I think he wanted to make the "Will They?Wont They?" to seem perfectly fine on the surface, but with dark undertones involving controlling another person by infantilizing them— shown in the Darker versions of their characters in the season 4 finale (Megan Ganz did write the season 4 finale and even though it wasn't…

I think Jeff/Annie have sunk…I knew Harmon knew something "weird," about them that he never revealed to the audience—-which was why he never felt comfortable putting them together.

Dan Harmon's been trying to do that to the audience for five years…

My prediction:

After seeing this episode, the episode description for the season 5 finale makes a thousand times more sense.

Buzzkill:All government is a lie!

"Do we even have ranks? We're all dressed like serial killers and strippers."

Yeah, realized I messed up the actors' names a while ago, but I couldn't find the comment on stupid Nudisqus to change it.

If Arrested Development didn't have the hiatus, then yes I think it would have has six seasons of quality work. Mitch Hurwitz is a great writer and the major difference between AD Fox and AD Netflix was that Hurwitz could play with TV structure and format on Netflix, which turned some viewers off to the new season.…

She pulled a Jennifer Beal—leaked them on purpose to get fired like Beal did to get fired from Seventh Heaven.

I feel like you have no idea what you're talking about…

If you don't think Arrested Development took itself seriously, you're not watching the show correctly. Those plots and call-backs were so intricate that saying it didn't take itself seriously is an insult. Also saying sitcoms aren't being analyzed is ridiculous. There are tons of articles and books dissecting sitcoms…

You've obviously never seen Arrested Development.

Personally, I don't think the writers should pander completely to the fans, but IMO Lost and its misleading mythology was a huge middle finger to fans and was really just them having no long-term plan.

I wish Friends went with the original ending and had Rachel get on the plane (I think the network was reluctant after Sam and Diane).

If they make Greta Gerwig woman 31, I will never watch CBS or anything involving Bays and Thomas again.

Considering Greta Gerwig's character gets divorced in the pilot and has a gay brother—I wouldn't be surprised if she was telling the story to the child that results in an egg she donates to her brother's future partner and that she gets back with the ex-husband in the end….especially considering the nine-year ordeal…

I think if it ended about three years ago (maybe four) it would have been more highly regarded.

Oh definitely—Harmon is also one of the few TV writers who successfully pulled off a bait and switch for our expectations about the relationships between the characters (which I think probably came from being influenced by NewsRadio and Cheers).

Yeah, but Thomas and Bays aren't Virginia Woolf—and it is pretty romantic of them to try and do that structurally as an homage, but it doesn't work in the case of HIMYM. What you just described works better in prose than in a visual medium like television.