One of the reasons it didn't seem rushed or forced (and I assume Myles will talk about this some in a couple of weeks) is because they had several minutes of extra running time.

You mean "Big Joe," but yeah.

Yeah, in "My Quarantine" (which isn't really a standout episode otherwise, IMO), there's a scene in which Cox and Carla are in separate conversations telling stories about awful dates they'd had, and everyone in earshot of both was able to figure out that they were describing the same date.

Ted and Robin got together at the end of S1, broke up at the end of season 2, and spent one episode as friends-with-benefits in a later season (can't remember if it was 3 or 4), but they didn't play the usual TV game of "This casual relationship suddenly stopped being casual," so it never felt like they ever seriously…

Well, Molly was around for eight contiguous episodes at the beginning of season 4, and then for one more later that year, but she was only floated as a romantic interest for J.D. in two of those episodes - and for various reasons, that relationship never really materialized.

I loved Kylie. The episode in which that relationship ended was one of my favorites, too, at least in part because it was a relationship that was easy to feel invested in.

Yes, it has changed. It's gotten dramatically more pandering, and dramatically louder.

Good luck, man. I wish I had the cajones to take the plunge.

"Xena can't fly!"
"I told you, I'M NOT XENA!"

That was kind of a hand-wave, but it's still not realistic, since the court had no way of knowing that the trial wouldn't run longer than two weeks (or however long Veronica gets for break).

1-5 are valid (especially #2 - good Lord how that irritated me!), but #6 wouldn't work because Leo wound up with a buyer whose only interest was in erasing the tapes. In fact, Leo outright says that he would have changed his mind, but then he found out that the buyer didn't want to air or distribute the tapes, and…

I hated "One Angry Veronica" not for the plot twists (which, now that you mention it, are pretty problematic), but for its completely boneheaded depiction of the legal system. A full-time high school student can easily get out of jury duty if she wants to.

Hey, there was a pretty prominent Cam+Jay plot in "Coal Digger," which remains the gold standard for this show in my eyes. "Express Christmas" was okay. It wasn't great, but I didn't hate it as much as Noel seemed to.

Needs more SHUT THE HELL UP!

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True, Turk's spiritual side is pretty much abandoned after this episode. I don't begrudge sitcoms for letting go of character developments that didn't work, though. Things like that really bug some people, but it's just a minor criticism with me, because I know most shows take a little while to get a feel for their…

Oh, I might have. Sorry about that. I kind of have white-guy prosopagnosia sometimes, but it's mainly because there's only about four types of male faces they ever seem to use in TV shows like this. I don't know anything that hasn't been in either an episode or a commercial yet.

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Because late-season Scrubs gave early-season Scrubs a bad name.