I'll be pleasantly surprised if the new episode doesn't get a series low.

Fashion Star premiered with a 1.6, but might go up once it gets The Voice as lead-in.

Collider: Alison Brie Talks COMMUNITY Season 3 and MAD MEN

Grimm is certain to be renewed too.

Part of the problem with Whitney is that the setup is so restrictive that it's hard to see how it can define itself beyond hackneyed relationship gags. I actually feel some sympathy for Whitney's writers because trying to be fresh and funny within the premise must be very difficult.

The Vulture article on tropes from the other day that mentions "babysitting an egg" has set me thinking.

I didn't watch with you guys, and I haven't seen Rob but I'll give my general opinions on the shows.

Apparently NBC showed the shortened version of the trailer during The Voice too.

NYTimes: NBC Brings ‘Community’ Back to Its Passionate Fan Base - College’s Winter Break Finally Ends

I've long felt that Community's treatment of Greendale likely puts off some potential viewers. For the longest time, the opening scene of the pilot put me off watching the show.

GCB's ratings rose from 2.2 to 2.3 for its second episode. That's practically unheard of.

This episode felt quite sedate and forgettable but, unlike last week, the writing was never offensively bad.

Yvette Nicole Brown is posting set photos on Twitter, starting with a photo of Brie and Jacobs during The Psychology of Letting Go (S02E03) and Jeong during the pop-and-lock-a-thon from Accounting for Lawyers (S02E02).

Shows like Outsourced and Work It existed but enough people found their premises horrible enough that they refused to watch and they got cancelled fairly quickly.

I could go on a big rant but that's just a minor element that's emblematic of the regressive way many television shows treat 'nerdiness' as a whole.

I suspect I've misused 'trope', because I mean 'inherently unfunny plotlines' rather than 'tropes'.

Name some crap sitcom tropesplots which are popular despite being comedy black-holes (i.e. inherently unfunny plotlines).

You forgot about Harry's Law.

For a moment, after reading your Simpsons blurb, I thought your post was a parody.

I find it interesting that the female writers, on the whole, don't seem to like Community as much as the male writers.