The bar setting also gives them something natural to do with themselves other than sit around and zing at each other—there are tables to wipe, drinks to make, peanuts to pick up and carry offstage, etc…

I just started watching from Season 1 a few months back, and am only up to Season 4, but the show really does seem kind of ..unpolished compared to a modern sitcom.  I know that it's not—I'm sure it was re-worked many times, but there seem to be lots of long takes, and lots of reaction shots that suggest that everyone…

I dunno, I thought they had a pretty awesome girlfight.

"You wanna play LIBRARY"? Not librarian.  I thought that was pretty funny.

It's also possible that on another network, people would watch the shit out of it.  Part of the reason for Community's poor ratings has to do with NBC's troubles, not the show's.

No, every episode of "Community" spirals into the 4-digit comment count, now.

I loved that his ongoing joke when people choked on his name was "It's spelled just like it sounds," when it clearly is not.

And how long was it?

I hope they handle it well.  Maybe she'll actually become a real girl.

I thought it was worth the payoff, with the guy taking a long look at his own car: "I see you met my wife…"

All storylines get recycled.  But I can tell you that Cam and Mitchell's "what happened to us?" plot hit awfully close to home.  Even the part where someone comes to you looking for the good time and you just want to go home and watch TV by the fire.

I don't know, I imagine Manny with a hidden collection of tasteful nude statues.  Or bodies.

No place, anywhere is like this.  I think that's the point.  And maybe with a name like "Suburgatory," they're intentionally suggesting an afterlife kind of dreamland.

I think it's more a statement of the relationship they have with one another—it makes it seem kind of tight-knit and inside-jokey.

If you decided to live in a hotel, you could probably arrange to have your OWN semen-soiled bedsheets washed and returned to you daily.

I think this show actually has a bit of edge…multiple neighbours foreclosed on, a semi-serious consideration of walking away from the house, and a 10-year-old quoting Shakespeare (pretty well, I think).  I think you maybe aren't supposed to laugh at every part of it.

I don't know…it seems like parents of a son who clearly rocks at his high school sports (he beat his dad's record in basketball) would worry less about his academics.    He clearly needs a good smack though…I couldn't stand being around a person that clueless and rude.

I saw this show in syndication, and I think I was a little older than you were when that scene freaked you out, but I confess that that shit freaked me out in 1983 when I was 10.  But boy, did I loves me some Benson.

They can kind of actually do this now, can't they?  They did it in reverse with Jeff Bridges in Tron.

Well, to be fair, they were probably PHYSICALLY spliced together with tape from bits of completed movie.  The fact that it was more complicated made them less essential to produce, I'd think.