I don't think it was extremely weird, more just a reflection of the fact that some people were always going to binge-watch the whole show on Memorial day, and some people want to take their time and treat it like a more traditional television series.

One of my biggest laughs of the series was her "Tweet and drive" PSA.

I actually thought he was really funny as the sleazy club owner on Up All Night, of all things, but yeah he's been pretty annoying-to-awful in everything else.

Yeah, that was a painful moment. It made me feel bad for the actors in the scene that had to perform that material.

Yeah, but you don't get that until you've seen the Tobias episode.

The main joke there is that it was Tobias.

I took that as more of a joke at tourist-trap resorts than at India in particular. Lindsay is just the sort of upper class twit who thinks she'll get a spiritual re-awakening in a new culture and then never sets foot outside the heavily commercialized tourist section.

I began to wonder if Emmet was even really Andy Richter or just someone who is about his same build in the Tobias episodes. If it is, kudos to Richter for filming so much stuff that his face would eventually be blurred out of.

They really are much better if you watch them a 2nd time after making it through everything once, there's about a zillion jokes in each that you miss when you're preoccupied with trying to piece everything together the first time.

Yeah, they really get a lot funnier on a 2nd viewing once you've watched the whole series. I get that there's some value to reviewing them in order, but a 2nd pass after they've seen them all once might be nice too.

Yeah, Loblaw was in more scenes in the original run of the show, hence his abbreviated appearance here. Not every character can only be in a single scene. Especially with the restrictions on the core cast, adding new characters like DeBrie was necessary to have someone for Tobias to interact with for an episode.

They didn't go with Rich Diamantopoulosandanost?

Thats a super common aphorism, though.

The Maeby stuff had more satirical bite to it, because she was a (kind of stupid) kid who was successfully producing big budget movies. It was a commentary on the level of thinking that it takes to be a Hollywood producer.

Yeah, the movie plot is the weakest part about Season 4 in my opinion. The show never really makes it seem like it matters, you kind of assume Michael's not going to get all the signatures, and then when he rips them up it's suddenly supposed to be a huge insult to the other family members, even though they were all…

IT SAYS "SEX" IN THE SMOKE

That gets a little dicey when, say, you are a web developer. But it's usually safest to just say Gee Eye Eff or Jay Pee Gee or whatever the given TLA is.

Though the debate is almost purely academic as I don't know that I've ever had occasion to pronounce the word in the out-of-louds.

It never hurts to help! *tumbles into incredibly convoluted Rube Goldberg-ian series of physical injuries*

I've always felt that "gif" like "gift" without a "t" (since that's what it is) is more phonetically appropriate, regardless of what Steve Wilhite thinks. Just because you work on a project doesn't mean you get to defy phonetics when naming the product.