I agree with PJ about Simon - he's meant to be a bit stiff and restrained. In his scenes with River you see a different side to the character, and Sean Maher shines.

I think it's the best episode of anything that I've ever seen. I'd also rate it ahead of any film I've ever seen (though that is of course coloured by the fact I feel like I know these characters better than any film characters).

I know no-one's ever going to read this
But I'm catching up on Community and just watched this yesterday.

Nice to see Jaime Murray
Glad someone pardoned her tits.

Not only can I not guess that, I can't guess what you mean by ASOPA

We've quoted that line twice and I'm pretty sure we've both got it wrong. It's "*strengthened* by faith"

"Well over three and a half centuries ago, sprinkling by faith and bound by a common desire for liberty, a small band of pilgrims sought out a place in the New World where they could worship according to their own beliefs… and solve crimes."

Not entirely. I'm neither intelligent nor blonde.

I have no idea why Denisof doesn't get more work these days.

SPOILERS. ISH.

DENTAL PLAN

SPOILERS-ish

I'd noticed someone was added as a series regular, but I just assumed it was Barry the money man. He has shown up in both episodes, with little real reason to do so (iirc both times it was things that could, at least, have been done off screen)

That's 4 episodes (assuming you're excluding Checkpoint, which I always enjoyed despite SPOILERS wondering why Buffy hadn't realized the point she made in the last scene from the start). Of those 4 episodes I think ITW is at worst mixed (good Xander speech, SPOILERS Riley finally buggers off), and Triangle at least…

I'm not sure I agree that Snoopy Xander is all the flaws - it's all the weaknesses, in the sense of things that are likely to get you killed, but it's also a lot of what makes him great as a character.

While The Replacement is probably the best of these 4 episodes, the second best was probably Untouchable (imho).

I wasn't wild about I am Legend at any point, but it was the very end (rather than the third act) which killed it for me. If you spend half the film showing that the zombie/vampires may have real emotions, it then looks really shitty when your ending involve blowing a bunch of them up.

I don't think it was Marlee Matlin who showed them that Mandy wasn't working as a foil for Josh. It was Donna.

It took me a few episode of How I Met Your Mother to be sure that Ted wasn't played by the same guy who played Warren in Buffy.

It's pretty much a fight between these two, Noel, 17 People, and Two Cathedrals, from my perspective.