Obviously, Todd VanDerWerff was having too many conflicts and had to be shown the door in favor of the guy who no doubt reviewed "Just Shoot Me" in the 90s.

In fairness, there are probably enough Simpsons DVD boxed sets now that you could get more seat time listening to those commentaries than you would get in a four year bachelor's and an MFA's worth of film classes.

I don't think they made Andy evil because Ed Helms skipped two months of episodes.

Maybe. They have veered that way. See Robin's episode where she talks to her nonexistent kids.

Andy always climbed. But he hit the top and realized he had nowhere higher he could go. No family wealth. No skills. And his ambition didn't go away. It left him unfulfilled.

Andy always climbed. But he hit the top and realized he had nowhere higher he could go. No family wealth. No skills. And his ambition didn't go away. It left him unfulfilled.

I think that's all true but if you came on this show and sat down trying to reconcile all of the changes and character arcs and where everyone winds up, Andy pretty much has to be the bad guy.

I think that's all true but if you came on this show and sat down trying to reconcile all of the changes and character arcs and where everyone winds up, Andy pretty much has to be the bad guy.

The only way it works is if they're prepared to axe the marriage. Otherwise, it's filler. I hold a tiny ray of hope that this show will go out swinging by breaking up Jim and Pam.

The only way it works is if they're prepared to axe the marriage. Otherwise, it's filler. I hold a tiny ray of hope that this show will go out swinging by breaking up Jim and Pam.

I think it would be considerably ballsier to reveal that it's Jim. This late in a show, you've jumped so many sharks, I think demonizing Jim or killing him off would be one of the few ways you can show some insane artistic flourish.

I think it would be considerably ballsier to reveal that it's Jim. This late in a show, you've jumped so many sharks, I think demonizing Jim or killing him off would be one of the few ways you can show some insane artistic flourish.

Yeah. My thought is that since S4 ends on cliffhangers, Pierce's cliffhanger could be becoming Fred Willard. And maybe they decided to foreshadow that by having him depicted as Willard a couple of more times before that.

Maybe but I think they engineered Abed TV as a running device.

I hope they realize that the wrong one is imaginary here. Or draw the Fight Club parallels.

Personally, I think virtually everything about Barney is exaggerated by Ted and we may be headed for that reveal in the finale.

They did lampshade at least once that the events of the documentary haven't been progressing in realtime. (Jim made a comment once where he suggested that Angela and Dwight first hooked up relatively recently and then fumbled when trying to remember how much time had past.)

They did lampshade at least once that the events of the documentary haven't been progressing in realtime. (Jim made a comment once where he suggested that Angela and Dwight first hooked up relatively recently and then fumbled when trying to remember how much time had past.)

Obviously, you need a point to any send-up but the point I'd probably go for would be a HIMYM send-up as a sequel to "Mixology Certification."

You know what would have been epic? If, instead of having Abed sing the theme again, they actually got BNL to cover the Community theme.