I'm not understanding how your biggest complaint is that sitcom characters talk like they're in a sitcom. The show didn't set itself up docu-soap style like Modern Family; in the pilot episode, a wedding is broken up by a guy on roller blades.

It's a visual medium, stop with this Dinner with Andre bullshit!

No, I understand that, but there are so many New York references that are absolutely perfect and the sets just take me out of it. I know, completely unrealistic standards being projected onto a half hour comedy.
(Also, I adore your name, now I have that damn Stick Stickly song stuck in my head.)

The obnoxiously nauseating way they talk about Marilyn? Also completely spot on.

I don't understand how a show gets so many Long Island references spot on, but has the least convincing NYC streets on television.

If the show sold itself to me in it's $10,000,000 worth of ads as a Musical Soap Opera, I would have been on board. But it didn't. It sold itself as a drama about musical theatre, and I haven't seen that since the the pilot. I was hoping this would replace Glee next year on my DVR, but I may not make space for either…

Personally, I adore them, but can understand how they're not everyone's cup of tea.
I think they're really more actresses than comediens, which is why they don't do the "on" schtick that most of the comediens on DLM do. I've never seen or heard of either of them doing standup.
Pregnant Women are Smug, Gay Boyfriend and…

I disagree, I think that Phil would still have some sort of "shit, my children are becoming adults and I can't protect them from the dangers of the world (pregnancy, STD's, heartbreak, what have you) anymore."

I'm so glad they reworked her character. Alex is so good as a less-hippy Phoebe than as the Rachel they tried to make the character in season one.
And as one of the few people who was actually upset that Flash Forward was cancelled, I want to see Dave become a more interesting character. Of the six, he's the one I…

While the Obama Anger Translator sketch from episode one was much better (just thinking about it has me laughing), the way Keegan kicked his leg over the Presidential chair had me dying. The physical comedy in that sketch is what makes it.

Newsday out on Long Island used to (it might still do, I don't live out there anymore) have a section in the movie listings where they actually broke down the ratings, so they'd say if it's appropriate for kids over the age of 6, if it's a movie for the whole family, or even if it's a movie that adults would want to…

Is there another organization that has legitimate "power" who is as equally ass backwards as the MPAA?

A lot of schools could show this movie in the classroom or during an assembly if it were PG-13.