Watch the back half of Season 3 a lot and then watch this episode.

I think if you're going to commit to the show, you have to handwave past the flaws of the last 10 episodes and treat this as the follow-up to ten good episodes that you never saw.

The junk checking was a nod to A Monologue for Three, a youtube video that Danny Pudi did that had bodyswapping in it. (And junk checking.)

This is everything that "Conventions of Space and Time" got wrong, subverted here. The key to the show is that everyone has lives, stories, and coping mechanisms of their own constantly going on in the background.

Just saw it. Okay, I'd even move this out of the minus range into solid A episode.

But it was Christmas last week and Jeff had one class before graduation. Is this some kind of magical year round class that has finals in December and then makes people do projects in April?

If it took place after Christmas, why are they still in history?

Drew Carey couldn't swim with the sharks.

So. Thought.

My understanding is that the documentary is not what we've been watching but is something like a 5 hour non-linear cut of what we've been watching. The sitcom is composed of the footage that the world will never see.

By the way, did anyone else feel that the Dean was a standing for Duncan here, that the lack of Duncan was lampshaded by Troy puppet, and that Duncan would have improved the episode? I'd have rather they introduced a psych prof or brought back the theater prof than throw the Dean into the therapist role.

So this episode gets to be Hitler? We aren't going to take a vote?

And the Dean SHOULD care about a faculty member handing out answers. He can be goofy, wacky, zany but even if everyone else is tolerant and loving, if the Dean is beyond acting like a Dean, the show has no narrative teeth left.

She didn't have sex with the prof. She let him touch her feet.

The inkwell manufacturing companies needed something to do with their inventory, so they started selling ink specifically for dipping women's hair in or throwing at them.

Jake is clearly Fred from Scooby Doo.

Arguably, with some fun moments. But they're Voyager's highest highs and lowest lows. Hence why I think you could ignore the non-time travel episodes for the most part.

Alternatively, compile a list of episodes from TOS on that were spinoff pilots and review those.

My advice, on the whole:

I love Green Wing but I don't see it as the same show. Granted, it'd have been brilliant if they'd looked at getting Vicky Pile as a showrunner