That's actually what they call it on TV Tropes — Mohs Scale of Scientific Hardness.

Defining "SF" vs. "sci-fi" as a different axis from "hard SF" and "soft SF" is more acceptable, yes, in that it makes "softness" not a reason for disparagement.

Defining "SF" vs. "sci-fi" as a different axis from "hard SF" and "soft SF" is more acceptable, yes, in that it makes "softness" not a reason for disparagement.

I prefer "SF" to "sci-fi" myself, but going so far as to claim that "SF" and "sci-fi" are two distinct genres and the one is smarter and "harder" than the other is basically crossing the douchebag line.

I prefer "SF" to "sci-fi" myself, but going so far as to claim that "SF" and "sci-fi" are two distinct genres and the one is smarter and "harder" than the other is basically crossing the douchebag line.

Oh, also, you missed some beats that "Miss Chanandler Bong" hits — it's not just that Chandler is too much of a wuss to get them to change his name, it's also that he's, just like at his job, a faceless cog in the bureaucracy that no one cares about or recognizes, and that, just as with his job, it's something where…

Oh, also, you missed some beats that "Miss Chanandler Bong" hits — it's not just that Chandler is too much of a wuss to get them to change his name, it's also that he's, just like at his job, a faceless cog in the bureaucracy that no one cares about or recognizes, and that, just as with his job, it's something where…

He has to be single at the finale — otherwise he'd have no laughing and riding and cornholing to do on his VERY OWN SHOW!

He has to be single at the finale — otherwise he'd have no laughing and riding and cornholing to do on his VERY OWN SHOW!

Best example for that Inventory I can think of right now is Troy moving in with Pierce on Community — where apparently Dan Harmon used up all the lazy jokes one could manufacture from such a scenario within a single episode ("Follow @oldwhitemansays on Twitter!"), immediately forgot about it and left it totally…

Best example for that Inventory I can think of right now is Troy moving in with Pierce on Community — where apparently Dan Harmon used up all the lazy jokes one could manufacture from such a scenario within a single episode ("Follow @oldwhitemansays on Twitter!"), immediately forgot about it and left it totally…

Well, generally I say fuck the Ross-and-Rachel will-they-won't-they along with everyone else in America ("Just like Sam and Diane!… I hated Sam and Diane"), but "We were ON A BREAK!" is one of the most skillful, cathartic, eruptive sudden shifts from Srs Business Conversation to hilarious punchline I've seen a sitcom…

Well, generally I say fuck the Ross-and-Rachel will-they-won't-they along with everyone else in America ("Just like Sam and Diane!… I hated Sam and Diane"), but "We were ON A BREAK!" is one of the most skillful, cathartic, eruptive sudden shifts from Srs Business Conversation to hilarious punchline I've seen a sitcom…

It's hard to win an argument about Friends being an inferior rip-off of Seinfeld where everything that differentiates Friends from Seinfeld also apparently makes it inferior.

It's hard to win an argument about Friends being an inferior rip-off of Seinfeld where everything that differentiates Friends from Seinfeld also apparently makes it inferior.

The ultimate problem with shows trying to be *too* edgy or dark is that if nobody actually reacts realistically to bad things happening — and that means reacting with the sympathy and sadness real humans have, even ones who aren't that nice — then there's no stakes and the darkness isn't that dark after all.

The ultimate problem with shows trying to be *too* edgy or dark is that if nobody actually reacts realistically to bad things happening — and that means reacting with the sympathy and sadness real humans have, even ones who aren't that nice — then there's no stakes and the darkness isn't that dark after all.

Right down to forgetting the actually funny gag with the character's family members that was done previously (Dwight's brother Mose, Joey's army of indistinguishable sisters) in order to create new relatives we've never met before that will probably turn out to just be recycled sitcom cliches (like Joey's nebbishy…

Right down to forgetting the actually funny gag with the character's family members that was done previously (Dwight's brother Mose, Joey's army of indistinguishable sisters) in order to create new relatives we've never met before that will probably turn out to just be recycled sitcom cliches (like Joey's nebbishy…

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