And the dialogue was way too on the nose about this. Needs to be much more show and far less tell.

@avclub-fb2b6f6724a343bc1a019004847aa59d:disqus Tell me with a straight face hunger games is in any way different than two campus-destroying paintball wars, or a building-wide pillow fort, or a secret cabal of air conditioner repairmen, or Abed becoming a campus messiah, or Chang staging a college coup-d'etat with a…

I think with the mass exodus following Harmon, including now Gantz, Rash is probably the most gifted comedic voice left and I'm very curious to see the episode he wrote.

@avclub-c7684d43035cba8fe351d14a41209dc5:disqus “There are two choices. One is the story line — like everybody gives a shit about the fucking story when they don’t even know who the characters are — or there’s, ‘Make people laugh.’”

I don't buy that at all, his complaints (very public) have always been about the show being too sentimental.

Biggest change this season has got to be shifting Jim Rash from off the bench utility player to the guy doing all the comedic heavy lifting. Much as I find this new Community disappointing, can't say I mind that bit.

His show was genuinely funny and he probably had the best writing staff in late night (excluding Colbert) for a time, producing inventive, great sketches, but it seems most of them have moved on to their own projects. Now the show rests on playing games and skits with star power, which mostly serves to flatter them…

Does anyone else just get physically uncomfortable when he goes into that "Can I talk to…" shit? It typifies everything I hate about theater people: Behaving that artificially that earnestly.

A pervy Jedi?

Seriously, I don't know if Harold Ramis himself could've written a funnier line. The Onion gets the final word on Time:

Seriously, he puts in like five years in the late night slot and gets to stay in New York. The red headed stepchild joke is too easy.

I really liked the timing of when he put it together, most shows would have had him either be on board way too early or never get it. But you could see him watching Jess and gathering the pieces.

Well yeah, that's parents. But the show seems to want us to see him as a fuck up, which they effectively get at in ways like his wonderment at operating a washing machine. But it always strikes me as somewhat out of touch when we're supposed to scoff at his career as a bartender. My bartender friends rarely work more…

He's found bartending work 5 nights a week, he has his life together more than a lot of people these days. It's one of my minor irks with this show that they don't understand how impressive that is in a major city, and he should be pulling in pretty good money, especially for the crowds they show at that place. And…

I briefly considered making an explicit exception for CBB hybrid impressions, but I figured that'd be assumed.

Oh, I bet he had every word of To Russell, 200 M.P.H., etc. memorized.

Did he? This totally pre-dates Cosby's reputation as a moralizing statesmen of black culture, so that would make Murphy wildly prescient.

It's amazing anyone ever did a Cosby impression after Murphy, because no one ever got it as perfect. It goes so beyond the cheap Jello references and nonsense words, and gets his whole intonation and narrative arc of his stand up.

Assist goes to Pryor, what a perfect comeback.

Assist goes to Pryor, what a perfect comeback.