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It's pretty obvious the final three are going to be Emilio, Seth Aaron and Maya (barring any huge fuckups), but I gotta tell ya, that is one hell of an underwhelming final three. This show needs to take a year off and backpack through Europe or something.

Meh.
I always thought comedies were supposed to make one laugh.

Eh.
Honestly, I won't miss it. I'm a huge fan of Stella and The State but I think this show really lacked the spark that made those previous shows eternally rewatchable. I watched every episode of M&MHI and never have had a desire to watch them again. Unfunny.

I dig it.
This record sounds like Prince deciding to make a Flaming Lips record. Or vice versa. Either way, lots of good tunes. Gets a bit thin toward the end, but the high points are pretty goddamn high.

Really, AV Club?
You're reviewing an album that came out in July 2009 and has already sold hundreds of thousands of copies (and has a certified gold single) just so you can pan it like every other indie-snob site? What's the point?

No Kenan?
Was Kenan Thompson even *in* this episode, outside of the waving-goodbye bit at the end of the show?

Swine fever!
Just for the record, they did explain in one of the commercial's asides why the BBQ restaurant couldn't just make a new commercial — it was something like, "We wanted to but we couldn't afford it after all the lawsuits we're having to fight off from this commercial" or something along those lines.

My count
I've only seen "The New Guy" and "Envy" — and both made me laugh. Not a lot, but enough to consider my time decently well spent. The image of a flaming marshmallow landing on Lyle Lovett's eyeball is enough to make me re-watch "The New Guy" any time it's on cable.

My count
I've only seen "The New Guy" and "Envy" — and both made me laugh. Not a lot, but enough to consider my time decently well spent. The image of a flaming marshmallow landing on Lyle Lovett's eyeball is enough to make me re-watch "The New Guy" any time it's on cable.

Wha?
No mention of "The Adventure Of Pete & Pete"? Mulcahey scored the music for the entire series. He's the guy we get to thank for the brilliance that is "Hey Sandy," aka indie rock for 10-year-olds. I owe him a lot for that.

Meh.
These recaps are as entertaining as this show — that is to say, not at all. I'm a huge fan of both "The State" and "Stella," but I've watched this show's entire run thus far hoping it will make me laugh, and it just hasn't happened.

"(sigh… here it comes)"
That's what she said.

Confirmed
Confirmed: http://www.altpress.com/new…

Sincerely, fucking stoked.
How this episode didn't get an A (or at least an A-) is beyond me. They went from one of the worst half-hours in the show's history last week to one of its finest hours with this episode — every single character had at least one good line, we got to see Michael attempting to feed the birds,…

…and that's what us folks in the biz call a "recall."

@hpfan: The idea of Daniel knowing that was his mom would also explain his real lack of concern about having a gun pointed at him. He really didn't seem too worried, because he knew his mother couldn't kill him since she hadn't given birth to him yet.

What's the first thing a woman should do after she gets out of the battered women's shelter?

Did you know Helen Keller's dog ran away?

How many hands does it take Helen Keller to masturbate with?

You want jokes? You got it.