When "Wise Up" started in Spanish 101, Community went from "Oh, this could be a fun show" to "Oh, this is a show that is operating on my exact wavelength."

King's been talking about doing a Shining sequel a lot longer than the last two years - I'm pretty sure he's mentioned the idea of doing a follow up on Danny Torrance since the late 80s (in fact, that Godawful miniseries has the epilogue with graduating-from-high-school Danny, so it was on his mind even then).

I really liked the stuff with Jeff and Susie tonight. It felt like all season they had been building the groundwork for a Jeff/Susie split (staring with Jeff's "I'm the only one not getting divorced!" in the premiere), only to end with the most contented moment we've seen from them. 
Divorce is great for Larry, but…

Larry was only interested in being polite to the background musician because he was sleeping with her. He must have eaten in hundreds of restaurants with background musicians.

"Finest Hour" straddles this weird line between his usual razor-sharp wording and references and  Cosby-esque observational humor with a few bits straddling the two. I laughed a bunch, but it just doesn't have the energy that most of his earlier stuff has. That's understandable I guess - not only is he getting older…

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Were the Bluth Banana bars the show's reference to low-carb/Atkins stuff?

Shock and Awww is my favorite episode
Even though I realize that objectively, it's probably not in the top 10 all time great episodes this show produced.

Turn up your volume to hear "The Legs" muffled outrage at Michael's reveal that GOB has a girlfriend.

Michael Bluth is the ultimate statement of nature vs. nuture. Even though he actively knows he should and tries to be a good person, he can't resist being a shithead most of the time.

What I love about that Freedom Sign Guy is that not only is it a great visual gag/indicator, but that he's the reason (albeit in a roundabout way) that this whole family has wound up living together. Even the throwaways have plot/story/character resonance.

You're totally right in that the jokes work because they come from a subconscious, as opposed to closeted, place.

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Sympathy for the Devil
Great writeup, but I'm surprised to see the references to "Sympathy for the Devil" tossed aside, because not only prove Ralph's guilt in the fire, but also put Tony in the right for doing what he did (or at least, making it an acceptable move in the eyes of the viewer). Ralph approaches Justin's…

"I did not… but so what?"
I think that turn is all the proof you need that Ralphie did in fact set the fire. On the commentary track for this episode, the writers play coy, but I don't buy it. Just because something isn't confirmed doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Well, it's the live version, and was the same one used in "The Departed."

Paradigms of Human Memory was a parody of a clip show episode. It was insanely well-done, but it was still was an episode about parodying a television staple, whereas "Critical Film Studies" or "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" are stories built on the characters who share a love and knowledge of pop culture and…

On the whole, I'd take a slice of life episode over a parody episode. I haven't rewatched the whole season, but I feel like the episode I enjoyed the most was "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy."

On the whole, preferred the first season to this one
The show started out as a sitcom made by people well aware of hacky sitcom conventions, starring characters well aware of hacky sitcom conventions, and one of the fun things about Season One was watching the show find itself and test its limits. But then "Modern…

So basically Weiner wants David Chase money
to run a show that's on its best day a third as popular and profitable as The Sopranos.