Is there any doubt left that this show is better than Modern Family?  And what's frustrating, too, is that MF could easily have pulled out these plot lines, but its writing and characterization is too weak to make them pop.  Patricia Heaton is outplaying Julie Bowen, and the Heck kids demolish the Dunphies. 

I don't understand the economics of television.  Is it more a question of a show's raw profits, or the opportunity cost of including it in a lineup - including it over something else.  Because Community fans might make the show popular on Saturday night at 11 or something.

Yes, but bear in mind that an NBC exec is sitting next to Dan Harmon during every one, saying "your show should be more like this"

Whitney Cummings and Chelsea Handler the CBS equivalent of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, except for some shocking reason, NBC hired them.

Awesome.

Now you're catching on, Constable!

The Middle might deserve a "most underrated" award.  It's been better than Modern Family since at least the end of their first seasons.

The Mozart joke was great, though they of course had to step on it by having deaf Beethoven recognize it.

Triangle Sally is the best Kristin Wiig character, because she's as stupid as all the other ones, but only lasts for three seconds and does the joke once.

Brittany isn't bisexual.  She is mentally and emotionally incapable of giving meaningful consent so she just agrees with everything.  There's no sense that she actually likes Santana more than her camp rapist who she thought was an 'alien.' 

I think I would have liked it better if this episode was just the black and white Christmas special.  Two or three minutes of framing on either side to let us know that it's happening in-continuity, and then we're done.  The problem with Glee is primarily that the characters rare so variable and unlikeable as to just…

Apparently, that's just what life is like in Austria.  Christmas ever day until Hitler showed up.

Fox isn't crazy about keeping Jesus in Christmas, because it might lead to people thinking about family and spirituality instead of frenzied consumerism.  So the solution, while staying Christian, is to demand a war on Jews by insisting that every Wal-Mart, Sears, or Toys R Us that says "Happy Holidays" hates…

The other thing is that more than any couple on TV, Cam and Mitchell really seem to resent and dislike each other. 

I thought this was a solid episode.  I generally don't care about how bad the bad sketches are, and just focus on how many things really landed.  And I think they had a good number:  Stefon as always, Baldwin as the pilot, and a funny Kristin Wiig character rounded out a solid weekend update; The New Year's Eve sketch…

He would also have an implacable fondness for Alison Brie.

He also has my favorite line in "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson."  It's a shrieking "I'M JOHN QUINCY ADAMS!!!!"

The real convertible is not out of space, Ms. Kitt, but out of time!

Shut up Leonard, I know about your prescription socks.

Politically, it's unacceptable.  But it's theatrical dynamite!