I think any show has to grapple with that, and many shows do make that a plot of some episode down the line. Community does it about 100 times better than this show ever could.

That is an excellent point, 1 like for you.

I agree it was over the top, too much so. Donna's line though, is apt.

I hear the Vikes are about to (if they haven't already) bench McNabb.

When Ted referred to Woody Allen as "The Wood man" or something similarly stupid, that last shred of me that cared about his master plot died.

This is a perfectly fine episode of The Office, I think all of your complaints are just so you can kick a horse when its slightly but not really all that down.

No,  @avclub-7981662e179084185ce8f10afda245e5:disqus it is right, Pawnee is a ridiculous town now. Apparently its right near Indy, but has its own NPR, a weird version of Bel-Air next to it and spa's and shit galore. However, that show let's all that in a very subtle way, this book prank is a knock over the head…

Agreed, the book prank was beyond the pale.

Jillian Jacobs is quickly becoming a master of physical comedy.

Hey listen, so yes, you did not like one of the finest things the medium of television has ever produced, but if that's the worst thing to happen to you today, consider yourself lucky.

Hopefully none, definitely some.

It will only prove that America suxxx.

All things must pass, let them be great before they do.

I'm torn, I want to see more of them, but in all honestly they shouldn't come back.

At first I thought it was pot, but then in another scene it looked like a cigarette.

Chang works in his own ways, but yes, this episode would have suffered without him.

I thought making it a gun was an inspired gag.

Save it for the Entertainment Weekly comments section, I bet they're dorking it over Whitney right now.

Watching this episode is the closest thing TV will come to providing a genuine religious experience, so a sermon is apropos.

I bet it still happens, but its increasingly sad each time.