Troy said he hadn't seen him since he went crazy in the woods. And they never mentioned it again or even showed him going crazy in the woods, and just sort of pretended he didn't exist. It's not as if he's an old man with some personal demons who they're supposed to care about as a friend. I mean, if he was that,…

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I didn't understand why they had to sing, other than because they were puppets, and what do puppets do? They sing, of course!

@tlachtga:disqus She definitely said they were locked in the store overnight. I didn't hear the extent of Troy's and Annie's confessions perfectly, but I vividly remember that. Because I remembered thinking, "Why did Shirley have her kids at the grocery store 10 minutes before closing?" I suppose the other option was…

I suppose you could argue that they couldn't have gone in a hot air balloon with the actors rather than the puppets, but since I never really felt the hot air balloon idea was necessary or even remotely made any sense, they could have just cut that part and come up with an actual activity that people would do in their…

How have Shirley's kids not been taken from her yet? First she spends an entire weekend at an Inspector Spacetime convention when she should be spending it with her kids, and now we find out she left her kids to be locked overnight in a supermarket.

The first episode really suffered from the shitty Dave storyline. I'm not usually one to pile on to the Dave hate, but I found him infuriating in that episode, to the point where I just wished he'd get hit by his own food truck. He's buying sandwiches from the guy who stole his truck? I suppose that's classic Dave,…

I actually liked that. It made me think that they'd spent so much time talking that they just got up, got some pretzels, and came back to the conversation. That Tran, he can talk all day

The returns of both Tran and Prank Sinatra are never a bad thing. Winston should have burst into the restaurant and hit Nick with a ski.

First place mom is hot, but has an attitude. Doesn't date "gruff, hyper-masculine conservatives." Second place mom is someone weird usually, like a Chinese mom or a geologist.

I suppose they're still bound by their belief that he is the one true king. But I imagine after 2 or 3 wildfire bombings, that's gotta wear off.

Nick Miller from New Girl is a shockingly accurate portrayal of my current life. Attended law school, didn't get out of it what I thought I would, became a young curmudgeon. I don't have a Jess in my life, though.

Todd drops one TGIF reference, but misses the other obvious one - that wasn't a Smart Car, it was a BMW Isetta, the vehicle of choice of one Stephen Q. Urkel.

I'm in agreement with Todd about this episode. I didn't laugh once, and I also didn't particularly care about the outcome. Maybe it's because I don't really understand the unreasonable attachment to the study room, as if it's as much an actual member of the study group as Troy or Shirley or Jeff. If you can't have the…

"Neither of us is Tom Cruise, or the other guy. We're both Iceman!"

And that says it all about them - they couldn't be more different, and yet, that's why their friendship works so well.

I haven't. I've seen it recommended by a lot of people here in the comments, so I'll have to check it out.

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus I just put something together that I can't believe it took me this long to figure out. Remember the conversation with Zoe and the other female reporter, the one who hated her and then didn't hate her without any explanation for why that changed? When she told Zoe about…

@avclub-29501df08e5d9ae59e432e4f188d3735:disqus Emily Blunt? I like the way you think, my friend. You must be French

@Scrawler2:disqus  @avclub-e14267dedd4e1d0cc0093bc13643fd59:disqus I agree that Frank's power isn't a big deal, especially considering some of the other problems with the show, especially the related problem of the character of the president. I mean, this guy is basically a spineless pushover, isn't he? He has no…

@avclub-e14267dedd4e1d0cc0093bc13643fd59:disqus The burnout of Peter Russo was incredily problematic to me. Not that he burned out so hard, or even that he relapsed at all, because both would be plausible. But that it was so easy to get him to fall off the wagon. All it took was a hot chick inviting him to her room…