Plus, Dave actually has some respect for Jimmy (unlike the rest of the staff), so he chokes his way through the stuff. Or maybe has even learned to like it.

I'm not sure I agree with you, Gorg. The ending feels to me like the requisite putting-things-back-to-normal denouement of a sitcom. We can't have Bill truly have all these kinks. It's funny, but to me it's ordinary and not extraordinary funny.

Clearly I had fashion on the brain because of the preponderance of Isaac Mizrahi in the commercial breaks.

Thanks, corrected.

No, now it's a PDF you have to download from the website, print out, fill out in pen, and fax back to us.

Faceless? That's quite the autocomplete functionality you got there, Astfgl.

Everyone in the class who is unhappy with the grade is welcome to submit an appeal to the appropriate administrator following the procedures clearly outlined in the Student Handbook.

Yes, the evident delight on Joe and the kid's faces as during the duct-taped-to-the-back gag just makes you want to grin. They look like they are having a blast.

All I can say is that you guys are missing out.

You make an excellent point about the improved readability of this book on the screen. I have to imagine that in tiny pulp paperback format, I might have actually gotten frustrated at all the space devoted to the script directions.

Other than that they both are set in the workplace, I'm not seeing THE IT CROWD comparison. At all. The tone, style, pacing — completely different.

Better Off Ted
I really should have mentioned this before everybody stopped reading the comments, but you're all watching BETTER OFF TED, right? I wrote about last night's episode here:

Shouldn't you be thanking us for our mistakes?

Excellent point. I could have also mentioned the pause before "oooo boy" after Dave calls the lawyers jackasses.

True. But it's the movement of the oscilloscope that puts it over the top.

Even better: Ted's initial "Dewey?" could easily have been a response to Veronica's statement — "Do we?"

I think "refrigemator" is the clear winner, with "prisoner in a complaint box," "need more complaint cards," and "doobie in my funk" (only with attending explanation) in a tie for second. Although that leaves out "and it tastes like crap" and "Matthew is staring at me and I love it." Darn it, I love them all!

Reminds me of the great montage in REAL GENIUS where every time we return to the classroom we see more and more of the students' seats occupied by tape recorders, until the last time the professor has also been replaced by a reel-to-reel droning on, with a note on the board: PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY, MATH ON TAPE IS…

I meant to mention in the Stray Observations: What a ballsy move to take someone with the formidable physical presence of Stephen Root in this show, and reduce him to a squiggly line and a voice coming out of a box. Genius.

The break room replaced a recording studio as a place for action to happen out of the main office, but it's not the same room. And if it were, you wouldn't need to record on a table with a portable reel-to-reel, now would you.