Actually like you said transfer Meredith to a different hospital and bring back Addison to Grey's.

Yes, Betty needs to change her style. In the original telenovela Betty did get a makeover. She kept her braces (telenovelas have endings) but the makeover was a key to the story line... and frankly people tuned in to see the transformation. I'm well past waiting for Betty to change.

Not that it's really an issue with such low ratings, but I'll take Claire McCrae (Sarah Paulson) out from the new "Cupid". Although Ted is wearing a bit thin on "How I Met Your Mother" these days... maybe he eventually gets likable again, since he supposedly does find a mother for those two kids and all.

Sebastian Bach existed loooong before Gilmore Girls and was always awesome...this person needs to stop blogging. She always gets her facts wrong!

I agree with the writer about Betty. Seriously,she's never heard of Invisilign? How about the fact that she has access to Christina and the fashion closet and still looks like she fell off the immigrant bus from hell!

Also, I only had braces for a year and a few months. It never would have occurred to me that a person would have them for longer than that. I certainly never knew that person and everyone at my school had braces at some point.

Vanessa from Gossip Girl. PLEASE.

It may very well be "easier" to move baby teeth than adult teeth, but it also takes much, MUCH longer to do so, if for no other reason than the fact that the poor kid has to wear them throughout the loss of their baby teeth.

The shame of it is that it really doesn't take that long to move adult teeth, especially in adolescents.

Unless her mouth originally resembled a shark's, NO WAY should Betty (as an adult) STILL have them on after three years.

13 should have been the one to commit suicide on House. There's a pretty large consensus that she's not liked.

Also, Mohinder on Heroes can go too. His story stopped being interesting long ago.

Jack Bauer on 24 and Jack on Lost. Both are annoying jackasses. I actually love Ted on HIMYM, yeah he's a douche, but its in a good way. He's a lovable douche! And Dwight isn't really the title character. That would probably be Michael. And I'm all for that. His annoyingness has never been funny to me.

Yet another person who had braces for several years. In my case it was six.

You are so right. I haven't watched this show in years because Jack is nothing more than a narcissistic thug. The only thing he is good at is using women and beating up suspects. And now that he's involved with Sam? Yeccch.

I can tolerate Meredith. She acts pretty much like someone with her upbringing and dysfunction would. Bailey, Cristina, Owen, and Karev have real adult problems that they are struggling with and generally behave like grown ups. I really don't like the Mc's, with their need to be involved with much younger women who they can patronize and who make them feel more godlike.

People do have braces for years and years. But have you ever noticed that Betty's teeth seem to be perfect? And in my experience, upwardly mobile people from disadvantaged backgrounds are experts at fitting in, not standing out.

13 from House. She's completely ruined the last two seasons. Foreman should go along with her.

I totally agree with several responses of Ted being awesome. Plus, if you remove Ted you have to consider a couple of things that would almost necessarily need to change about the show. The first is that we would also lose future Ted. The second would be that the BRomance would have to come to an end, since I don't think any sitcom of this nature has ever had or could exist with a cast that had no single people. For Barney to become the lead, he would have to go back to full-time womanizer. That would destroy all the set-up for him being a closet romantic who doesn't want to stay in a relationship to protect himself from another heartbreak.

My brother actually had braces for 6 years. So, 3 years doesn't seem wholly unrealistic to me. Of course, he had a very unusual case so they are probably asking you to suspend a little too much disbelief.

As for Meredith, she has always been my least favorite character. Recently, however, I have been finding her a little more tolerable, but maybe it's more apathy than anything. I'm not really sure, but I no longer wish for her character to die every episode. If we can dream big, though, let's have Meredith die in some tragic way and bring Addison back to Seattle Grace and it can be Addison's Anatomy. I'd watch that, so long as they brought back pre-Private Practice Addison. :)

Meredith is the main character on Grey's? I thought it was Izzie. They need to get rid of Izzie.

Cuddy. She has become one-note and that note is pathetic.

Um, Meredith is the most realistic and fully realized person on Grey's Anatomy; Ellen Pompeo is an irrefutably phenomenal actress; and we all know that if this was a male character, we'd just be calling him a "complicated antihero" instead of attributing cliched female characteristics to her like whiny and annoying (House, anyone? Whose character, by the way, I also enjoy). Anyone who wants her killed off just has residual hatred for her from the first two or so seasons, and hasn't been watching this season (or the entire series, really) very closely. She's obviously matured a lot and has dealt with a lot of Derek's crap in a very capable and poised manner. Ellen Pompeo has managed to NEVER be corny and cheesy no matter what lines she's given, which is quite a feat for a show like Grey's Anatomy...she's also always delivered more nuance even in simple reaction shots than most actors can muster in their entire careers.
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It'a true about Betty. I'm the same build as her and don't care about fashion, but I know enough to buy a couple of simple black dresses or something if I started working there.

Sarah Connor has her moments, but most of the time I just wish she would get out of the way so that I could watch John, Cameron and Derek be awesome.

And that is not human Cameron in the end of BtR, it's Allison, who isn't Cameron at all.

Am I the only one who can't stand Cameron on House? If I see another minute of her moral-superiority whining, I'll probably, like, explode.

I like Chase better than Cameron, and that's saying something.

I like Ted. Not when he's being super-pretentious (although sometimes it's funny) or douchey (although I love that his friends are such good friends that they call him on it whenever he does behave that way), but the thing about Ted is ... he's necessary because he grounds all the other characters.

It's like if you took Will & Grace away, leaving Jack & Karen. Yes, Jack and Karen are hysterically funny, but by themselves their childish antics might (and sometimes did) get old fast. You need other characters for them to play off of, in the way Ted sets up the joke and Barney knocks it out of the park.

And as others have pointed out, sometimes Ted is wonderfully funny on his own. Two of my favorite HIMYM episodes of all time center on Ted's character: the Pineapple Incident (come on, when drunk Ted climbs up on that table and starts singing along with the jukebox, I laugh every time) and the Third Wheel (his look of wonder as he enters the bedroom where those girls are waiting for him is a fascinating moment to behold and Josh played it just beautifully).

I've noticed the difference with Lily being gone (as Alyson Hannigan took leave to have her baby), and I know I'd mourn the empty space left if Ted weren't there, as well.

Seriously, they either need to kill Annie off or send her to London post haste. The show went very wrong in trying to recast the original characters. I get that there are certain people who are universal (I did after all go to high school) but lets get into who the characters really are and let them develop as people the way the original one did. I would be very happy for Annie to turn out to be the Andrea of the group and let Silver and Adriana take the Kelly/Brenda roles to town. Naomi needs to move out of the zip code, I mean i get that she's supposed to do the slut turned girlfriend role, but come on! I want more Navid/Dixon/Ozzie surfing and hanging out, more Silver/ Adriana/ Annie time in whic Silver and Adriana remond Annie what real problems are. And bring back Rhonda!!!!

TWOP is all about making snarky comments about TV shows and their (often annoying) characters, main or otherwise. If you're looking for squeeing fangirlism, go somplace else. After all, this site is called Television WITHOUT Pity, not Television OMG Meredith Grey is my BFF!!!111!!!.

Hey, How right you are, Addison is ridiculous.......who dresses like that as an MD?

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