I completely agree. At least this is nowhere near as bad as season 4, but even season 5 Community had a zip to it that's just gone now.

I semi-enjoyed the first season of TGP, but checked out immediately in the second season during the episode where they forced all the contestants to relive their childhood bullying (complete with stealing a blind contestant's cane). I thought it seriously crossed a line and was pretty appalled at the callousness of…

I actually enjoyed "My Headband"! Sometimes I sing it to my ponytail holder, even though it's not a headband.

Ugh, yes! The sound mixing was terrible and I had to keep manually turning my laptop's volume up and down. Plus, the pause/volume/etc menu wouldn't show for me, the sound would drop for the last commercial of every break and continue to be dropped for a few seconds into the episode, it randomly stopped itself in the…

To be fair, I think Community as a show is aware that that's bad — part of Frankie's reforms did involve removing the liquor from the teachers' lounge. I thought the whole point was that it showed how badly managed the school was.

Yeah, when I heard Paget Brewster would be a regular this season, I assumed the IT lady was getting a promotion. Maybe they thought the IT lady's persona wouldn't fit with the character of Frankie.

I wanted to third the sentiments above and add that, to me, it seemed like a key part of her fantasies wasn't about Elfman himself, but about his role in her life. That's why so much of her fantasy of him was centered around an actual conversation they were having: she's into him because of the power dynamics between…

I thought the black fatherhood episode was pretty interesting, although that was partially because they skipped the monologue and had an extended panel. The vaccine episode was really a low point in the first couple of weeks.

Hari Kondabolu would be amazing and would keep TDS at the level of insight that made it great. But based on his Twitter, he doesn't seem very interested. :(

Ugh, I agree so strongly with all of this.

The pregnancy was the shark-jumping moment — I called it then and I think it's becoming obvious now.

The librarian at my school eventually banned me from checking out Number the Stars because I would keep reading it over and over. Weirdly, I barely remember anything about it now.

To be fair, The Hunger Games is kind of a blend of the two genres. Sure, Katniss has to (or can choose to) deal with people instead of just nature, but in some ways I think it still feels similar — it's still her against this huge, all-consuming world that doesn't care about her, and she has to leverage every skill…

Especially if they've just gotten some furniture from the French Revolution in!

Yeah, my teachers used to ban me from reading and force me to go outside at recess. This sounds like this teacher was trying to do something similar, but with smaller steps.

I read them years and years ago and still haven't quite gotten over Henry.

I similarly loved My Side of the Mountain. Unlike Ryan, I think I related quite a bit to the idea of voluntarily abandoning my life and going off to be as self-sufficient as possible, because I wished I could be more of a loner than my life allowed me to be at the time. But I never read Hatchet because the idea of…

Point: Although I originally thought Eddie Huang was kind of a douche for badmouthing the show, I'm starting to see what he meant about it being watered down. This was a fun, feel-good episode, and it does kind of talk about how immigrant families imbue their kids with good work ethics (God, if I had a nickel for…

Single-payer should have been forced onto the table just so we could get a public option through in the end. I'm in full agreement with Hari Kondabolu here:

Also, isn't Obamacare popular now? I mean, millions of people have health insurance that didn't have it before, and there's been a lot of positive press around that. Isn't this literally Republicans reaching for a thing that was unpopular a few years ago because they're too stupid to realize that people like it now?