Usually Dexter wraps everything up from the season in a neat little bow. The season's villain chopped up and dumped in the water, and Dexter going back to his life. A little cliff hanger yes, but nothing like this. No Dexter season has ever ended with something as "shocking" , as you say, as this. The headline could have read "Jennifer Carpenter" discusses the season finale". It didn't have to talk about something so shocking as to cause you to have your therapist on speed dial. When Dexter arrives back home, in my head I was saying "Okay, where is the shocking surprise, did I miss something, oh wait, Rita must be dead." Instead, I would have been thinking "What a great episode, I can't wait for next year... Oh no, not Rita... no, no, no!!!" The headline put something extra into the my viewing experience that didn't need to be there. If I wasn't waiting for the shocking surprise, it would have surprised me, instead I was expecting it. Not every season finale ends with a shocking cliff hanger, but those that do, try to lull you into a false sense of security and then spring it on you. That's what Dexter tried to do, but since I knew a shocking ending was coming, I couldn't play along and I missed out on the shock.

Oh, come on, people. You sound like a bunch of yes-men. The Bath Item Gift Hypothesis was way, way funnier than this one. Relying on negative, snide "humor" is cheap - and gets old very fast. If Baranski's character said one more thing about someone's penis, I was ready to take this show off my DVR forever. How unimaginative to have nothing funny to say except crude sex jokes and, of course, people of the same sex can't pooosssibly be friends unless they're gay. I told everyone I know to start watching this show after 'Bath Item.' Now I'm embarrassed I did, because apparently the writers have run out of jokes.

The only funny line in this piece of detritus was Sheldon's wish to be in a Star Trek shuttle landing on a planet, etc.

I thought the show was hilarious. Christine Baranski definitely needs to guest on the show more often! The only thing that really stuck out to me as unfunny were the falalalas.

I LOVED this episode. I couldn't catch my breath because I was laughing so much. However, I agree about previews ruining funny/shocking parts of shows. I hate hate hate when you see something funny in a commercial, or "on this episode of ...." The worst was that this site, TV Squad, ruined the finale of Dexter with the headline "Jennifer Carpenter says to put your therapist on speed dial for Dexter season finale" The whole time I'm waiting for "shocking suprise" and when it came it wasn't a shock because I knew something horrible was going to happen. I HATE you TV Squad. I feel robbed of one of the best tv show surprises ever. If you tell someone there is a shocking surprise, then it isn't a surprise anymore.

Is this the second straight episode Raj didn't talk at all?

That was geat episode i loved Leonard's Mom asking Leonard why he didn't tell her he was tapping her home girl Penny. and as much as the Kiss was hilarious it would have been much funnier had it not been in the promo for the episode during two and a half men, I i eve meet someone from the promo department at CBS i'm gonna kick them in the shins.

I love her. "Yikes." The look on Sheldon's face after the kiss was priceless. Shock, and bewilderment. Perfect that there were no words after it. No wonder Leonard gets along so well with Sheldon; he grew up with that behavior. And i don't think Howard and Raj are gay. When two women are that close, no one says they are gay. Why is it that people automatically say that guys who are good friends are gay? And I'm not stupid. My son is gay. My brother is gay. Some people are JUST FRIENDS.

you know what I love about this episode? Penny seems relaxed to the weirdness. The boys odd folks are just odd folks.

Yeah. I gotta put a sticker over that.