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Captain Assholay
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Just trying to Give the People what they want.

I'd sooner go on a Rampage.

It's my thing.

You gots to chill.

"7. What’s the first concert you ever went to?
DC: EPMD at Central State University in Ohio."

Mona-Lisa could've been bad if they overused her, but they didn't, so she was hilarious. Money, please!

Ah, I see what you're getting at now, that it's a regression, and it does make some sense that she would regress to complacency (especially with children in the picture), but the way they portrayed it was too much of a "let's just press the reset button on this character" than a real change in Pam. Agree on that.

To be fair, complacency was a defining characteristic of Original Recipe Pam (it's why she stayed engaged to Roy and had mostly abandoned her art and couldn't even come up with any sort of dream beyond "have a house with a terrace" in that episode where Jan has the conference with all the women). It's only once she

He's hard sci-fi.

Fully agree. Rashida Jones was consistently great, but Ann Perkins definitely had her ups and downs. The whole arc of her dating Tom just reeked of writer's-room desperation.

"This is a funny person—let's bring them on board, and we'll figure out what to do with them later" is an accepted comedy practice nowadays, and usually, it pans out eventually. Not so much with Schaal's 30 Rock run. It seemed like it should work, too, but for whatever reason, it never clicked.

Good call. Silver spoon frat boy suck-up Andy was funny (especially when paired with Dwight—Ed Helms and Rainn Wilson were such a great comedy duo). Late-period deranged weirdo Andy was a goddamn travesty.

He's harmless!

"Nobody ruins my family's vacation but me…and maybe The Boy!"

No twerking after takeoff!

Amy, tend to the widow Pac-Man.

"white person's Wayans brothers movie" is a pretty brutal dis, I must say.

This, plus I like a lot of the people involved with this show. I'm heartened by the fact that it's getting generally positive reviews.

What really makes it is the look Pam gives him. It's absolutely perfect.

By far one of my favorites. My only complaint is that it isn't on Netflix streaming. What the fuck, Netflix?