Yeah, I think it's mostly the lighting. Single-camera shows (and even pre-recorded multi-cam shows) generally change lighting rigs and camera positions for every scene, whereas live performances (and soaps, which are basically a hairs breadth from being shot in a single take) are lit broadly and shot more flat since…

I choose to believe there was a deleted scene where Terry threw him.

Also that they totally failed to get it done in time for anyone to have any.

I love how, as someone pointed out on an earlier episode, Holt would have been 8 to 17 years old during from 1970 to 1979, yet on the show he's basically just ageless.

The ridiculousness of the idea that Boyle's parents lived together but ate dinner in different rooms (while tempting him to join them in each) made me unreasonably happy.

The only good thing to ever come out of Dads was Bob Odenkirk referring to it by the name "Horrible Shitty Idiots" on Comedy Bang Bang

It's weird that so many shows do it because it so often means the death of everything funny about both characters. It will always be more interesting to hear little telling details a character's unseen spouse than to watch them happily smile at another cast member.

"Yes, the only… possible… explanation."

There will always be a special place in my heart for the Gracie Films tag as well.

"A safe house that watches Safe House is a safe Safe House house." That was probably my favorite joke this show has done to date.

Yeah, I still laughed a lot of times, but both the opening Santa knife fight and the closing butt-shot were pretty lackluster, and much less inherently funny than the show seemed to think they were.

Yeah, I hope they don't go down the "every character is paired up with another character from the main cast!" route. How often in real life is everyone who works in an office married to someone else from the same office? Yet it happens on almost every TV show if it runs long enough.

I thought the same thing, but they earned it a little bit with the flashback where the guy said he was going fantasize about killing Holt every day he was in prison and then kill him when he got out, so there was probably a good chance it was him.

Sit, Ubu, Sit. *Arf arf!* Good boy.

It's just one of those shows that gives you a headache if you aren't in the mood for it because everything is so incredibly heightened. If someone else is watching it in another room it sounds like a Roland Emmerich movie.

Yeah I would say it's basically a talk show, only the monologue is done while seated and with the aid of graphics.

The thing I've noticed watching Key & Peele, as mentioned in the article, is that they seem to have a really good handle on how to have multiple turns in each sketch that are all interesting, and almost all the sketches escalate to a worthwhile punchline or at least end on a clever button.

Ah yes, the "computers field."

The only objection I have to the song is the weird reference to pedophilic lust for the Sailor Moon characters that is buried in the middle of the Ed's "rap".

Probably because our reactionary Christian parent groups would cry "What about the children?!" since they have no ability to perceive irony.