*And by "the better episodes" I mean "the better episodes made since season 8."

I set 8 as the cutoff, personally. I don't understand the hate it gets at all. But I equally don't understand how someone could consider, say, season 10 to be brilliant television. By that point the show was already piss poor (at least some of the seasons AFTER the godawful 10-12 period were actually half-decent).

POSSIBLE SPOILERS HERE, even if you have seen every episode, since it pertains to future episodes.

I actually thought to check the scene with the song toward the end, and Gabe is NOT present. I know that's explained (he runs off upset after Erin breaks up with him), but I've still gotta think it was purposeful somehow.

The Michael Scott Paper Company thing was really awesome. But it's also really freaking WEIRD. I mean, people talk about how goofy the show has gotten…that's definitely a fine example right there. He leaves the company and somehow gets Pam to join him? And they somehow end up in the same building? And then somehow get…

I'd go a little earlier than elf jockeys, but yeah, that episode was awful. One of the most controversial episodes ever made, I believe. I think Dan Castelenetta (sp?) even once said that it was his least favorite episode. And for that matter, I saw the writer of that episode speak at a college a few years afterward…

I never really felt like any given character tended to have weaker episodes than others (within the core family…obviously side characters are a different story) so much as every character has a bunch of classics and a bunch of weak shows, and basically in equal measure with each other. Homer has the highest percentage…

In middle and high school, I used to take saxophone lessons (relevant!). There was one day when I could barely keep from laughing every few minutes, and I finally had to explain to my teacher that I'd just watched this episode before going to the lesson and had the "my ding-a-ling" joke stuck in my head.

There's a more recent interview I think where Seth said he might end it at season 12. Guess he realized how close season 10 was and reconsidered.

My impression (which could be wrong) was that this was going based on individual network (non-syndication, in other words) airings of these shows. So a network rerun would count, but it would count separately from the original broadcast of that same episode.

I wonder how this would change
when you factor in merchandising, syndication, sales on iTunes/Amazon, etc. It seems this is going strictly by individual airings and the ad revenue from them? All told, I wouldn't be surprised if American Idol isn't actually even the biggest moneymaker for FOX, considering how much…

I don't really watch Community (it's on my list of things to check out), but there's no way they'd purposely cap it at four seasons. Just from the business end of things, they would need to figure out how to get to 100 episodes for syndication.

I'm 24. I saw The Phantom Menace when I was 12 and being at least vaguely disappointed in it. After a while the reality of it sunk in and I think it's a terrible movie. I haven't seen it for about six years (watched it again around the time of Ep. III) and sort of refuse to.

(Apologies to Supernaut since I see he sort of already posted that one.)

The thing is, I lost creative control of the project. That and I forgot to ask for any money. Well, live and learn.

See, I love Eisenberg because he's proof that some women might actually like totally awkward, skinny jewish dudes.

The average length of the opening varied from year to year, I think…of the classics, 1-4 typically had full length or close to it, while it became very rare in 5-8. Of non-classics, I recall most of the ones from 9-12 having the full opening, and then 13+ (for as long as I actually stuck with it) generally having the…

Miss, I don't think I quite got 100 percent of those references, but that was an awesome post.

Although it's a good review, I gotta agree with Dumbledore. This is my favorite episode of the whole friggin' SERIES.

Ugly Americans has nice amounts of detail for a cable show, but the designs are sort of stiff and off-putting. Except when the girlfriend goes into "demon mode" or whatever the characters have basically no expression and very little range of movement. To me at least it's distracting, although it fits the bland…