@Scrawler2:disqus I'm rewatching the ep right now, and it's amazing how much expression Glover-as-Troy-as-Abed has: you can really see the pain in his face where he's seeing Britta being Britta, and it's one of the things he really likes and admires about her, but it's just not enough anymore.

I've been the Britta here. It's tough, you're not going to be able to be friends for a while, and it is hard to explain that a relationship that isn't bad but is work isn't worth it over the long run.

@Scrawler - Yes, bang all the dudes who aren't in the study group. But no relationship stuff! Don't be like Taylor Swift!

Every so often Donald Glover does lapse into Southern rhythms, mostly when he's improvising, so even though Troy doesn't speak like that normally, he does it enough when he's excited that Pudi-as-Abed-as-Troy didn't seem racist to me.

Thanks, I hadn't rewatched. I knew there was still a reason I distrusted Stan, even with the beard.

@avclub-c156902f5b20b572848be18c11634dfb:disqus - Yeah, there was a lot of insecurity/frailty there that was very much not, "I am devastated that Troy broke up with me," but, "this is bringing up some old fears of abandonment, even when done in a gentle way, and I'm afraid I'm going to go back into my douchebag cycle."

Hopefully she's a Community fan and is feeling the same way?

My husband wants Jim Rash to be showrunner going forward. I am okay with that.

@Scrawler2:disqus , I've been a shameless Troy/Britta shipper for like two or three years now, and I still think this was a perfect episode, because it really did nail the feeling of, there are two people who like each other lots, and are each good people, and are sort of good with each other, but aren't really good…

I'm actually from right outside Atlantic City. I didn't recognize anything specifically in the trailer, but the book named a bunch of places I knew well. (Plus, the violent crime aspect fit right into life in AC.)

I was hoping this was a subtle indication that Stan was a Chicago man. Or if Stan was the one putting ketchup on hot dogs, then he would shortly be killed.

I don't care if it's uncool to be unironically excited for a Judy Blume movie, I am completely and totally excited.

@avclub-df723a364b70e18bb8fa82dcbcc2db91:disqus - Agreed. I'm all for art for art's sake. I'm also all for "pointing out bad art, because sometimes art is bad and narcissistic and really only there because the artist is an unbearable twit." And I think it should be fair game to point that out.

God, if only there had been some sort of Sharks/Jets musical rumble, a la Scrubs: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Ahem - you do know that Lea Michele, with all of her Broadway experience, was rejected for the lead in the planned revival of Funny Girl, which makes this plotline even more of a fuck you?

I mean, Mad Men occasionally does just that — there were three paid ad integrations in seasons 1-4, Heineken being one of them. Happy Endings did sponsored webisodes.

@avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus - It's hard for people to analyze changes to a system while they're still living in it. Also why people can't really be objective to changes they've lived through.

My dad is from Kentucky, and my aunt still lives there. She told me that she used to joke that Kentuckians got their voter registration stamped "D" at birth, and can't figure out what happened to the state.

Yertl the Turtle would work well, though possibly better as a Republican primary challenger.

They waited until you're thirty to spill? You lucky bastard, my mom told me how she lost her virginity when I was still in the single-digits.