I think The Shooting Party is a novella and stylistically geared toward short form fiction, but fine, technicality point. We can certainly agree Chekhov devoted his life to short stories over novels and for good reason.

I think his Witmark stuff is pretty weak in general and obviously not meant to be listened to for enjoyment. He's just trying to get the stuff down to be transcribed for sheet music. Any flubs and he'd just make a note. I'm really surprised they'd make it an official "bootleg" in the series.

You're making a very retroactive argument, obviously Scorsese and Spielberg should be making feature length films, because we know them to be brilliant feature-length directors. You're setting up a hypothetical that can't possibly exist. If Tolstoy stuck to short stories, yeah I'd think we missed on out some great…

Sorry, I mean to say two yoots.

He did like 4 takes for "Times" and a couple for Witmark, I think, nothing live.

@inko8:disqus I hear you. I think the way to have written that arc is have Leslie immediately see through the ruse, but have the sanitation guys stick to their guns while the reporter is caught in the middle without a clear perspective. Then Leslie and April spend the rest of the episode figuring out a way around this…

And it never anchored the show they way some writers here insisted it did. It's always been a joke machine first and foremost. Even these episodes building to the finale have a pretty even split on silly/character based arcs and jokes.

Really impressive piece of writing backwards over several episodes. They had it in their heads to give Liz mini-Tracy and Jenna, but there's a lot to unpack considering we've always known she's wanted one infant adoption for several seasons now. So you have to get her to a place where it's conceivable for Liz to both…

Yeah, that really took me out of the story. So women are just as tough as men, cool, great, but not smart enough to see when they've been set up on an obviously impossible task? Not even a hand truck? It's an industrial-sized refrigerator! In what world would reasonable characters believe even four men could have…

Ann and April especially so too. I think they're entering that 4th season Office phase where their devotion to small town humble looks is taking a back seat to emerging stars looking flawless.

See above.

Pretty certain it's off the Ten of Swords bootleg, the version taken from "The Times They Are a-Changin'" session.

@Monkey_pants:disqus No it isn't. Fewer and fewer Americans own their homes, while there are more and more renters, and those that are fortunate enough to not have landlords are heavily indebted to the banking class.

Hasn't he always just been omnisexual? Prince sleeps with genders you've never even heard of.

He's been making pop songs again for a while now. I think he still reserves the right to release something really incoherent yet didactic when he pleases.

"I mean the very idea of landed gentry is probably exotic nonsense to them"
Unfortunately it's not.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME DISTORTION DRENCHED INDIE CROONING?!

@avclub-c657bb88929c8410c8b3dfb3d7a568e0:disqus Oh, thanks. I did, in fact, think these scenes fell from the sky or was somehow replaced by @avclub-f25df802e1f2a23eec2c7901b72d290d:disqus while NBC executives were asleep at the wheel.

@avclub-c657bb88929c8410c8b3dfb3d7a568e0:disqus Oh, thanks. I did, in fact, think these scenes fell from the sky or was somehow replaced by @avclub-f25df802e1f2a23eec2c7901b72d290d:disqus while NBC executives were asleep at the wheel.