A lot of people have already commented on the difference between the Florida A-story and the Scranton B-story, but it really is a microcosm of how dry the well is for the Scranton branch these days.  The jokes were lazy and unfunny (Pam is fat, Andy got hit by a pre-teen girl, Kevin is dumb, Toby is the victim of…

I'm glad that the interviewees had far more interesting things to say about women in comedy than the interviewer did.  I mean, seriously, do people have to write "Is it OK for women to be funny now?" every single time they talk about funny women?  I was only a journalism minor; did they teach that in one of the…

So they did an entire season-long story line about the ethical implications of breaking a work policy against office relationships, but they think the legal and ethical issues of an entire city department staff serving as a coworker's campaign staff can be solved by stepping outside to take a call?  I mean, I know…

We're Americans and we know her from Doctor Who, but that's hardly how she made her name in the UK.  I mean, there's something called "The Catherine Tate Show," for crying out loud.

Margaret keeps writing that this show is getting better; I think it's plateaued or regressed since its early episodes.  Did I ratchet up my expectations too much, or does anyone else feel this way? 

Seth Meyers is unfit to anchor Update because he's unfunny and terrible.  It doesn't help that, eight months before the election, Update has already become a weekly Obama 2012 segment.  It's tolerable to be a partisan shill if you're funny; Seth is not funny.

Just so you're aware, that means that Chris Brown would have mangled Rihanna's genitals, because by all accounts (including her own), she attacked him first. 

He's a mobster in Suicide Kings, a movie just about everyone in my dorm owned 10 years ago because it was always the best thing in the $5 DVD bin at Wal-Mart.

It should be a fireable offense to be an unfunny head writer of a comedy show.

We hate Rabin.  Not in the way we rag on Sims - Sims is like the kid you pick on but you really like, and you just want him to be better.  We know Rabin will never get better, and we really, truly dislike him.

It's a huge stretch to say it had no marketing.  I would say that, after Up All Night, Prime Suspect may have been NBC's most-promoted show.  So well promoted, in fact, that I hated it before it debuted.  I bet it averaged five promos per early season Sunday Night Football telecast, which is by far NBC's best…

To synthesize the responses: I saw it after it was popular, and therefore hated it. 

Can we make it a rule on AV Club that, if someone is referred to as a "creepy weirdo" in an article, and the same article mentions Roman Polanski, that Polanski must be the one called a creepy weirdo?  He's a sex offender who defended himself from charges of drugging a raping a teenager by declaring "Everyone loves…

Who would have thought, halfway through the season, that Zooey Deschanel is the least interesting thing about the show?  And that Schmidt is the only one the writers seem to have fun writing for?

The political jokes have been terrible for a while now.  Even in '08, there were only a few funny Palin moments, and the primary sketches about how badly the media wanted Obama to win were at OK, but other than that, it was just Hammond doing a terrific impression with no good jokes.  Since then, it's been bad…

"Interracial" only means black-white in TV land.  AV Club land, too, apparently. 

Soccer fans have to make the game about something other than the game, because soccer sucks.

The Leslie/Ron relationship is actually a microcosm of why P&R is good, but not nearly as good as Community.  Ron and Leslie have such obviously different views of the world that they often clash with each other.  When they do, Leslie always has to be right, because Amy Poehler is the star of the show, and the writers…

I'm probably late to the party with this insult, but hasn't this show been consistently bad enough for us to call it Two and a Half Broke Girls?  Not quite as bad as Big Bang Theory as Two and a Half Nerds, but the titles are already closer.

Thank you, Todd, for pointing out the central idiocy of shows that purport to be about men being masculine: they still portray every man as an idiot and every woman as superior in every way.  Which, of course, contributes to the feminization of society that these shows claim to oppose.