The thing about fandom is, it's about love. What you describe are two fairly unhealthy kinds of love: the 'It's perfect shut up IT'S MINE AND DON'T YOU DARE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT' and the 'It's not right it's not treating me like I feel it should treat me WHY DOESN'T IT LOVE ME ENOUGH'. Neither is healthy in a…

I don't think it was anything like atrocious. It actually had some great character stuff (Jeff, for example, is exactly where he should be following the last three years) and some very fun stuff.

The UN episode was one of the worst episodes of last season I'll grant you (not just the farting but the group being paralysed by it and then Annie completely freaking out over it made it not only unfunny but completely uncharacteristic). Digital Estate Planning though I thought was good; not the best, and admittedly…

And everyone has expectations of etiquette. Joey Loves Food is a famous example, but he didn't get the douchey crown, that's just Joey.

That's exactly my point, what makes him so different from others to deserve insulting in this way, and this regularly?

This site is LITTERED with grammar nazis. It's hardly that different, and hardly worth condemning a man.

I'm not convinced that it is that different. I'm also not convinced that one incident should lead to him forever being referred to as Douchey Ted.

Isn't 'showing off' the same thing as 'asserting their superiority'?

But he's not doing it to show off, certainly not to the extent that Barney and Marshall are with their respective traits. I think it's unfair to label Ted a douche and not the others just because his interests are the more niche ones.

I'd hardly call it pretentious, since he's never doing it to place himself above others, merely indulging in an interest of his (he's well read and enjoys classical literature, why is that a bad thing?) Marshall out-knowledges people all the time under the guise of 'lawyering' them, yet no talk of doucheyness there.…

@avclub-da518aecddbf5c94588f53562012c452:disqus  But my point is, why are you automatically calling them douchey? They're not your interests, but why are they a bad thing? He has interests besides those of his friends, and he is condemned for them. He is ridiculed for them. He is expected to give them all up so that…

In what way is he a douche? Because everything I've seen commented on here could be applied to, say, the characters in the Big Bang Theory (or pretty much everyone on this website) about one thing or another.

I'm going to go ahead and call you out on always calling Ted 'douchey'. He likes his work and is proud of it. He enjoys niche things, things you don't approve of. That makes him a nerd, not a douche. Stop insulting this guy for having a personality.

Fie on me, I actually think this looks good. The Pierce stuff looks fascinating, Jeff's general attitude looks like an impressive evolution from his last three years, Inspecticon looks like it has great potential, and generally it's good to see there's something for all the characters. Let's support this show, it may…

Great potential, great ideas. If JNT and Saward had had better writing staff (or let Holmes write every script) then there would have been some real gold during Colin's time. No other era screams 'wasted potential' like Colin's time, from the malevolent Doctor to the twisted views on other races, to the show putting…

It's alright, and if it hadn't been scheduled against Roseanne it might well have gotten the ratings Fox wanted to put it to series. At the time, it got 9 million viewers in the UK, not far off the 10 million that the 2005 premiere got, and it was actually quite well received at the time.

Those are some excellent choices, cutting away a lot of the dreck. My big qualm would be: where's the rest of season 7? The Silurians, Ambassadors of Death, and Inferno are all great stories built on solid ideas (flawed, admittedly, but terrific fun nonetheless)

If you can, start with the first three serials (released together as The Beginning Boxset). That covers the first story (obviously important, if not always the highest quality), the second which introduces The Daleks (a bit meandering at 7 episodes, but still very entertaining), and the delightfully claustrophobic…

Worth it.

The best sitcom finale ever is The Good Life. Admittedly, it had two episodes after it (a couple of specials, one of which is also very good), but the episode 'Anniversary' puts the characters through so much, and so brilliantly represents the purposes and strengths of each of the four main characters, that it is…