I've watched the first nine, and so far the plot is so convoluted and circuitous, with so much happening out of sequence that it's almost impossible to follow.

I actually really liked Rock Center, it was the only thing that I've ever actually stayed tuned to watch after the NBC comedies, and the only "news magazine" show that I've found anything more than repulsive in a long time. So of course they killed it.

You could still watch, say five in the morning and five in the afternoon and five in the evening, just take breaks! Also don't do that anyway because 7.5 hours is too much TV for one day!

Yeah, it's "gift" without a T on the end, so why would it be "jif"? Also, the G stands for "graphics," so making it a soft G doesn't make any goddamn sense. Just because you work on something doesn't mean you get to arbitrarily define the phonetics of its acronym.

Note that she does not appear in the AV Club's original MPDG inventory (though she is in Almost Famous, her character is not the MPDG of the movie).

I certainly haven't seen everything she's been in, but I feel like the MPDG designation isn't really backed up by her actual film credits. In what movie is she an MPDG?

Yeah, that's pretty much the perfect descriptor. I honestly don't get what riles people up so much about Deschanel. She has the audacity to be pretty without being slutty, and to sing love songs that aren't about sex, I guess.

Ah yes, servicing the characters organically is why they felt the need to bring in James Spader for a completely unnecessary and ridiculous plotline that went nowhere, and why Kevin of season 9 has about 90 fewer IQ points than Kevin of season 1.

Guh. Yeah, the thought of working in the warehouse while staring up at the patron saints of the white collar office is kind of sickening

The A.A.R.M. episode was great and just went to show how much better the show would have been if they had just put Dwight in the manager's office immediately and skipped all the schizophrenia of the post Michael Scott years.

Yeah I think the biggest thing I'll miss is not really this show in particular as much as the two hour block of excellent television it used to anchor when Community, 30 Rock, The Office and Parks and Rec were all firing on all cylinders. Thursdays next fall are going to be some rough going.

Yeah, I liked how the office seems much more functional now, with the departure of a lot of the most incompetent people. A good place for the documentary to end, since a functional office filled with competent, relatively happy people is not exactly compelling television.

The big difference is that when Jim supported Pam going off to art school, they weren't married. She wasn't endangering their family's future while abandoning him with two kids and a full-time job without ever discussing it first.

Yeah, that struck me as odd too. I can't imagine many couples who give a baby up for adoption are still together a couple decades later

I think they were holdovers from when Paul Liberstein was planning to re-boot the show (Clark is Dwight, Plop is Jim), before they decided to end it and brought Greg Daniels back in to right the ship.

That was, unexpectedly, the biggest heartstring puller for me.

I figured that was mostly out of desperation for anything for Dwight to say about Pam. They did have that fleeting bond during his concussion in The Injury, though I think Dwight mostly forgot about that by the time he had come around.

Well, he's still paying for a second line, even if it's on one bill.

DId they say Kevin owned the bar? I figured he was just serving drinks.

Yeah, he was some relative of Dwight's earlier this season in the "Junior Salesmen" episode, when Dwight brought in a bunch of his friends and family to interview for Jim's position while Jim was in Philadelphia.