Excellent review!

Loved this episode, because it has such great character inversion. Jess the teacher becomes Schmidt's student, and i think Erik hits the nail on the head with how this episode comments on dating technology reduces human courtship to algorithmic strategic interactions. Given how long they've built up Jess and…

This episode wasn't even Moonvest's debut. Liz gives him a hotdog on the way to work in the pilot (he promptly tosses it back)

"shut up recurring hobos!"

In all seriousness, The Rural Juror might be the funniest episode of season 1 (certainly my favorite running gag in the show's history). I agree the resolution to the liz/jenna plot was a little weak, but their fight was so side-splittingly funny that i can excuse it. A- episode to me.

I'm sorry Jenna, I smelled crazy in here and I assumed it was you.

ahh, good point

That desire for privacy you mentioned is a REALLY big deal - can you really imagine Alicia wanting any part of the campaign trail? The ethics of Alicia and Peter's work might be closer than we think, but the show has made it pretty clear that Alicia disdains the public nature and requirements of obtaining/maintaining…

I think Alicia going for state's attorney would be to big of a stretch. Leaving Lockhardt-Gardner for her own firm was strongly against the grain of the narrative, but more than plausible for her character. Given all that we know about her character up to this point, going for state's attorney wouldn't make any…

Annie Edison and Shirley Bennett

The impression I get is that 30 Rock has a broader appeal/ratings than those two shows (not BBT or even Office level appeal, but bigger than AD/Community) and thus has a more diverse fanbase that necessarily makes it less cult-ish. Put another way, I think 30 Rock had a lot more casual fans tv fans who watched…

No Dennis Duffy Episode should ever get a lower grade than A-!

i would watch the ish out of "Mysteries of Laura" starring Jane Kaczmarek

I actually like the comparison to House a lot - I think that's the direction in which the best version of the show would go, and I think Debra Messing could pull off a passable facsimile of what Hugh Laurie brought to his role. But from what I saw in the trailer the writing is predictable, tries too hard for too…

swell swell swell, Harvey Keitel

I love "Tracy does Conan", but i strongly disagree that the show failed to reach that level of zaniness again. I think season two got there pretty consistently - think "Rosemary's Baby", "Greenzo", "Sandwich Day"; there are other comparably manic episodes sprinkled throughout the other seasons - "Do-over", "100"…

i don't know how to say this…dee-ay-ba-tees???

I think the Adams really underrates "Jack meets Dennis" - sure the blackout is a somewhat cheap get out of jail free card, but the three subplots leading to tracy/jenna/josh being unavailable are so delightfully funny (R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor) that i can overlook it. Overall i think the episode does great work laying…

the funniest was freddy wetting himself, most satisfying was lane handing it to pete

My view is that CBS is generally solid with dramas - I think Person of Interest is up there with some of the best cable dramas, with The Good Wife not far behind; We give CBS a lot of crap because its non-HIMYM comedies are complete garbage; 2.5 Men and BBT, 2 Broke Girls, etc. deserve every bit of criticism they get…