I'm no fanboy, but I have to admire that. It certainly takes a lot of effort to make something so slavishly following the original material but in doing so becomes too faithful to a fault.

Yeah, it's a Wedding Crashers-esque move. Gabe's not THAT bad. Or so we think.

Gabe's presence in this episode is really underrated. I liked him desperately doing the bidding of Dwight in order to avoid having Packer as a boss.

I watch The Big Bang Theory ironically. I'm not laughing at the jokes, but at how bad it is! It's like Chuck Lorre is spinning out one new atrocity of a nerd stereotype every minute!

I agree. The Dark Knight Rises would have had perfect timing. In general the lack of spectacular new movie trailers was very disappointing.

A lot of commentators are too hard to please. Jack's self-negotiation rivaled his therapy session with Tracy. A superb performance.

She watched Newsradio! Truly 30 Rock is its successor!

What character development does AD have at all? Maybe George Michael, being the kid son, changes, but everyone else hovers in their own sense of weirdness of blandness (like Michael). It has character development in the same way that the Simpsons has continuity.

The episode had solid fundamentals but I definitely think Leslie's characterization is slipping further into Mary Sue territory.

Hitler, JustinBieber & Skrillex go to hell. They meet the Devil sitting on his throne, he asks them why they're in hell.

Why is it when a director who likes a subject thematically and reuses it, it is considered to be masturbatory? When is it non-self-indulgent and not gross?

Put all these shows on the Netflix channel.

Cold opens aren't canon. /rumor

Marion Cotillard is a big actress, though.

I've missed the discussion, so it's uncertain that this comment will be read, but I think at times in this episode Dwight was really channeling the mean, snarky side of Newsradio's Bill McNeal, played by the late great Phil Hartman. He was sharp and besuited. The "Gabe, you are an American classic" line was profoundly…

I fairly enjoyed the show, the second episode more than the first. It has the low-key, bucolic charm that King of the Hill has, though I hope it doesn't get too zany and random.

I'm still sad that Nora left the show.

No "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" joke? For shame, comments section.

Between this and Take-Two's announcement of a new turn-based X-COM sequel faithful to the original game and developed by Firaxis, this is shaping up to be a good week for geeks everywhere.

At least they're preserving some of the international scenes. I hope they keep the Israeli civil war, it would gain some real-world resonance what with the actual incidents between the IDF and the ultra-Orthodox lately.