No wider implications. I’m just calling all Fox News correspondents exceptional assholes.

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I kept on waiting for Fitz to be the villain and for the show to redeem itself by saying “Yes, of course he’s evil, he was sleeping with a 16 year old student guys!!!” But they.... very much didn’t do that.

I skip 99% of the musical acts because I don’t care about most of them and everybody tends to sound bad on the SNL set anyway. If the host starts singing in the monologue, they get skipped, too. I also skip the annoying blatt-and-tootle cacaphony of the theme noise (not dignifing it as a song). Also, if a sketch just…

Stapleton and Simpson are easily tier 1.

I laughed out loud more during this show than the rest of the season combined (a lot of comedy amuses me more than makes me laugh). Based on that alone I’d have given this episode a solid A.

I know that it is within the realm of Kinja to have an actual commenter grade poll at the end of each of these. Every week I think that same idea. Might even garner more clicks.

I think SNL should nix live music acts in favor of more comedy.

Comedy is subjective and that’s fine of course but these grades straight up don’t make sense to me. I feel like I’d have a better shot at predicting the grade for a given SNL episode if I just threw a dart at a grading curve. It’s sort of bizarre. This was one of the funniest SNL episodes I’ve seen in quite some time.…

That’s definitely a big factor for parents. Sometimes it’s because they have a legitimate concern and sometimes it’s because it’s something they wouldn’t like and they just use Christianity as an excuse to forbid it. Just like they do with gay marriage.

Perhaps there is no actual Good Place, because no-one who is truly good could live with themselves. So they devote their afterlives to the moral improvement of dirtbags. In a way, the Good Place was inside the Bad Place all along?

I’m younger but had similar experiences being the oldest of three. Couldn’t watch Cartoon Network (but Nickelodeon was permitted oddly, and grandpa let us watch just about whatever we wanted); had my Harry Potter books taken because ‘witchcraft’; couldn’t watch PG-13 movies or play t-rated games until I was 13-14…

Given Michael Schur’s sensibilities, I would not be surprised if The Good Place ended up being Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani finding a way to be fully at peace with themselves, that there was no actual Heaven or Hell, and that The Bad Place was simply a somewhat deceptive motivational tool for people to figure out…

>by the time my younger siblings came around, Mom and Dad stopped making a big deal about that sort of stuff.

My parents were crazy restrictive about what I could and could not play/watch/listen to/read in our house. I still remember asking them if I could get Legend of Zelda for SNES one time, and they flipped out because “it promotes witchcraft.” To this day, they justify their restrictiveness because “you got to play it…

I grew up in a conservative Christian household, so there were lots and lots of things that I wasn’t allowed to watch. I couldn’t watch the Thunder Cats or the Smurfs or He-Man because they contained magic. Disney movies were okay for some reason though. The aforementioned Carmen was definitely okay. I still have…

I was forbidden from playing Dungeons & Dragons because it apparently encouraged children to worship the devil.

I think it’s been established that time works differently here. The Bad Place people are still waiting on Joe Francis.

This is taking place centuries from now (or perhaps outside of time) but they keep referencing TV shows from now. I guess that makes sense since we’re in the golden age of television.

They all were properly allocated to the Bad Place according to current rules. The judge took their case only because she was bored and because she loved Tahani’s accent (and proper pronunciation of aluminium). And they did fail their tests (well most of them) but those test have also shown they did all change and…