Excellent point. Total failure of basic arithmetic, there.

Look, even if you have the *best time ever* watching this show when you're high as a kite, you can't give every single episode an 'A' or 'A-' grade.
And I say that having watched and enjoyed this show immensely. In the warm embrace of total sobriety, no less. But this constant stream of stellar grades is giving me the…

"A few times during each season, an episode of Family Guy reminds me that at its best the show functions simply as a joke delivery device, with some plot connective tissue and familiar players to carry out the bits."

Completely agree. Though Sims makes a good point - in practical terms, Alex and Dave's zaniness doesn't really suffer change between seasons when they're together and when they're not - I still enjoyed the idea that one of the underlying dynamics of the show was about those two growing into each other as a couple. So…

That's all fair. And sometimes you just don't connect with something. I'm beginning to think - considering the comments - that maybe if I try again and settle into it a bit more the subtleties will come through. There are shades of what you said - for instance, the ambiguous nature of some of the warm endings, which…

I'd not been following the Middle, but I watched the first three episodes of the 2nd season this past weekend entirely on the strength of these reviews. I don't understand it. This is at best a pedestrian comedy featuring some veteran sitcom actors; the beats are predictable, the music is hokey. The best features are…

Look, I'm not so impatient that I need it today, or this week, or this month, or this spring even.
But could someone at the AV Club please post something in 2013 about why the turnover? It could be something as simple as, Hey, as friends and colleagues a few of us realized it was time for a change. I'm not looking for…

But Armageddon was awesome. Totally cried as an adolescent next to my (also tearful) brother and Uncle. The ending was brilliant. Hell, everything in that movie was brilliant.

Could anyone explain why the Meg-hate is 'ugly and useless'? I can understand that it's beating a dead horse, even though I still find some Meg gags hilarious (like her appearances in the three Star Wars episodes) long after I'd ceased laughing at that kind of joke.

Bye Scott! Good luck!

Stephen Fry - great pick. He can doa  sitcom and the tonight show.

Loooooooooooooooooooool at the idea that Billy Crystal's no good but Billy Bob Thornton is 'always dependable'.

Wait…Lauer's awesome, and Jeopardy! is OK - and nothing without Trebek, anyway. If it dies, it dies.

Tip of the cap to you Sonia.

I don't know. Truly, TBBT is one of those shows that's too irritating and depressing to have on in the background. It hurts.

Agreed. I would have loved it if they pulled it after Season 3. Great job producing a witty, buoyant show, guys. You even managed to smuggle more than a few genuine emotional beats into a slickly produced network luvvie. You'll go down as one of the most fun shows of the 2000s. Nothing but love for ya.

There are so many things to say about this that I'm overwhelmed.

Do NOT compare this show to The Big Bang Theory. TBBT - where smart goes to die.

But…Killam is awful.

Wait a second - so you know Tam Lin but not Oisin? What kind of weird alternative mythical storytelling household did you grow up in? Yeats-less to boot.