Ugh, I am not crazy about the Chandler's mom episode, and you pretty much explained why:  generic manufactured sitcom conflict.

So, maybe I'm wrong, but I believe we have yet to see an entry in this particular TV Classic run that found BOTH episodes being reviewed to be good episodes.  This week, one is just a drag without anything going on other than attention on an annoying character who makes even characters AROUND her intolerable, or at…

Comedy IS subjective, I guess.  I love the "flying lessons" sketch.  I love the "while I play my GRAND PIANO!" line and I love the "'oop's got an 'ole in!" line.  And I love Idle's BALPA spokesman.  I often quote "It's as easy to get these things right as they are easily found in the BALPA handbook." 

But what does Rex Reed think of it?

Send him to reddit!  Send him to reddit!

IIRC, whenever they've done it, they've also owned up to it in a way that incorporated that key fact into their review.  They allowed that what they had seen made them incapable of sitting through more and acknowledged the impact this had on their criticism.  Reed doesn't appear to have done that.

The next time I go to a party, I'm bringing a gallon of milk, and announcing my arrival by holding it aloft and shouting "Who wants milk!?"

The Smothers Brothers weren't natural rebels, but rather mainstream entertainers, Phil?  That could be accurate, but it strikes me as off-base.

The thing is, I like Ed Helms a great deal as a performer, and I even think that Michael ver. 2.0 could have worked.  The notion of Andy coming from a very wealthy family that never thought much of him is a nice bit of extra baggage for him, and he could have had more character-specific reasons for clueless…

Reading these and reading the selected highlights in the comments section really drives home how far this show fell.  I mean, I knew I'd stopped paying attention or caring whether I missed an episode, but — wow.  This show in its best years was SO.  FUCKING.  GOOD.  And it became so empty.

Wow.  The chutzpah in his line about tolerance is just astonishing.  When it's convenient for him, it's a "disagreement."  Not a fight to deprive human beings of their rights, but just a disagreement.  Two sides.  Everyone has a valid opinion.

Any word on whether the film will have some kind of Affleck associated with it?

I'm just going to risk voicing an unpopular view, and say that if Glover isn't on Community as much, I'm going to care less about the show.  He's a very fine comic actor, and his contribution was, from the beginning, one of the chief reasons I enjoyed the programme.

Sideways doesn't really belong in that list, IMO.  The protagonist is an arrested adolescent, maybe, but half the point of the movie is that he's wrestling with being a middle-aged failure whose potential for greatness never actually led to anything.  It's a totally different kind of story, About Schmidt would be a…

I saw They Might Be Giants play in NY once back in 1995, and Cibo Matto opened for them.  The audience did not know WHAT the fuck to make of them, and moved from indifference/ignoring the performance to outright rudeness.  They may have boo'ed, I can't remember.  To be completely honest, while I wasn't one of the rude…

OK, this is gonna drive me nuts.  I can't find anything online for it — how did they imply that Dale knew?

I don't see it that way, Mr. McPickleshitter (yes, the main reason I'm replying is so I can write that, and now I've done it, and it was awesome).

But you have to admit, when a series show-runner, head writer, and creator, starts talking about a spin-off that has so little point that even HE doesn't know what the hell it should be, that's promising… .right?

I always hated that episode, as well, or at least Homer's homophobia in it.  Homer has always been portrayed as amusingly bi-curious ("that depends, is there another way to get this job?" or "sure I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!") and he has no qualms about cross-dressing (he objects…

Hey, I liked that anecdote and I think it worked perfectly.  There IS something noteworthy about how "workmanlike" and un-showy KOTH was, and its distance from the "animation wars" involving the McFarlane clan is a good way to open the piece.
 
Plus, just as a point of analysis, the definitive moment FOR the show…