Scandal is set to return for a 4th season, and you're probably just as excited to see Olivia Pope cozy up with Mr. President once more. But beyond unhealthy relationships and the fast-talking on the show, Scandal is actually a very predictable show. So why are we still watching it? Because we love trash-talking Shonda Rhimes in each episode. Here are the 30 things that go through your mind when watching any episode:

1. Only Shonda Rhimes can think of a world where the POTUS is a weak pussy chaser

2. How many times has Olivia's gut been wrong?

3. Someone really needs to get rid of Quinn. Stat.

4. Why does Huck talk the way he does? Weirdly annoying.

5. Oh Shonda Rhimes is so good at making us love shitty writing.

6. Olivia Pope always looks like she's going to cry.

7. Mellie Grant is the wife you really want in real life. Not Olivia Pope.

8. She puts up with all of her husband's bullshit for the better of everything.

9. She doesn't go amok when she finds out he's cheating because she already knows.

10. She took one for the team when Fitz's father sexually assaulted her. She never told him.

11. Why is Fitz such a dick to her?

12. Jake Ballard makes a lousy "Command"

13. Shonda Rhimes couldn't up come with something cooler than the word "Command"

14. Everyone takes really long breaths before saying anything because Shonda Rhimes doesn't like using a comma, or full stop.

15. Charlie must get paid a lot to kiss Quinn.

16. VP Sally Langston sounds like she could be a Christian extremist.

17. Cyrus Beene graduated from Olivia Pope's overreacting class of 2006.

18. Huck can hack, kill, murder, cut you up, and then rationalize it's bad to do all those things and that he doesn't want to anymore.

19. Harrison's colorful clothing doesn't do him any favors.

20. Olivia Pope can fix everything. But first, she'll have to wreck everything with her gut feeling.

21. The POTUS can just visit you at your home and bang you without anyone noticing.

22. Olivia can call the POTUS and get every problem fixed, big or small.

23. The POTUS doesn't have anything else to do but Olivia Pope. All matters of the state are secondary.

24. Apparently, it is that easy to rig an election.

25. Shonda Rhimes recycles her script after every 5 and a half episodes.

26. Olivia has poor judgement on everything.

27. Can a 5 man team really handle so many clients? 

28. Every episode's cliffhanger is expected.

29. But you can't wait for the next one anyway.

30. Shonda Rhimes!