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Milton Waddams
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I'm glad cast members are still optimistic, ECN.  The Thursday comedies certainly seem like Community's closest peers, but the move to Friday could be OK, what with the lower standards and lack of a ratings monster (or two) to compete with.  The Thursday block, on the other hand, will now feature the walking corpse of

Something I have ruminated on from time to time is the fact that Community suffers from budget restrictions far more than its peers.  If you doubled Parks and Rec's budget, or The Office's, or even 30 Rock, would those shows change in significant ways?  Two are mockumentaries, so they would use the same style

I concur.  I think that this was a very funny episode ("Stalking Dad, quietly!" was my favorite line no one has mentioned yet), but I felt like there were more jokes that didn't land than usual, and perhaps a few too many trips to the well of Gene shouting nonsense.  It had a - dare I say - Seth Macfarlane quality of

I find it absurd to say the banks "have to carry most of the blame."  They were snake oil salesmen; the investors were the ones who bought snake oil.  And in the case of the public entities, they bought snake oil with other people's money, all the while knowing that they didn't understand what they were doing.  A fool

But here's the thing I took away from the apartment scene: they were not in the timeline where Jeff got the pizza.  I had assumed that to be the case because it was the last one they showed, but Abed said "I should have let Jeff get the pizza," or something to that effect.  So the question is, what timeline are they

I only saw the last hour, although that is probably the portion I would have found most interesting anyway.  I was quite disappointed; this was below Frontline's normally high standards, as the review last week mentioned.  I was most disappointed to see Frontline take such an obvious position and try so hard to

Goldman Sachs was the second-largest donor to the Obama campaign in 2008, and investment banks were three of the top six.  He's been pretty cozy with them, as were most members in congress - remember Chris Dodd's status as a "friend of Angelo" that got him a sweetheart deal with Countrywide before its demise?

It did seem as though they were trying to make her unhappy or unfulfilled by her own success.  This might have been easier for the show to pull off if she hadn't been trying to convince us/Don of how much she loved her work last week.

I can think of no better way to undercut the rest of your comment than by opening with "on Bill Maher's show."  That's like telling us about something you learned in a YouTube comment section.  There might be some people peddling legitimate information there, but the environment fosters stupidity.

I still like this show, but all I was really thinking during the debate scenes was that the other candidates would have to be at least as ridiculous as they were for Leslie to win.  Perhaps I'm interpreting Pawnee as slightly to close to reality, but her campaign is just one scandal and ethics violation after

You just defined communism.  You should send it to Houghtron Mifflin.

And what race are most of the people you hear use the N-word?  Does that make it inoffensive? 

And it probably never occurred to @zebbart:disqus or many other people that "redneck" is a racist term.  It was a slur against poor white farmers who had to work outside themselves, thus getting sunburns on their necks.  So it was more class-based than race-based, but it certainly was only used as a slur against

That is what she said - something like, tell me when I'm supposed to be your co-worker and when I'm supposed to be your wife.  That's a danger with any romantic relationship at work, where the lines between business and personal become so blurry.  But here's the thing: They went to HoJo's on business.  He was both her

I don't think Troy appreciated that Inception broke its own made up rules about dying in dreams withing dreams during its opening sequence. 

The real question, though, @avclub-6aea902f69bd95b8c8c4b81a338b5ec3:disqus , is how you feel about what a practitioner of Black Liberation Theology eats with his family in Indonesia.  Because honestly, this thread couldn't have gone better.  Everyone intentionally ignores the Obama dog eating to focus on how evil it

They couldn't have timed an episode where a politician is accused of being a dog murder any better.  The Obama dog-eating meme is by far the most enjoyable part of the political season so far.

I really don't want to start a thing here, but it's bizarre to me that Fieg, who created a show without a single flat character, would have somehow caricatured George H.W. Bush in his mind to be to the right of Ayn Rand.  How politically insulating are Detroit and LA (and the entertainment industry)? 

I think they already have done posthumous reviews of Freaks and Geeks, haven't they?  Or am I confusing it with Undeclared?

Dwight shouting "Haulin' cube!" was my favorite moment of the show.