Pete is indeed a fascinating mix of awfulness and merit.

Lane!  When God closes a door, he opens a window…and through that window one finds a secretary more to one's tastes.

The cartoonish or zany tone still rubs me the wrong way, but I'm very glad that I now have this reading/interpretive framework to make some sense of it.  Thank you.

You clearly exist in a dark timeline in which Parks' characterization is superior to Community's.  I'm going to thank my lucky stars that that's not the case here in the prime timeline, as I have a candy cigarette and check on the toilet olives.

To say nothing of the Cardinals.

Thought-up in proximity to a fax machine.

But they don't all call attention to the fact that they are being normal like this one did.

smh
(This means, in the contemporary argot, that I am "shaking my head" in disbelief/disgust.)

…so good.

I remember hating it.

That was the sound of one hand clapping, if you know what I mean.

Danger zone.

I think you're assuming here that naturalism should be the goal of the special effects, dialogue, and acting.  If that were the case they would indeed be ludicrous, laughable, etc. but it's not.  To praise it you'd have to be on board with the camp, melodrama aesthetic it's going for.  If you can take that, I think it…

I love that sketch, so let me refresh everyone's memories:  Norm MacDonald played Rod Serling at the beginning and end of the sketch.  In the sketch the only one who is horrified is the lone female, Molly Shannon, while Will Ferrell, Jim Breuer, and Chris Kattan are all overcome by how hot the non-pig-faced Pamela…

More like, pal NO IMPSEST, am I right?

Yeah, pretty much.

Mmm, that's good misplaced outrage.

It's a palomino!

This seems like an appropriate place to make a joke about the fact that the actors playing high-schoolers on Glee are actually, like, thirty.  …

I'm watching to see if Jean Dujardin can give an Emmy-winning performance as the European Comedic Actor No One Realized Existed Before Now and No One Will Pay Attention to After the Oscars Are Over.  He's giving a fresh take on the role which, of course, was originated by Roberto Benigni.