Oh god no, Elena was a self involved cunt, more so than Nancy and less oblivious to it than Big Suze. She was the hottest though.

He was an umbrella salesman wasn't he?

Bit late with my reply here.

British comedy shows can end on incredibly sour depressing notes. The Christmas specials are drama and can therefore have a happy ending. Seriously.

Neil is a monster though. All the manangement speak and smugness, the attention seeking charity dance stuff he's every bit as dickish as Brent but he couches it in this sort of faux caring, cool relaxed guy when he's probably closer to Patrick Bateman than anyone else on the show. Hell, even Finchy who is a piece of…

And this is where my overly snarky (sorry) original comment comes in. Framing your criticism around the Greek or Shakespearean manifestation of comedy when talking about Community is to make tenuous links and look for barely existent parallels and then fault the show when it doesn't live it up those expectations.

Ok Todd, I get that as it's subjective the scope to criticise is limited but my question then is - what other criteria really matter in comedy? Sure a truly great comedy examines the human condition and can allow us to learn about other experiences and pov's and the very best Community episodes do this but, and I…

I agree the show isn't as funny as it was and Todd's writing good criticism about that. But to say you don't think a comedy should be judged on how much it makes you laugh is to literally miss the point of comedy.

"I don’t really like judging comedy on the 'how much does it make you laugh' scale"

Fuck BotSW

I know! This is the bit that makes the film the stupid turd it is rather than the fun empty piece of trash it should be. She's all taken with his gruff manliness not like her pussy boy husband who's a pussy because he thinks beating the shit out of innocent people is probably a bad idea!
Nick Love really is a scumbag.

Aaaaaaaargh, my eyes, what the fuck have you done AV Club? Burn it with fire!

Tha fuck have you done you cunts? Put it back, put it back now. Bah!

You make 1. Maps/YControl and make make room for Rich in the other 11 and we have a deal. :-)

I hope no-one thinks The Yeah Yeah Yeahs doing this is a bad thing.

Huh? Pin or Rich are far better examples of what makes the album a classic.

I see your Calder and raise you a Rachel Khoo

Ah!

The weak and the wicked.

You wanted to be part of a wife swapping foursome when you were a kid? Well… ok then.