I'm confused. Wasn't that their second-biggest hit behind "Chicken"?

Did Built to Spill ever really leave, though? They're still around!

Or Stokely Carmichael.

Obviously, someone hasn't seen Quick Draw McGraw.

The… White Album?

Also, he's wrong about "insipid", which is closer to "banal" or "bland" in meaning, and is derived from a Latin word referring to flavor. I can't find a reliable source that links it to being mentally handicapped in that sense.

No, it's okay! I'm pretty confident in my performance, and seeing this thing as a weird ineffectual attempt to lash out!

Eh. Cruelty is not necessarily the word. "Superiority"?

I agree on one part of that. I have to be honest, they're not my thing as writers/performers, but as a production company, they've been behind a lot of good stuff.

Ive seen three episodes. It's the same sort of thing… maybe a little more imaginative than most of them, but with the same underlying cruelty.

TV prank shows: still happening for some reason!

I don't know who John Scalzi is, but I would gladly read George Saunders' version of this premise.

To truly be like Borges, they should assimilate the whole cast.

It's a fairly common Romanian name.

Nah. They're just saying that the rest of the episodes will air. (Because they're contractually obligated to burn them off, and they don't have enough Community + Parks and Rec to get them all the way through may anyway.)

I feel like networks want shows that do well on the air. Any theorizing about ulterior motives beyond that is generally silly.

Happy Endings was solidly below 1.0 by the end of its run. Granted, this was after they moved it to Fridays, but it would have had to actually pick up MORE viewers (despite moving to NBC) in order to be viable.

You realize the reason that production companies want to get shows into syndication is that syndication is profitable, right? And new syndication episodes are more profitable than old ones — it follows a cycle. At this point, 13 more episodes of Community would increase the profit by a little over 13%.

Yeah, but plugging Michael J. Fox into an existing strong pitch would only require a minor rewrite to accommodate his Parkinson's. I mean, it's not like what got onto the air was really THAT Parkinson's-centric. Probably because "a sitcom mostly about a guy having Parkinson's" sounds like the worst pitch/show ever.

Outsourced was dropping well before they moved it to 10:30… the move certainly sealed its fate, but they threw it there because the ratings were falling apart, not vice versa.