You don't have to like the Arcade Fire, but "amelodic" and "mumbling" are two very, very strange attempts at criticism.

It's almost like your screen name is a freaking Primus song, so maybe back off on complaining about people's lyrics.

Well deserved — not shocking, given that the ratings are pretty good, but still good news. This show is a few years in, and it keeps getting better.

And might I point out…

There's a huge difference between "close to home" and "close to what clueless people have been assuming was home for decades, even though it's nowhere near that." It wears you down, you know?

You should really have already known about Guantanamo Bay.

You can borrow my creme de violette. I enjoy a good Aviation, but at a couple dashes per drink, that stuff is not going anywhere fast.

That;s at least two levels of obscurity above what TBBT would do.

I love Louis CK's stand-up (especially his pre-Lucky Louie stand-up.) I think he's brilliant. Lucky Louie was not a great show, a good show, or even a mediocre show. It was a disaster on virtually every level, and a disaster that harmed Louis CK in other areas of his career.

"its not supposed to be funny cause they're both nerds—its cause they've both somehow connected with each other"

I don't think anyone would make a show (or even an episode of a show) about Garrett, though. Garrett is (and was designed as) a one-joke character, like the many such characters on The Simpsons. You wouldn't say "The Simpsons is bad at writing characters. Look at that Sea Captain guy, all he says is 'Arrrr.'"

"This show has had its lead characters debating the merits or flaws of
various media products that are supposed to be representative of nerd
culture on that show…"

You see, it's not "on you". It's "on a pathetically badly drawn bunch of straw men that these people are claiming are you." THAT'S the problem.

Replace the nerd jokes with sports jokes and you don't have something people were relentlessly bullied about in school.

Well, I've seen a LOT of bits of the show. Seeing entire episodes (the horror!) would only be necessary if I was trying to critique plot structures. I'm critiquing the way scenes hold together, the way characters are drawn, individual jokes, etc.

Sorry. I just recorded my debut stand-up album "Snoopy Brock Samson Coach From Cheers Snoopy" last week. Though if you think of some other characters, you may be able to get in under the wire.

I've read the entire script. I'm obviously very familiar with the scene in question. I've seen parts of several other episodes.

…you just have to be an inhuman creature who talks and behaves like nobody who has ever lived.

I'd give a special prize to the run of "NewsRadio" episodes that were just named after Led Zeppelin albums.

I've seen the scene I did. ("Your scan data will be very helpful to my research." to "I'd like to do the math," to be precise.) It's a brilliant example of how the show wants to be seen as expressing sympathy for its characters, but the characters are so badly conceived and written that it comes off as absurdly obtuse.