Aw, come on. Worf had stuff to do. And Troi also had stuff to do sometimes, it was just usually pretty bad.

It's actually downtown.

This is a show with five regulars. There hasn't been a network show with that small a cast in years. You'd think they could manage six… in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the small number of potential pairings is what's led some characters to be sidelined (off and on/in general) throughout the show's run.

So "it's been beating it in the ratings" means "they tied once"?

Well, they have five comedies they haven't cancelled. Community is already set to premiere on 1/2, they have a full season of P&R ordered already, MJF already has a full season order, and word is that the new Bill Lawrence mid-season show is in some amount of turmoil.

Nope.

Well, that's the same reasoning NBC has had for three or four years now. "Fuck good comedy, let's get paid." And now they're finding out that bad comedy pays even less.

You know, they hired Hannibal to write for 30 Rock. But if he wrote a pilot after that, I never heard about it. I'd watch his show… he's a funny guy.

Yeah… if Community was doing better than Go On despite all the promotion Go On was getting, despite Go On being new and still dropping, despite Community being held for mid-season, and despite Community being non-Dan Harmon Community, there's no way they'd hold on to Go On. It's the same reason Community will be back…

1.1-1.2 is semi-excusable at 8:00. At 9:00, you have to ask what could possibly do worse. NBC has a couple shows that could do literally one and a half times that, but they're not new, so the new network heads can't act like they have anything to do with that.

I'd watch Canadian Horror Story. Maple syrup dripping from the walls, the ever-present threat of the Bloody Moose, inevitably ghost hockey. This business, though? This… holds no interest for me.

I love Artemis. Possibly because I knew her before I started watching the show, but still… Artemis > no Artemis, always.

I don't know how anyone who saw Parks and Rec would be surprised that this show insists too much on its main character. My hope — and I'm saying this is as someone who still really likes what I've seen so far of Brooklyn 9-9 — is that by leading with it, they can identify it as a problem with the original concept and…

Modern Seinfeld adaptation or get out.

5 of 9 episodes so far. I feel like they're going to have to bring me in at least a couple times for the last few, but I suppose we'll see.

I feel like most episodes of most shows have non-recurring characters who just come in, say a few lines of dialogue as the plot requires, and then leave. This is no different… it's just that they're using more well-known actors (and… TV show creators, I guess.)

I looked this up (REALLY, Erik?), and it turns out that they're relatively expensive to produce, because turkeys take up more space than chickens and don't lay nearly as many eggs.

As God is my witness, I'm going to have to research that.

I'm pretty sure turkeys lay eggs.

(SUBTEXT: The turkey is addicted to meth.)