I always love when that happens. Creator Lauren Ungerich also comments on the Awkward. reviews sometimes (which everyone should check out by the way).

Of all the things you can fairly criticize Todd for, this really isn't one of them. He's very conscientious of the history of television, and would probably be happy to write about The Honeymooners and Route 66 all day long if anyone would actually read it.

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus I don't think that's fair: coming up with anything close to as good as a great pilot almost immediately is just a sign that the show itself is great, not just the pilot. Admittedly I'm not quite sure why Walkabout gets so much fuss though honestly, there are a lot of…

I don't think either one is that great of a pilot: Freaks and Geeks doesn't tell you that much about what the show will be about, and only really establishes the characters of Lindsay, Sam, and Eli well. FNL on the other hand is a great pilot the second time around, but the first time it strains a little too hard for…

Considering how much tv Todd watches, there's really no excuse. He watches every episode of Community like three times, yet he can't find the time to watch all the episodes of one of his favorite shows?

That somehow went completely over my head the first time, and I felt incredibly stupid when I didn't realize that was exactly what he had been doing the second time around.

By the way has anyone noticed how much his narration style changed over time? I was just rewatching the first few episodes of the show and he talked in a very dry, typical documentary voiceover fashion earlier on, whereas in season 4 his tone is pretty conversational. I really liked season four but they seemed to…

Oh man… if they don't change the title of this show that's pretty damn offensive. I think the only way it could get worse is if they replace this woman with a person of color or a transsexual. Which means that will probably happen.

I thought that was a weird comment because my main complaint about this season is that it looks really cheap and bad visually.

I agree, the reviews would be way more insightful if they were rewatching these, much like Noel's old reviews. However I can appreciate that they may not have had time for that over a holiday weekend.

It's definitely a massive error in the sound mix, not a joke.

I hadn't watched AD in years Scrawler and I never had any trouble telling them apart, except when the show wanted me to. I think people are greatly exaggerating this issue.

Mitch Hurwitz also threw in a cameo from the cast of Outsourced so his taste is a bit questionable.

Okay so I'm planning on doing a full series rewatch now that I've finished season four, but I think I might play around with the episode order a little when I get back to S4. I was thinking of starting with Queen B, then watching the first halves of all the two parters except George Michael, sticking Busters episode…

Definitely! Concrete dates or some of kind of onscreen timeline that popped up when the flashbacks happened (instead of that useless Netflix style rewinding) would have been really helpful and made the whole thing much, much easier to follow.

Lost was actually pretty sequential aside from the flashbacks, and wasn't slavish in terms of sticking to the character that the episode was focused on. The focus on a particular character was more a way to give each individual episode a thematic through line than it was a "putting the pieces together" kind of deal.…

I noticed that but I wasn't sure if it was a part of the episode or what was going on there. I'm pretty sure it's somewhere around episodes 6-9 though.

@avclub-d80ecbbbef6ab40a4e53d1ad2c3fc1b2:disqus The recapping was actually really helpful for me, since it's been about four years since I watched the first three seasons.

I'm really on the same page here with you on the season overall @Scrawler2:disqus   but I am pretty baffled by your choices for the worst episodes. Those are both in the middle of the pack for me: not great but not terrible. The worst ones for me are easily the first three, followed by the second George Sr. episode…

I really had no idea what was going on with De Rossi's face in the early episodes…. as you say she looked normal as soon as she changed her hair. If credits didn't exist I would have bet anything that they used a stand-in in some of the early episodes because she was too busy or something.