The last few episodes especially, Chevy's been really solid. But it's a more serious turn, and the praise tends to go to the crazy or the funny.

Only the very clear Trolling, I think. Some of the "I loved it too!" is unnecessary (guilty as Changed here) but in doesn't detract.

I mentioned this last week, but in lieu of direction from writers, I imagine the prop people use whatever's convenient, i.e. the actor's real birthday. This burned LOST a couple times and Lindelof/Cuse did the same thing Harmon did (and they may fix/blur it on the DVD release).

People, we HAVE to stop responding to Karla.

@seffina Good call on the connecting to people one, though you could argue they touch on that briefly in 124 ("I can only relate to people through…movies." "She's the Ark of the Covenant!"), where he uses Abed's worldview to make sense of a point. Jeff indulges Abed's pop-culture fixations pretty often, actually,…

Britta: Hey, Hi I'm Jeff's dad.
Jeff: Hi Jeff's dad, I'm Britta's dad.
Britta: What? Why?
Jeff: I dunno, got drunk, didn't have a condom, and her mom gets freaky when she hears Oingo Boingo.
Britta: Oh god, I wish could relate, but much like my son I'm a closet homosexual.
Jeff: Don't apologize for that. You're talkin to…

He's said on Twitter he actually commented here, unregistered but as "Dan Harmon" but not since early season 1. I hunted it down at one point, there's one in the Stats article for sure.

I'm a big Mixology fan, and repeated viewings make it better and better. The sadder episodes tend to do that though, because the first time through, you're focused on the jokes (it is a comedy, technically) and the second time, yeah, I still laugh, but I focus more on the emotional stuff.

Apparently this is gonna happen on every thread. Wonderful.

I'll maintain his best episode is Mixology while conceding that I know jack about what the Emmy nominators are looking at, but in terms of broad comedic performance, Accounting for Lawyers and Epidemiology have their moments as well.

@Domino8888 To start a real discussion on the top comment?

Jeff's Age
I was thinking about this earlier today, but assuming for the moment he is at worst a shotgun wedding baby and not a bastard, 1974-1983 is when his folks were married. Considering he mentions seeing Ghostbusters in Theatres (107), which is 1984, it's probably closer to 1974 than it is to 1983.

It definitely is a sly nod at that. But as Todd mentions, they both alternate between who is being the Dad at various points. It seems like Pierce father/mentors Jeff in a more serious way, and Jeff taking care of Pierce is played more for laughs (a la Messianic Myths).

I still think Mixology is Donald Glover's Emmy-episode.

Screeners, people.

Reminded me of the old Family Guy exchange:

Uhhh, have you seen the Hawaii episode from last year? Julie Bowen does not look good in a bikini.

I think the 7 is not hard-coded but just a consequence of whatever algorithm they're using for wagering. Since the opponent totals are all even hundred dollar amounts, the algorithm always computes a 7 in the ones column.

"the TIMING of the clues is too short"

Unrelated to the rest of the thread, but Jody, did Peter King teach you how to number points? A) 2) D) ???