Rice pudding glowing faces shewed all the benefit of a country run, and seemed to ensure a quick despatch of the roast mutton and rice pudding they were hastening home for". "Rice Pudding" is the title and subject of a poem by A. A. Milne, in which the narrator professes puzzlement as to what is the matter with Mary Jane, who is "crying with all her might and main/And she won't eat her dinner—rice pudding again—/What is the matter with Mary Jane?" T.S. Eliot, in the poem "Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town", writes: "If he looks full of gloom/Then he's lunched
In Which We Meet Mr. Jones Times" thought the episode was "solid if unexceptional", as he liked Walter but disliked the "vacuum of personality" that is Astrid. UGO Networks writer Jon Lachonis stated, "If you were on the fence before, [the episode] will drag you kicking and screaming into the dark world of "Fringe" science wielding bogeymen. "In Which we Meet Mr. Jones" is what "Fringe" promised it would be from the beginning, a suspense driven procedural that probes deep into our technological phobias. With this new formulation of "Fringe", we get the challenge of a sophisticated crime drama mixed with sad sack characters that tempt