No one in the room I was watching caught it, I had to piece it together from the timeline, figuring they wouldn't have passed over MLK to get to RFK, though that will likely come in the next episode or two.

Someone needs to tell me Paul Newman actually showed up to an advertising award show to make that okay for me. That's like something out of Mad Men fan fiction.

"I feel like they're trying to humanize Selina much more this season, and showing reasons why the public (and POTUS) would actually like her, a la Michael Scott."
That's not what this show is, why do people keep expecting this show to turn into something it's not?

Yup, and to paraphrase Louise, there are a lot of strong women on this show, even if they aren't always voiced by women. Even in their adolescent crushes they're both pretty dominant.

Yes, I just wish they gave her more to do. I wanted a low-energy stand-off with Tina.

I absolutely loved how they handled what is usually a very cliche and very predictable story line: parents getting wrapped up in their children's competition. Instead of going with Bob getting over-invested and taking over, they just helped and supported. Gene didn't improbably win and he didn't lose in a shameful way…

They're also two very different things.

Well first off congrats, especially if this means less freelancing struggles and more benefits of the fully employed. You're probably my favorite active pop culture writer so I look forward to continue reading wherever you're winding up.

Agreed, I want that voice back on the show, even if it's not Brandanowitz himself (though I certainly wouldn't mind his return).

It's a (marginally) interesting question I've been asking myself increasingly, and this is one I can say predates the Harmon departure: just how discerning is Abed's pop culture taste?

@avclub-c6447300d99fdbf4f3f7966295b8b5be:disqus Yeah, agreed. I suppose I'm curious which impulse came first, though the safest bet is it played out exactly as they wrote it in the interstitial stuff. And while emotionally draining in the moment (and for anyone watching out of context), do people feel it's undercut at…

Whoa, maybe we all need some space to pull the knife out of the back of the most celebrated Canadian alt rock band of the mid-90s you selfish jaded ass!

Yes, amazing. It also requires a lot of unpacking because while deeply, deeply affecting (I was a total mess after seeing it the first time…and several times after that), it is the punchline to an even bigger bit - a show that like Blackadder never did anything but be funny suddenly having this abrupt dramatic moment.

I think about as much happened as in any non-wedding episode, maybe more. Leslie confronted the reality that she might not be right for politics, and that's probably a good thing. I'm glad the writers finally pulled the trigger on this, because it's hung over the show since she got elected and they kept doing those…

Someone else said it, but I felt that was kind of the point. They wanted to telegraph that we're not really supposed to take this seriously, so they just sort of do the gestures. That the Dean wasn't ever supposed to be taken seriously gave him license to go for broke. And yes, he absolutely killed it.

It was also the first episode of the season where I felt they finally wrote up to Britta in making her fairly savvy (something very much lost on earlier episodes). She was right on top of where the body switch came from. The point is that she's self-sabotaging, not that she's utterly inept.

I'll keep saying it, Jim Rash continues to be the best thing (and the only improved thing) about Season 4 Community.

They really ought to just change the name of the show at this point to "Aww…Martha…no…why you gonna…c'mon…sigh. Poor Martha."

Yeah, it's on my list. I'm a bit backlogged at the moment.

@Nacho_Matrimony:disqus Totally with you on natural ambiance, can't get enough of those experiments.