He's also phenomenally creepy as the TV repairman in the "What's In The Box?" episode of "The Twilight Zone" and very sweet as Burt the traveling salesman in an old Andy Griffith Show episode. Any Andy Griffith where Andy gets to antagonize mean ol' Ben for being a dick is pretty great.

He's also phenomenally creepy as the TV repairman in the "What's In The Box?" episode of "The Twilight Zone" and very sweet as Burt the traveling salesman in an old Andy Griffith Show episode. Any Andy Griffith where Andy gets to antagonize mean ol' Ben for being a dick is pretty great.

Chicken Boo is the best thing any of us ever have seen or ever will see. Real talk.

Chicken Boo is the best thing any of us ever have seen or ever will see. Real talk.

Jake: "Where do you live?"

Actually it's explained reasonably well on Seinfeld how Kramer gets by — the bet at the racetrack, the coffee table book of coffee tables, the fact that he's always mooching food off of Jerry, etc. It was also established that Paul from "Mad About You" keeps an apartment in NYC as a reminder of his bachelorhood, and…

I don't understand why a comedy show can't make sense or have continuity in your estimation. Is there something about the comedic format that prevents its exemplars from having those characteristics? Certainly there are comedies that don't care about continuity and revel in their inanity, but Parks & Rec has never…

Was that a shot at Sheldon from BBT obsessing over trains?

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It was 5:30 in the morning, and you had RAMBLED ON for EIGHT. TEEN. PAGES!

Yeah, I see what you mean. I'm probably biased because I've never liked something so constricting around my fingers; perhaps it's different when you're married. But it's probably just an accident in the show since they're clearly making an (awkward) effort not to show his hand at all, and I doubt less eagle-eyed…

I didn't say it was OK, I'm saying at least it makes some sense to me, unlike trolling a board to run down a sitcom someone admits to watching irregularly just because this week it happened to feature certain recordings of the Star Wars trilogy as a plot point. It's fine not to like it, but picking on it when you…

My favorite Ice King reading is still:

The narrator should've put someone in what's known as a Tasmanian Footlock. They wouldn't be able to get out of it.

He does seem to go out of his way to be a dick sometimes, but for the most part I've found him a pretty standard authority figure and even empathize with him sometimes. I mean, Mordecai and Rigby fuck around ALL THE TIME. He's just trying to keep the park in functioning shape and not only do M&R avoid the most basic…

It's pretty clearly established, I think, that the episode grades, variant and oftentimes seemingly arbitrary as they are, are generally created on a scale particular to that show. If you're comparing a B+ for HIMYM with a B+ for another show (the reference point to which HIMYM's grade would be "incongruous"), you…

If not an oversight, I mean, I'm not married, but I'm under the impression that those men who are don't necessarily wear their rings all the time, right? Barney's watching Star Wars with his buddies (and presumably Ted's baby girl), it's not quite a situation where he would say, "Oh man, gotta make sure I'm wearing…

The aspects of Troy discussed in Abed's e-mail weren't all that personal (it's not like we've never seen him cry, especially around Levar Burton or chloroformed people), but Abed's cynical willingness to exploit them was. Conversely, Troy's text to Abed would cut a normal person right to the bone, but Abed, of all…

He's trapped in the caaaaaaave of frozen memories!

Abed's more like Germany. Ambitious and misunderstood.