A half-season isn't a "random hiatus."

Again, nobody let Parks and Rec "languish." Parks and Rec was treated not just well, but extraordinarily well by the network.

The roots of NBC's problems are in NOT picking up those kinds of shows for the last 5 years or so. They picked up a lot of broad CBS-style comedies, and nobody liked them. They picked up a few shows about families, and nobody liked them. Now they seem to be coming back around to realizing they need to pick up the kind…

What shows have they cancelled before their time? NBC has had no clue what shows to pick up lately — which is why this sounds like a step in the right direction for them, relatively speaking — but they've treated pretty much all the shows that have gotten on the air more than fairly. It's just that none of the recent…

It was "thrown around the schedule" into the best time slots, in an attempt to make the ratings work. Which they didn't. For seven years.

Where in New York? I've done maybe a dozen shows there over the years, and didn't see anything like that. I hear a lot of the clubs there are bad, but I also know a lot of the clubs there tend to foster the kind of comics who like to push the audience around.

Fair enough! As I said, not my experience, but who knows. I think it IS pretty inarguable that the media publicizing heckling makes heckling more likely, whether that's a 3% to 5% change or a 30% to 50% one. There are so many interesting things happening in comedy, and this isn't one of them.

And as a follow-up, the conventional wisdom is that well-known comics are actually MORE likely to be deliberately heckled, because the heckler thinks "this guy was on TV, he's pretty famous, but I can take him down." (Or because the heckler thinks he's helping, and is confident that the established comic will be able…

I grew up in semi-rural Florida. Therefore, I've made it a point not to do stand-up there.

That's interesting. I've done over a thousand shows, and even counting the ones where someone says something innocuous to a friend and the "comic" on stage thinks "hey, I'm going to go after THAT guy!" (.i.e. most 'heckling' incidents), the number's well below 10%. Probably below 5%.

The weird obsession some non-comics have with heckling is like if most hospital dramas were about surgeons amputating the wrong limb: I'm not saying it never happens, and I'm not saying it's not bad, but it's incredibly rare, and acting like "oh, that's part of the profession" is wildly misleading.

Season five. Five seasons. By now, wouldn't the teenage wolves have been killed, driven away, taken over, or (at a bare minimum) turned 20?

Community got a lot of those, but I think they only covered The Critic as Classic reviews if at all, so even if there was an episode that bad, it wouldn't have gotten a grade.

Coulda fooled me. There wasn't enough in those characters for them to be a story.

I'm seeing double here! Three (at least) Marvin Gayes!

I choo-choo-choose to ignore this.

Was that "the central story of S1" now? I thought it was a show about a crime investigation.

Okay, well, you should've led with that and saved sane people time.

Oh, I get it. This is like a guessing game. Is half a sandwich a sandwich?

A hero/sub or a cheesesteak (etc.) aren't cut fully in two. Please tell me you're not hinging (pun intended) the definition of "sandwich" on the manner of slicing/not slicing the last bit of bread by the edge.