It seems like a smart move to make it a newpaper. It’ll give them the opportunity to interact with people in the community, outside of the office. I think this was one of the reasons Parks and Rec was so good, because it didn’t spend so much time in the office.

How about Die Hard on a bus....but in an Uber?

No Country For Old Sheriffs

Dick Wolf’s Chicago Insert Dramatically Interesting Public Service Here franchise,
Dick Wolf’s Chicago Parking Authority

As a former summer intern at the Metropolitan Water District of Greater Chicago, I will say that they have a massive tunnel system and storerooms full of handwritten operations logs, and I always hoped  one of the log books would contain a reference to the Thing in Tunnel 4.

Little Versa energy might even be worse.

It’s a horrible car but it’s also cheap. People don’t buy it because they think it’s on the same level as a Toyota.

I watched all of that and did not really like it very much. The cast wasn’t bad, but every episode had the classic “problem snowballs bigger and bigger” but it rarely ended with any huge impact as a result.

Chicago Town Hall: Excise Tax Division 

Nissan drivers doing Nissan driver things...

I’m waiting for “Chicago Towing.”

Bring on State Comptroller Country.

Is it near Cougar Town?

My mom is sad.

*sigh* Ok. I’ll check back in tomorrow.

Those reverse mortgages aren’t going to sell themselves.

TV snobs find these things dull and repetitive, but I think it is a huge achievement to run for 14 seasons when you only have 6 plots, all of which have been used dozens of times before on other shows.

Thinking about the “will-they-won’t-they” trope always reminds me of something I once saw in relation to one of my older relatives. This may sound mean, but that’s not my intention; it’s more of a fond, fuzzy memory now.

To which the in-show response was exactly the same as the viewing audience’s: