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Easily the most I laughed all night. Sims is right on about Kate and Kenan basically constituting the only good parts of last night's show.

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'll put in a plug for "Gentlemen", which took everything good about "Congregation" and made it better.

That guy really likes A1 steak sauce.

I am experiencing a profound sense of melancholy.

Yes, not that the exterior shots have done much to establish that (it was sunny and the trees still had all their leaves in the S1 Christmas episode, for example).

10 reasons. You forgot legs.

Not B99's strongest outing, although it was nice to see some texture added to Gina's character (she needed it) and Boyle as well (less in need, but always welcome because Boyle is the best). I was a little bit disappointed, overall — but that's what happens when a show gets on a tear, and then a "just okay" episode

Encapsulates my feelings exactly. I really, really loved the first two seasons of the show, and Season 3 was when the shine started coming off the apple, IMO (although I will admit late Season 2 had its low points as well). So for an episode to actually feel like vintage "Community" again is really great.

A- for me. It didn't quite hit the hilarious highs of "Cooperative Calligraphy", "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking", or "Paradigms of Human Memory" (all obvious forerunners to this half-hour) or mine the emotional depths of "Mixology Certification" or "Critical Film Studies" (somewhat less obvious forerunners) as

I agree. That was nice.

And fans of recent past Best Comedy winners "Modern Family" did grin.

The characterization of "the bet" in this episode struck me as an on-the-fly retcon, as Peralta seemed relatively earnest about wanting Santiago to go on a date with him in the pilot and it was made abundantly clear in this episode that he was (consciously, at least) just trying to embarrass her.

Of all the examples on "Parks", you choose Brendanawicz? What are you.

Counterpoint: B99's first six episodes weren't middling to dreadful.

That's about the arc for me in Season 1 of "Community". The Jeff/Britta lampshading in "Pilot" was every bit the stale TV trope Abed would have said it was, and the Troy/Annie thing was worse. But as the characters became more rounded, the actors settled into their roles, and the cast started to really gel, both

Tasha also referred to River as a "psychopath", didn't she? — the term River used to describe herself in "The Angels Take Manhattan".

Completely agreed. I also haven't rewatched any of the S7 stories, which I should probably go back and do at some point.

Oh, I'm just glad the Doctor didn't age into Tweety Bird again.

I think it was just the disjointedness of the season being broken up, honestly. I felt that too. I mean, we knew the Ponds were leaving and Clara was arriving all throughout the first half of the series, then the show took a few months off and came back with just a handful of episodes to acquaint us with Clara and

The sound mixing after he regenerated was bad; between the music and the crashing, it was hard to make out that he was saying anything at all.