Nobody has ever meant Ivan Meets G.I. Joe.

I know. I guess I meant something more along the lines of "7 good British punk bands." I could see the Damned (their first couple albums, anyway), and the Buzzcocks (who were doing a really different sort of thing), but… eh…

Were there 7 British punk bands in the '70s?

I'd say Wright, Hedberg, Emo Philips… Galifianakis when he was doing stand-up full-time, Dan Mintz. I'm sure there's another really good one-liner comic who I'm blanking on, or who I haven't seen.

SPOILER ALERT: The monkey does not get brought.

Well, he couldn't film in Delaware. Simpsons did it.

I suppose it's not his fault that casting directors keep trying to fit him into roles where he's supposed to be likable.

In a way, if it was too rigidly composed, it wouldn't reflect the human experience as well.

I like both of them a lot!

Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan were executive producers on the first three seasons of the show. I don't think their job included writing, though.

He is (or was, for the first season or so) the center of the show because he formed the study group. That's the premise of the show.

(Greg Kinnear wipes the sweat from his brow, hunching down into his coat. They haven't seen him, he thinks… and if casting directors have their way, he'll be safe forever.)

You can go off and be a loner! Maybe you can't believe a mouse!

Community didn't do the things Arrested Development specialized in as well as Arrested Development did them. But it also did things Arrested Development never did, and in many cases never tried to do. (The whole approach to characterization is different, for one.) They're really not similar at all except for density,…

Fair enough. I feel like New Girl (the first two seasons at least; I haven't seen the third) is very similar to a softened (as a descriptor of type, not of quality — like, I'd call Parks and Rec a softened version of The Office in some ways, but it's not a referendum on either's quality) version of that show. Like, if…

That's what I'm talking about. Life isn't generally composed of arcs. Interesting things happen, but most of them do in fact happen in bursts largely independent of each other. The few exceptions are things like, for example, the firm's collapse in Season 3 — things that would in fact take months or longer to play out.

How do you feel about It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

I've revisited "Strangers With Candy" three or four times over the course of a decade. I still haven't found anything that even qualifies as a joke, let alone something that's amusing to me.

"Archer" is still largely just fake "Venture Brothers" plus shock-value one-liners, and doesn't approach AD's level of craft or density. It's a fun little diversion on occasion, but really no more than that.

"It's had its moments but it always feels like a random collection of scenes with an incredibly tenuous connection week to week."