I was a HUGE Karen and Jim fan. I didn't know the term "shipping" when it aired but I totally shipped them. Karen > Pam in every conceivable way. The chip hunt, her dumping the shots while Andy and Jim get drunk on their late night, her singing "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" in Benihana Christmas, her love…

Grief Counseling gets an A for me if for no other reason that it sets up the callback in The Return where Oscar and Jim are talking and Oscar asks where Dwight is.
Creed: You didn't hear? Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird.
Jim: Pretty sure none of that's real.
Creed: You're not real man!

It's "Hi-Mim" in our house.

"Michael Schur & Co. won’t sell out everything we know about April for a cheap joke" -

I missed that, and that makes me very happy. At the very least they've nailed the callbacks this season.

Yeah, I really enjoyed that part. I felt like they did a good job of putting to bed the Robin/Ted possibility. That speech was pretty great. And now he gets to meet the mother.

Maybe they could have given us more, but I've really enjoyed the flash forwards from the wedding that show Ted and the Mother at different points - his proposal, their first date, the dinner where they become an "old married couple" while fretting about her imminent demise…

It really depends on 1) how limited the item's pressing is 2) how many the store orders 3) how many RSD sends the store and 4) how many people in front of you want it.

For what it's worth, if there's price gouging you can report the store (also if they sell more than 1 copy to a customer, sell at midnight etc). Of course if it's a place you frequent you might have to drive further for RSD next year if they aren't allowed to participate. But not like there's zero recourse.

If I remember correctly, that's the part of the show that threw napalm on the theory that she is dead. In rewatching a while back after hearing the theory, the only reason it held up is because of how genuinely sad Ted seemed in the monologue.

Yep, that's one more piece of the theme in that episode that all came together at the end.

You clearly have never heard me in conversation with my in-laws.

also think about the other things in the episode that go along with that theme. Her talking about him and his stories because "life moves forward" and the tie in to the gang just enjoying the time they have together…

It's like Lost - they had no idea how long the show would be on or what kind of meandering they'd do in the meantime, but the always knew the final shot from the beginning.

I was surprised how it made me feel too - after it was over I actually thought "man, that was a really well written episode and it made me sad".

You are. It is worthless.

It is a terrifying thought to me that this movie in any way shaped anyone's idea of racism in the real world. It's like relying on the Village (which is a far superior movie to Crash, at the very least more realistic) to teach you viable survival skills.

"No one's idea of a prestige film" except for Oprah who (my now wife informed me) said it belongs on every dvd shelf "next to Citizen Kane".

If you take it simply as a dark comedy and not some misguided treatise on breaking free of suburban malaise or whatever it's hard to deny it's an entertaining flick.

I thought the massage was bus windows are racist?