Ah, yes, I understand…Well, I think Medrawt offered some good insight there. Thanks for that!

Agreed on the point about the shot of the four standing there, palms up…I felt like it was such a perfect encapsulation of their entire mentality right now: going in, hands wide open, with the hope (assumption?) of catching fortune, but the risk of leaving that very same way—empty-handed. Great scene.

I assume it's because he still feels very uneasy about her relative inexperience (remember when he turned down her desire to ride on last week's episode, outside the bar).

"…Wanna do it?"

Can we please take a moment to say how great the intro is? The use of Massive Attack is just wonderful. What a tune.

…Well, yes, of course. I wasn't intending to specify which "version" it was paying homage to, just that it was doing so to that scene in general, regardless of the fact that the UK series did it first.

Oh, but there was *one* OK thing about this episode, which could possibly be under 'Stray observations', but I thought Dwight's stapler being put in the giant meatball was a nice way to pay homage to the famous stapler-in-the-jello scene of the series' pilot episode.

Dwight drowns; Jim fatally drives into a tree in his frantic escape; Kevin also drowns because, knowing Kevin, his stupid ass will end up face-down-ass-up in the shallow end, anyway.

I struggled to give this episode a 'D' tonight—even I'm wondering if that's being too generous, as I spent the entire time wondering why the writers are punishing their fans so. Tonight, my face was contorted in a groaning position the entire time—I don't think I smiled once after the cold open. It seems I only watch…

I still love the show, and thoroughly enjoyed tonight's episode, but…I'm really starting to worry about the direction they're taking Andy (and, by extension, April). A large part of why something like 'The Office' has been steadily racing downhill for years is because of the parallel decline in how the characters have…

Agreed, the final sequence was quite sweet, on a level which I can't remember the show ever really achieving before. For all of the surreal, chaotic, and plain absurd humour that's crammed into a 30-minute episode, it really was a pleasant respite to have this episode end on such an endearing note.

The shot of Kenneth, Lutz, Toofer, Frank, and Pete standing on the shore with the Coney Island fairground in the back was quite striking. Maybe the best surprise of 30 Rock's return?

I suppose you guys are right. When I watch Axl, I see my teenage years, but the fact that it's an image relatable to so many of us guys is testament to how honest the show really is. Like you said, Beige—he's not a bad kid. Unlike many sitcoms which may portray him as a "problem child", he is pessimistic, he is…

This show has got to be one of the most geniunely sweet and consistently humourous comedy series on television. It's a shame it doesn't have such a large audience on here as something like 'Community' or 'Parks & Recreation'—guess it's not perceived as being "hip" enough for the comedy elites. Too bad, it's perhaps…

Ha!

Between the stretched-out sauna fight, the dick sight gags which felt a bit awkward and overused, and the awful plug for the Toyota Prius (now I know it has great gas mileage—thanks for feeding me my advertisement at the same time as my comedy show!), this show could have been a huge misstep to begin 2012.

I think we can all agree that, despite what flaws you may have perceived in this episode, it was MILES ahead of the Christmas episode to finish off 2011, which still remains as perhaps the worst episode of the show I have yet seen. I was truly anxious before last night's airing that it would continue being a disaster,…

Superb finale to a superb season. I, like most of you, was shocked—and even a bit sad, as sad as you can feel for a gangster—at Jimmy's death. Yet, upon reflection, this just reinforces the moral message about gangster livelihood that's always been around: never trust anybody. Especially the most corrupt, amoral snake…

Actually, I found this week's 'Office' episode to be quite good, almost on par with P&R, in my opinion. And this is coming from someone who has been *very* critical of 'The Office' for numerous years, now.

Agreed. I've been *very* critical of 'The Office' for several seasons, now, and I really thought tonight wasn't bad at all. I find my tastes are slowly becoming totally out of line with the rest of this place—whereas everyone puts P&R on a pedestal, I think it's good, but nothing mindblowing. Likewise, just as I…