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Two and a Half Men has 5 Emmys and The Wire has 0. They are nice, but they are absolutely not a meaningful measure of quality.

Between the verge-of-crying before "Kiss From a Rose" and the crying after Horsebot 3000, McHale really did good work in this one.

Really? You think that Annie "has begun to hate them as much as [you] do", so she decided to join their puppet show at the end of the episode?

Yes! I was reading this and the first thing I thought was "hey, let's not forget about Lipschitz continuity/Lipschitz numbers."

Whoa, the guy who played Pierce's dad is 12 years younger than Chevy Chase.

I'm guessing this has been discussed somewhere over the course of (over 9000!) comments this season, but does the lighting this year kind of bother anyone else? It looks…I'm not sure: dull, washed out, unsaturated. Nowhere near as bright and colorful as season 2. Is this a budget thing?

Dunno if this has been mentioned earlier, but apparently descriptions for the next few episodes are up. MILD SPOILERS, since some people have said they don't like knowing anything about episodes going in.

Is Jeff just filling out the test randomly another "Jeff is guarded" character moment? It's certainly a lot less personally revealing than answering questions honestly. I think that's demonstrated in these comments - no one can really say anything about whether or not Jeff is sane because his results aren't actually…

What bugs me about this is that it implies that last year the army found about the dean buying this bioweapon taco meat, wiped the memories of everyone involved and then just didn't bother addressing the source of the taco meat. Come on, the men in black aren't that incompetent.

Nice catch. However, I was surprised that Abed's test was so normal. As I understand it, Abed is characterized as being unable to understand or reciprocate most emotion (he says as much in Cooperative Calligraphy). Isn't this a sizable chunk of the definition of a psychopath - someone with little empathy? Are we to…

I watched this on Hulu and soon after that scene there was an ad break. The ad was for Marie Callender's pot pie, which is I think a pretty impressive bit of cross-promotion.

From Dan Harmon's Twitter: "Fate has us all individually blindfolded and it helps to hold hands." Dude can really turn a phrase.

Also, I convinced my Thai roommate to watch the first episode of this season on Hulu, which he's doing right now. I don't know how much of the pop-culture stuff will translate, though (he's been in the U.S. for about a year). We'll see!

Dumb-ass me thought that the die would somehow lend on a vertex.

My, my, I just understood that the 303/304 bit at the very beginning of the episode was a reference to production/air numbers. Lovely.

I actually looped it for about an hour while doing my math homework.

Maybe you're thinking of the Jim Carrey Grinch? Carrey and McHale have fairly similar bone structures.

Oh, no doubt math is a great way to learn abstract thinking and creativity. It really bothers me that most people think math is just calculations. At its upper levels, math is almost an art.

Obviously lots of Americans are totally fine with this, though.