Wot, no The Years of Rice and Salt?

The comparission to Community is apt! Never had thought about it.

Let's not talk about Season 4.

Ah. Which is why I didn't type my original comment as such, I did say it gets geek compulsions right.

I will second your first notion. What I like about Community is that all the characters, who are initially presented as stereotypes, have their own little geekish obsessions, whether it be movies, books, philosophies, technology, or life styles. Unlike in many TV portrayals, geek identity is very gray and not clear…

It's a parody of all the things we loved while growing up and at the same time being one of those very TV shows AND about the pains of arrested development among the disappointment of our parents, the shallowness of super science/costumed adventurer/super villainy, which essentially are fandoms and the overall…

Gizmo disagrees with your proclamation of which Christmas movie is greatest.

100% agreed. These sort of wide-implication, non-treatment-specific investigations (much like the Human Genome Project) are scientific inquiries which absolutely should (nay, must) be publicly-funded.

There's been painful decisions every step of the way, my friend...

Not to mention TNG vs Eureka! That's just cruel.