Shinsuke Nakamura appreciation post:

So many layers!

I liked K-9 as a kid. When I saw Turner and Hooch at the time, I remember thinking it was a letdown by comparison.

I was thinking that if the Harry Potter books had been written a few years later, a lot more of the humor and world-building that surrounds the Wizard/Magic versions of kids' culture and ephemera would be centered around some kind of parody of smart-phones and tablets.

The important thing to remember is to crush any and all opposition quickly and ruthlessly. Everything else will sort itself out.

I hope if they do it that they age the ALF puppet 25 years. Like he should have a scraggly beard and gray hair and walk gingerly on his hobbled off screen legs.

Maybe this will motivate them. I know I'd be mad if someone compared me to the Red Sox.

They're counting on the massive sales bump from two weeks of nothing but pictures of Alison Brie.

Not to mention how much I'm overpaying for an international subscription!

Damn, s3 is finished already? I haven't even started yet. I will probably marathon it next week, so that's something to look forward to.

We'll all be there to hold your hand.

If so, that's actually kind of a brilliant stealth joke.

Really good choices for s6. I hadn't thought about those 3 episodes together, and I don't know how connected they are, but it is a legit very strong run just those 3 eps removed from the rest of the season.

It's cool. I guess my hypothetical bar is like all-time Top 10-15? Honestly, I'm more likely to reverse engineer my list because I feel so strongly about the greatness of this peak run. I don't have a formula for ranking episodes, really.

WHERE'S SLATER??!?

I do. I respect your skepticism as "Conspiracy" isn't a great character episode but it's very funny and extremely creative.

Nice, Agreeabuddies!

Proxy high-fives save us so much time and effort!

I appreciate all the variety and thoughtful consideration of long runs. But there is one clear supreme run IMO and I've thought so since it aired, and while there's many other worthwhile eps, I really feel they only water down the perfect peak of "Calligraphy" thru "Abed's Uncontrollable XMas."

My heart just skipped a beat.