I mentally hear that song as "There's a Star-Burns / Waiting in the sky…" Thought of it one day a couple years ago, now I'm stuck with it.

I want to say that the difference is something to do with comedians. In the UK, at least, a lot of these shows thrive on regular/semi-regular comedian panelists — people like Stephen Fry, Phill Jupitus, Bill Bailey, David Mitchell, et al. The funny thing is, I can think of dozens of American comedians who could do…

That could be it. For me, the ever-expanding cast of characters and backstory are practically the POINT of the show, so a season that has that only in nascent form is never going to be my favorite.

Really? In my experience, I've heard a lot of season 3, a lot of season 4, and that's it. And I'm looking back at a list of Season 2 episodes, and… yeah, no way that is the peak of anything. There are a few pretty weak episodes — not one or two, several. And there was almost no backstory at that point. It wasn't…

So did Isaac Asimov.

The characters are already at least as multi-dimensional as Parks and Rec's characters. And it's entirely possible they won't go further than that, if we take Parks and Rec as a precedent.

The problem with Season 4 of Eastbound and Down was that it was a season of Eastbound and Down.

3, I can see. 4, I can agree with. (With the caveat that we've only seen half of season 5…) But 2? 2 was great and all, but still struggling to get beyond the original conception of the series into what it became.

Are we sure Luigi isn't his own father? "Time travel shenanigans" covers a lot of scenarios.

Judging by Romance of the Three Kingdoms, that's deliberate. Lu Bu was like the Brock Samson of ancient China or something.

To me, the Rogue Squadron series was a huge letdown. Coming from the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series, it just seemed… on rails, you know? Maneuvering within a window rather than the 3-dimensional space of the earlier games.

Are they larger than life, though? Because offhand, I'd say that's a HUGE frog, but a rather puny bear. The pig seems about accurate.

30,000 people will watch it. But every one of those 30,000 people will eat some pizza.

Most of the episodes were directed by Tristram Shapeero or Jay Chandrasekhar, the same guys who were there for season 4. (And a large part of season 3, and some season 2 episodes in Shapeero's case.) So I'm not sure what to tell you there — maybe they're telling the kinds of stories that necessitate that kind of…

Yeah, I like comments about me. Oh well.

Who is Blake Shelton? Some kind of off-brand Blake Griffin impersonator? Is he part of a comedy duo with this "Josh Groban" figure? I'm so confused.

I think I've figured it out. NBC isn't trying to appeal to Middle America. They're MOCKING Middle America. Greenblatt is upset that nobody wants NBC to become Showtime, so now they're just thinking of the corniest, most banal things possible and filming them — cheesy '50s musicals starring reality show contestants,…

All of this applies to me, except the last sentence, and the fact that I auditioned in person three times (once in Providence, RI and twice in Los Angeles.) And now I am no longer eligible, due to being an employee of Sony. Curses.

Its okay that you don't like them. Not everything you don't like has to be bad. Some things… some people just don't like. Simmer down.

Will Arnett can play a horse. But Kristen Schaal IS a horse.