In a book written by Alan Sepinwall that examined the series, Sepinwall noted that " Schwartz spends enough of his day trolling message boards to know exactly what fans are complaining about and which references to other shows and movies they've caught, and he incorporates it into his scripts.

The show placed No. 88 on Entertainment Weekly " New TV Classics " list, and was named by Alan Sepinwall of Hitfix. com as one of the 10 best shows in Fox network history.

Alan Sepinwall included the show in his " Best of the 00s in Comedies " list, saying: " It got on the air thanks in part to a coalition of advertisers looking for family-friendly programming, and " Gilmore " offered up an unconventional but enormously appealing family: mom Lorelai Gilmore ( Lauren Graham ) and teen daughter Rory ( Alexis Bledel, so close in age that they often seemed more like sisters, plus the wealthy parents ( Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann ) Lorelai split from after getting pregnant at 16.

" Alan Sepinwall in The Star-Ledger calls it a " magnificently daring episode ", explaining "( w ) hat makes it particularly brave is that, even when Buffy has been failing to click dramatically this year, the show has still been able to get by on the witty dialogue, which is all but absent after the first few scenes.

" Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz of The Star-Ledger listed " Like Father, Like Clown " as one of the ten episodes of The Simpsons that shows the " comic and emotional scope of the show.

" In 2012, HitFix's Alan Sepinwall cited the episode as his favorite of the show, writing that it " captures everything that was and is great about the series: social satire, extraordinary quotability (' This Things I Believe '), a good family story, and an innate sweetness in spite of Homer's outsized antics.

Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz of The Star-Ledger described the episode as " hilarious ," however they noted that the episode's " suggestion that Moses parted the Red Sea by having all the Israelites flush their toilets at once " could result in a backlash from the " religious right.

* Two 1998 articles from Tim Goodman San Francisco Examiner and Alan Sepinwall New Jersey Star-Ledger as listed on Rob Thomas ’ s Site.

Alan Sepinwall, television journalist with The Star-Ledger, said many of the episodes seemed rehashed and predictable, especially those targeting Michael Jackson and children's beauty pageants.

Alan Sepinwall, television columnist for The Star-Ledger, said the Cragen character " showed off more personality " in the film Exiled and on Special Victims Unit than the character exhibited in the original Law & Order.

Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz of The Star-Ledger thought it was " terrific, especially the vote for kindergarten class president, and the recount-recount-recount bit.

The Stat-Legends Alan Sepinwall calls Susan's character arc in season five the " least annoying storyline she's had in at least three years ".

Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz of The Star-Ledger were complimentary towards " Grace, Replaced ", writing that the episode " is a winner, packed with witty dialogue.

In a 2006 article in The Star-Ledger, Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz cite the episode when asserting that the quality of The Simpsons " gets much spottier " in season nine.

Alan Sepinwall observes in another Star-Ledger article, " episode was so implausible that even the characters were disavowing it by the end of the episode.

" Alan Sepinwall of The Star Ledger, in a review printed two days after the episode originally aired, praised the writers for not airing a " very special " episode to celebrate the milestone of overtaking The Flintstones.

However, Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger was unimpressed and does not find Kate to be a compelling character.

" Alan Sepinwall wrote positively of the episode in The Star-Ledger, citing the Canyonero sequence as " the real reason to watch " the episode and that " It's an oversize vehicle that will create oversized laughs.

Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger called the episode " a brilliant skewering " of political correctness and oversensitivity, and called it " at once hilariously satiric and extraordinarily foul.

`` On trial in Jakarta for having flown for the Indonesian anti-Communist insurgents, U.S. pilot Alan Lawrence Pope boldly told the court that in supporting the freedom fighters, he was actually defending the sovereignty and independence of Indonesia.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

In 2010 Eye to Eye: Alan Parsons Project Live in Madrid was released on CD.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

Alan ’ s philosophy was a sort of mixture of Aristotelian logic and Neoplatonic philosophy.

In his third theological textbook, Regulae Caelestis Iuris, he presents a set of what seems to be theological rules ; this was typical of the followers of Gilbert of Poitiers, of which Alan could be associated.

Alan of Lille was not the author of a Memoriale rerum difficilium, published under his name, nor of Moralium dogma philosophorum, nor of the satirical Apocalypse of Golias once attributed to him ; and it is exceedingly doubtful whether the Dicta Alani de lapide philosophico really issued from his pen.

Alan Ayckbourn said that his relationship with Christine became easy once they agreed their marriage was over.

One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.

Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Alan Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble.

The team had posted 3 podiums and was operated by Alan Docking Racing.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

This topic was further developed in the 1930s by Alonso Church and Alan Turing, who on the one hand gave two independent but equivalent definitions of computability, and on the other gave concrete examples for undecidable questions.

Alan Jay Lerner ( August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986 ) was an American lyricist and librettist.

Alan Jay Lerner was educated at Bedales School in England, The Choate School ( now Choate Rosemary Hall ) in Wallingford, Connecticut, ( where he wrote " The Choate Marching Song ") and Harvard.

Some observers speculate that Alan Jay Lerner's pride was so badly bruised by Muselli's much-publicized rejection of him ( due to his drug addiction and neglect of their son ) that in revenge he portrayed her as a gold-digging spendthrift.

Alan Jay Lerner's pattern of financial mismanagement continued until his death from cancer in 1986, when he reportedly owed the US Internal Revenue Service over US $ 1, 000, 000 in back taxes, and was unable to pay for his final medical expenses.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.