Valid, and it's why I always wince a bit when people rejoice over the cancellation of a show regardless of how I feel about it.

Seems to me that in the last year, the reviews have increasingly become transient forums for discussing completely unrelated things among the AVClub Community community.  The culture around the site has changed a lot so it's hard to compare.  Probably.

There are a lot of things wrong with this episode, but Abed writing off Pierce as an almost-unrelated, benign but obnoxious tumor on the group's ass was a pretty low point for this show's disregard for the characters' actual relationships and growth.  We get that everyone was annoyed with Chevy but that was just a…

Some people I clearly, embarrassingly forgot: Albert Brooks. Bill Cosby, Mary Tyler Moore, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Gene Wilder (super long shot), Alan Alda, Betty White, David Letterman (never gonna happen), Paul Simms, and every cast member of NewsRadio that isn't Andy Dick or Dave Foley.

Jeff-Pierce scenes may have worked a hell of a lot better had they not pretended that every episode (or entire season) where the gang learns that Pierce isn't a completely worthless sack of hate-shit that sucks to be around all the time and forever and let's just kill him to make the world a better place had never…

After hearing about how Harmon ran things and listening to all of the Newsradio commentaries where Paul Simms and his writers were consistently writing at 3 in the morning, I've been thinking everyone on Community's 4th season must be getting home to their families around 6:30pm every day and how tragic that is for…

I've been hoping Mark would get to Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Dick Van Dyke for a long time.  This is great.

Those three may have set the bar, but Roseanne set the Barr.

I know he was causing problems at the end of season 3, too, but his speaking parts in every episode have been the lowest of the low.  So much so, you understand how he could feel much more excited about an Old Navy commercial.

I came to the show late myself, zipping through it in about 6 weeks.  I was desperate for some conversation about it, so I read a lot of the commentary that was written as it aired.  There was a mysterious consensus that seasons 4 and 5 were weak retreads of seasons 2 and 3, but I never found a good argument for that.…

I probably wouldn't have cared too much for The Great Gatsby had F. Scott Fitzgerald been fired and the last chapters written by someone else who ended up writing sloppy fanfiction and retreads of material covered in the first chapters.