Theory: this episode is the real reason people claim the back half of season 3, and by extension the whole season, is weak. Because this episode is pretty much laughless plot setup. A thoroughly terrible episode that's standalone gets remembered as such, but when one kicks off serialization business people generalize…

I thought he botched several very easy line readings. But hating the actor for phoning it in might dovetail well enough with hating the mega-entitled character?

Nice one.

The point was that the concern to not have customers thinking of words like bums or loaves, related to both unappetizing bodily functions and weight gain, has resulted in an Orwellian crime against language. Subway ain't as nice as it's pretending. Abed's explaining while he will fight this. Subtly, since there was…

Yeah, they say when the show hits a hundred episodes it gets syndicable, hence much more valuable. And will then be immediately cancelled, because it's not popular enough to justify occupying its real estate. So the end is near either way, the good news is bad news. The writers' situation isn't quite the bind of the…

Wow. I came here assuming people would be trashing that A- from the other direction. I loved, loved, more happy happy loved this episode. That appraiser and everything he said, touched, did, was. The general on-ness. The choices of representative non-narrative moments. The treasure crunking. Subway as whatever will…

7th Seal if you want his "hit." Fanny and Alexander if you want his best. Or anyone's, I'd argue.

For consistency the first italicized parenthetical should be changed to "coughs twice." Unless that would be too dour and agonized, qualities that render valueless the peak artworks in any medium.

The fit is so good it could have almost been intended.

What you say is clearly right.

I'm not yet sure if my opinion about having opinions has. But the important thing is that everyone else saw what you did there, and nodded their approval, and those several billions nods done broke the earth.

The beachball of eternal discourse is a little greasier for my efforts. And yours, sweetest heart.

I do not like Von Trier! I do not like Europa!

Euphuism at the paragraph level? Probably goes back to before Werff Village's founding.

On the one hand THIS ontheotherhand THAT (x3)