Me too. Especially given the context it was used in last week.

I thought for half a second that he was going to punch Barry again. But this was so much better.

Either that, or have her actually leave Greendale and terminate her character arc. It'll be a ballsy move, but at least it'll actually mean something.

Honestly, a lot of my enjoyment from Community came from his reviews. And a lot of times I needed his reviews to understand certain episodes as well. I remember Virtual Systems Analysis going right over my head until I read his review and went, 'Oh, that's what they were going for'. Now, after having watched the…

When the inevitable Community spin-off happens, I want it to star the Koogler. Supporting characters will be Hickey, Duncan, Fat Neil, Magnitude, Leonard, and Vicki. This show is so good at creating excellent side characters. Why let them go to waste?

Precisely.

I believe that's the reason this show has such a devoted fan base. Sitcoms in which the characters actually treat each other like real people are rare, because what's funny about that?

Could be the lack of space. His reviews at the AV club sometimes went up to 4000 words. Hard to imagine having that kind of freedom elsewhere.

Me too. I remember reading an interview in which Harmon said that the reason Britta ends up looking so stupid half the time is that he and his writers just find story-lines that make her look that way to be funnier. In other words, she's the writers' very own punching bag.

*Ukulele music* And now the story of a bunch of misfits and the smarmy lawyer who had no choice to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development: Community Edition

I know lots of people who've either watched the show's pilot or tuned into some random episode and not understood it at all who come up to me and ask me what I like about the show so much. Rather than sit down and explain about the difficulty of writing good pilots or about the nature of serialization and running…

Last year I went on a week-long trip in January to Jaipur in India, and I was so determined not to miss that week's Community episode (Cooperative Polygraphy) that I commandeered my father's ipad before the trip. I watched the episode huddled in my cramped and uncomfortable room at my seedy hotel in the wee hours of…

"Britta's space-out was unnecessary—something I'm noticing is common to this season of Community."

Torrents are definitely your best best, although people using ipads seem to be facing no problems with streaming.

Todd VanDerWerff used to do those reviews. He's no longer at the AV club. I do miss his reviews though, even though they sometimes were a bit much. He commented on the fact himself in his review for the first episode of the fifth season, and I suspect its the reason he added the "Just tell us what's funny" section to…

I'm loving the fact that the timing and location of people's viewings of the show are affecting their perceptions of it.

"His long silence when Frankie says she doesn't own a TV and when he thought Britta was Brenda were damn funny"

I loved the end tag. Best part of the episode for me, along with Dean saying "Greendale really needs to get its shit together" (bleeped out profanity = always hilarious).

This might have already been pointed out, but it just occurred to me: the new show Shirley spun off into, The Butcher and the Baker, is about an unlikely pair who come together to solve mysteries, sort of like an Odd Couple. Get it?

I watched the season premiere as soon as it aired (we can still say aired, right?), but I refrained from commenting on it because I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It typically takes me two or three viewings to 'get' any episode of Community, so I wasn't surprised that I didn't laugh out loud even once during the…