There is a difference between being shamed for something like weight or sexual orientation, things that are not in your control (and no, not all fat people are lazy assholes who like to eat Cheetos, some people have actual conditions which make it hard to control their weight) and shame for doing something shitty. I…

I like how "mental health" has become a go-to excuse for things we don't feel comfortable dealing with, as if it's just an easy and explainable solution to everything.

I always wished The CW got into comedy. I feel like shows like Happy Endings or Community could've done really well there.

You could see Simpsons DNA in all 4 of the NBC sitcoms - 30 Rock had the breakneck joke pace, Community had the genre mixing, Parks & Rec had the world building and The Office had the character studies.

I don't really mind that 30 Rock is disconnected from reality, it's part of the appeal. The biggest problem with S4 for me was just that the show felt like it wasn't really sure where it wanted its characters to go anymore, but the last 3 seasons (S7 especially) really reversed that.

The Fox block is the closest any network has come to replicating it for sure…Bob's Burgers is fantastic, New Girl is often great but inconsistent, Brooklyn 99 is consistently very good but not quite top level. (I wouldn't put Mindy up there, although it has its supporters.) The different to me, though, is that NBC's…

1. Parks & Rec's "Lil Sebastian" is probably my favorite season finale. 30 Rock had the best series finale of the bunch, but Community is very close behind.

Something about this show has always reminded me of Community, and I've been trying to figure out what it is…but I think it's this. Both shows seem to share this worldview. Which explains why I love them both so much.

Which is why I find it weird that HBO is really just as liberal with their ax as any other cable network. Netflix seems to have a pretty strong "if people like it, we won't cancel it" policy so far (even Hemlock Grove got 3 fucking seasons.)

There were no ads on the Roku app either. So basically it was a free streaming service that didn't have ads for a large chunk of its audience. And they wonder why it didn't make any money…?

Basically. They tried to build a brand but the only brand they built was "that shitty service I have to use to watch Community now."

Netflix's entire model is based on building a brand that will lead to people shelling out money for their service. I am guessing the individual vieweship of their shows means jack shit. That's why the people who complain that Netflix doesn't release ratings are kind of missing the point.

I don't think it was totally a viewership issue - I'm pretty sure viewership of individual shows matters very little to streaming services (or at least less than it does for network & cable). It' seems more about that there was no way to generate revenue from such a major product, considering Yahoo is free unlike the…

Yahoo is a shit service but the final season was actually really good!

Yeah, and I bet Yahoo probably felt they had to spend network-level money on Community or else the #1 thing everyone would've been talking about was how cheap it looked. (It was still like the #3 thing everyone talked about, and it didn't actually look any cheaper.)

$50 million isn't even that extreme, I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that Community cost like $2 million an episode on NBC, and sitcoms typically cost less than dramas.

They also didn't really bother to promote their shows that much, or make a streaming service that wasn't garbage. It really felt like they just picked up a bunch of shows and were like "eh, we'll figure it out!".

I thought this definitely improved from her last, good-but-not-great special.

Her topics are similar, I agree, but I thought this was a lot funnier than her last special, which I enjoyed overall but was pretty hit-or-miss. It just seemed a little bit more mature and a little bit…weirder? And more specific in its targets/intentions. Mostly Sex Stuff seemed very much out of the '00s Opie and…

I do improv and I pretty much make it a rule to never invite anyone to any of my shows. If they offer to come then that's fine, but improv by inexperienced people can be terrible so very easily that I never want to force it on anyone.