I have hit puberty. I enjoyed this thoroughly.

I am somewhat more forgiving of the bitterness Shirley's character occasionally leaves in my mouth precisely because I've assumed for quite a while that Shirley's endgame is either leaving Andre for good or coming to grips with the fact that even when he's not cheating, her relationship with him is far more toxic (on…

I hope so! Cautious optimism!

To be fair to Parks and Rec, it seems like almost every gay community on television is written as though it were Greenwich Village. TV writers need to talk to gay people who live outside of NY and CA. Last year our parade (in a city of 200k+ people) featured a Food Lion float that handed out corn and apples. Said…

I live in a small-ish city which theoretically is far more liberal and larger and younger than Pawnee, yet Pawnee seems way hipper? They have multiple gay bars? Which cater according to gender (either that or lesbians don't exist)? They had an independent movie rental store larger than a blockbusters? They have an…

I kinda disagree. While the characters have been off this season, they've still been within the realm of plausibility (mostly). My point was that this episode seemed to go out of its way to make every character totally implausible and irredeemably so. Absurd contrivances are now the core of every character's back…

Season 3 all over again! Woooooooo!

Especially odd as this would have been easy to explain. Angela refuses the senator's money and, in a state of extreme duress, begins to horribly mismanage her funds, making silly investments and purchases, some of which maybe pertaining to getting some kind of weird, delusional revenge on the senator.

It was too extreme to work. I get that Angela would have something like a breakdown, but I don't get why she suddenly didn't have any money. She has a job? and the senator should theoretically have to pay her? and even if he didn't, wouldn't he want to give her some support in order to protect his image? Was she just…

And that the Andy storyline IS seemingly over.

I believe they could if they wanted to. They've at least done a much better job historically. I thought their understanding of what a small-town, Midwestern government and community look like was imperfect but much, much better in season 2.

you are a brilliant person with good words. excellent.

bound to or bound BY?

The only reason it kinda almost maybe worked for me is that I kept Ron's insights from last week in mind while watching. It seems like with these last two episodes, as low-key as they were, some rather large changes are being set up. The people of Pawnee don't like Leslie, and while Ben was right in saying Leslie's…

AW FUCK.

agreement. you've made me think about things more clearly, and now I would add that this episode placed the Community universe distinctly outside anything like reality. Granted, Community's never been wholly realistic, but the characters were generally pretty grounded. Now they're contrived to the point of…

@PaulKinsey:disqus facetiousness is sometimes difficult to convey through text. But yes!

This is, I think, the best criticism of the Chang bits of this episode. His sudden switch back might have been at least kinda weighty if Jeff hadn't had a very similar conversation with Chang earlier this season, and nothing of import seems to have happened in between. What specifically did Abed do differently that…

Funny, when I was on the exec board for my school's gay-straight alliance equivalent, our campus crusade mostly ignored us. In fact, they never once came to any of our events…

A dude whom he knew was married. Which is a shitty move.