NHL playoffs are all on networks of NBC, not ESPN. If you're going to be lazy, at least do it right.

To the "gender is a social construct" crowd, yes, gendered is bad. Now, this is a fairly small group of people, but there is almost complete overlap between them and the SJWs. And it's that same group that sometimes makes AV Club feel more like a left-wing hate site than a silly little place where we can read and…

Yeah, I was impressed by that too. It demonstrates the differences between The Middle and Parks and Recreation, which I gave up on a season or two ago. I remember them referring to a vet school in Bloomington, presumably because P&R didn't want to spend money licensing the name for IU. Of course, there is only one…

The "documentation of life in the 60s" is mostly Matt Weiner watching Rankin-Bass specials and imagining what life was like then, I think. It's a great show, but at its worst, it's like the Baby Boomer Santa scene from Community in that it indulges the "historical vanity" of one generation inventing everything good. …

Erik got one thing right: this had no reason to exist. But the end product in no way justified its creation; it was pretty bad.

I'm not sure when exactly I started watching regularly, probably in season three. It really is a very relatable family show. It's consistently funny and incisive, but rarely mean spirited or preachy. I'm glad Will writes these reviews, and writes them well. And I'm glad The Middle has a somewhat strong syndication…

I'm also glad it gets some love here, but let's not exaggerate how much. At 10 am eastern, this season finale review still has only two percent of the comments as the article a couple of weeks ago about how you shouldn't be friends with anyone who disagrees with you about anything.

And there was no effort to suggest that there aren't massive lines for everything, although I'm not sure Disney actually sees that as a bad thing.

It would have been less off putting if an actual Disney commercial hadn't opened every commercial break. But that's not the show's fault. I mean, being able to use Disney World instead of ZippyFunLand is one of the perks of being on ABC, right?

After a decade of being everyone’s favorite laughingstock except when it comes to sitcoms, NBC is officially no longer THE MOST terrible.

"Those kids aren't that great" was my favorite line of the night. And it had some stiff competition.

I actually think 7:30 is a better slot than 8:30 was; it now won't have to compete with the Sunday night game on NBC, but still might have some residual NFL viewers. The concern should be that the ratings slipped from last season to this season, but we'll see if that trend can be remedied.

I'm sorry, are you suggesting that the criminal justice system is biased
against women? Because I think the 10-to1 male-to-female inmate ratio,
and just about any other statistic on arrests, prosecutions,
sentencing, or incarceration would disagree with you.

This! I don't mind if people disagree with me religiously, as long as they shut up! I don't mind if someone disagrees with me politically, as long as they shut up! I don't mind if people like different music than I do, so long as I never have to hear it. If I hear it, though, we're no longer friends!

Well since atheism is a religion, I'm only mildly fascinated.

Well there was also the pilot, with Abed talking about it being like The Breakfast Club, quoting the Breakfast Club, and then the episode ending with its tribute to the late John Hughes while playing Don't You (Forget About Me).

Yeah, I couldn't pinpoint just what joke Todd was referring to. There are plenty to choose from in that episode.

Not plausible. Everyone's attracted to Alison Brie.

His scene is my favorite of the episode, with Neil stacking things unnecessarily and saying, "Monday? That rings a bell."

And it perfectly encapsulates Todd's take on the show as a whole: it was riffing on a common TV trope, but moved the show forward in the process. Plus, what must the writers' room have been like when they were pitching nothing but punch lines?