I thought this was maybe the best episode the show has done so far. Everything just totally clicked.

This was just some great, quintessential Bob's Burgers. There is nothing like this show on TV which is why it's so annoying that it only airs like, once a fucking month these days.

According to one of the writers on Twitter they've already written next year's Halloween episode, so I think we're good for at least another year.

They really should just switch this and Mulaney. I mean, come on.

SNL relies really heavily on the cue cards and Lorne gets pissed when people deviate from them, which I think is part of the problem. In a looser environment the actors could just sort of cover their ass and make a joke of the whole thing, but on SNL - especially when you're a brand new cast member - the environment…

The whole episode in general was embarrassing. This season is shaping up to be the worst in a long, long time.

I feel like that's how it's been with everyone lately. Just as someone is about to break out, the show stops using them out of nowhere. It happened with Vanessa, Kate, Cecily, Taran, and now seemingly Aidy too.

The fact that it's renewed probably has to with the fact that it regularly outperforms nearly everything else the network airs in a late night timeslot, and costs basically zero to produce. And despite its occasional use as a punching bag, it's still a fairly well-respected show that attracts A-list talent to the…

McKinnon is great and could be the star but they've kind of barely been using her this season, which is strange. Honestly, *everyone* in this cast is at least pretty good (except the Update anchors) but the show seems to have no idea how to use them. Just as people like Aidy Bryant, Vanessa Bayer and Kate McKinnon…

I know "SNL sux now!" is something chanted every year but I really do feel this is the worst the show has been in probably 20 years. There was a consistent competency through the Fey/Meyers era that could sometimes get same-y but at least led to the show being more consistently watchable than it was in most other…

It's a weird situation though because those timeslots are going to The Blacklist after the holidays so anything they move there will just have to move again in 3 months. Maybe they'll just fill it with cheap specials like last year.

It's hard for network TV to compete when you have cable comedies like Broad City, Review, You're the Worst ect. That kind of experimentation would never be allowed on network television. It took a while for cable comedy to outclass network comedy in the way it did with drama, but it's finally happened.

Well, SNL's going to be awkward this week.

I actually think Kat Dennings and Beth Behr are pretty great and were the only things I liked about 2BG in the three episodes I watched. But it seems like most of the well-liked comedy actors are drawn to single-cam, and it's not hard to see why given the different in quality of the two genres in recent years.

I think the problem is that it's caught in between "clever commentary on the artificiality of network sitcoms" and "actual network sitcoms". I think it'd be a more interesting experiment if it were on FX or Comedy Central or something.

I think it's really just that Taxi and Cheers were well-crafted shows that put a lot of time and effort into their product. Most multi-cams today are, simply, not. But that doesn't mean they can't be.

I think the rapid pace works great when the show knows how to do it (Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Happy Endings) but there are definitely a lot of crappy shows that don't have the kind of joke writing skill to pull that off and it just comes off as artificial and hokey (it's one of the reasons I could never get into…

The second 30 Rock live episode was basically just a half-hour of sketch comedy, which is why it worked. The first one tried to be a legitimate multi-camera sitcom and it was awkward, though still better than any actual multi-cams of recent years.

One of the things that this "what happened to the multi-camera sitcom?" debate often misses is that the idea of the popular, univerally beloved sitcom is kind of dying. People always say "but multi-camera sitcoms bring in more viewers!", but that's not really true. You have The Big Bang Theory (multi-cam) and Modern…

If anything, Mulaney has set the multi-camera sitcom back, because plenty of comedy nerds who love John Mulaney are blaming the format for the show's failure. (It's not the fault of the format, and the show could probably become good if it were given the chance, but it won't be).