Why do so many automatically assume that Stephen Colbert would become boring if he dropped the persona? If you love what he's done with The Colbert Report over nine years, isn't it a little mean to assume that it's the only thing he can do? It's gotta be exhausting playing a character four nights a week for nearly 10…

I don't think Colbert would have to make the Late Show political in order for it to be interesting. Colbert could easily put his own stamp on the format in his own twisted way. He has a lot to offer than just politics. Imagine if he could do shit like "A Colbert Christmas" on the Late Show? He's done so many…

I agree with this. There was a time when people were questioning whether The Colbert Report would even work at all. Does nobody remember this? The concept of The Colbert Report was challenging and Colbert has done so much with the show. But he's almost 50 years old, do we expect him to play the right-wing persona…

I also just remembered that "The Return" has this gem of a dialogue exchange:

Those two are definite A's in my opinion. I'd even give an A to The Coup because of how great Dwight/Rainn Wilson was in that episode. I can see Grief Counseling and Initiation being in B/B+ territory, but then Diwali is another classic. And I get the feeling that Erik Adams was never a fan of taking Jim away from the…

I loved the Jim/Dwight sales team. We never got to see enough of Jim and Dwight working as a team. There was so much comic potential there.

Toby was a wonderfully sad character before he left for Costa Rica, then he came back, got obsessed with the Scranton Strangler and just wasn't the same.

Yeah, I actually really liked Karen Filipelli. She had clear career goals, had a little bit of an attitude, but had a soft spot for Jim that was immediately endearing. She wasn't as warm and sweet like Pam, but you can still see that she was really into Jim. He just didn't reciprocate. Plus, the tension between Karen…

We also get that great little moment in A Benihana Christmas when Oscar returns to the office, sees Angela singing Little Drummer Boy, says "Too soon," and then walks out. I love that. Also I love pretty much everything about "The Return," that actually might be my all-time favorite Office episode.

I couldn't even watch the cringe-worthy moment in Scott's Tots, when it was first happening. That has to be number one on that list. The Michael/Oscar kiss was cringey, but funny. That Scott's Tots scene was just messed up.

I don't know about this. There's a lot of hating going on in this comments section, but if you hear Flea play on "Soul to Squeeze," he definitely adds a solid melodic element to his bass playing even when he's not playing funk. Sorry to comment on this now, I'm just really bored and reading these Hatesong comment…

that line in Juno always bothered me. i get that she probably just said that to piss off Jason Bateman's character, but eff that! I mean, sure, if she bought one of their early albums, I could begrudgingly understand the comment, but how can you dismiss one of their albums as being a bunch of noise when you love…

So did those guys ever wind up getting in the ring? I always wanted a sequel to that song.

The "Batman Forever" soundtrack was how I discovered Sunny Day Real Estate.

Not only was this a great episode, The Birthday Boys was solid as well!

Well I just wrote a big response and it got unceremoniously erased so I give up. But again, it's not that I cared that much about Jim/Karen, it's that I felt they stopped giving Jim/Pam much purpose on the show except to build their relationship. They stopped being individual characters and were only given brief…

Well first of all, I never thought the Jim/Pam romance was that long-winded. I mean, it kinda followed too closely the "Friends" formula where Ross was pining over Rachel all of season 1 and then Rachel was pining over Ross all of (or part of?) season 2. With The Office, we primarily saw Jim pining over Pam in season…

I halfway agree about Jim/Karen. I think they should've at least stayed together at the end of season 3. Jim asking Pam out at the end of that season finale was a great moment but, after that moment, the show went on a steady decline (that completely went south once Michael left).

I always thought Michael Bluth and the "blind" lawyer (played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) could've gone the distance.

That does seem to be an overstatement. It started out with low energy, but Andy Daly quickly fixed that, I thought.