Yeah same here, the editing totally killed what should have been decent jokes in many instances in season four. There was also a lot of weird, overlong pauses and the pace of the episodes was all wonky. A lot of episodes feel like they're dragging their feet for the first two acts, and then try to cram in way too much…

He said "I'm much sadder than all of you, I'll figure out why later."

Yeah I was surprised they were able to sneak that one past Standards & Practices.

I also liked how Abed was nerding about about something that was not Inspector Spacetime. The season 4 writers really seemed to forget that Abed is a pop culture savant on the whole, and not just obsessed with one Doctor Who-esque show.

Yeah it was basically a necessary evil. Even with all the talk of potentially moving the show to an apartment complex or whatever, I can't imagine that actually working. It would have just felt like a completely different show (and would have been even more contrived as they would have had to find some way to keep the…

Yeah the hologram was welcoming the visitor to the "Pierce Hawthorne Museum of Gender Sensitivity" so the implication was that he had some kind of harassment suit that is keeping him from coming on campus (and he also donated a building as part of the settlement, apparently).

This, and I also thought Jeff's commercial was a pretty specific callback to the opening musical number from season 3.

Yeah I was somewhat shocked to be reminded of how I used to actually think Chang was funny back when he was the most apathetic teacher in the world and not some kind of weird gremlin, or whatever the fuck he has been for the last two seasons.

Now we can add "enjoying the Hellraiser movies" to that list.

Yeah, Harmon calls him on speakerphone from time to time on Harmontown and they seem to enjoy each other. They're both a similar kind of bitter, difficult but undeniably talented old coot. I'd guess that Chase did it as a favor to Harmon (and also probably for the money).

I don't know how big of a ratings boost it will really see considering NBC has completely failed to promote it in any way. Hardly anyone is even aware this show still exists.

In my experience, it's the "alternative students" (read: adults who are going back to school after being laid off) who obsess the most about having a perfect GPA. They seem to think that because they're taking school seriously and have life experience that they are somehow owed a perfect A in every course even if they…

The main problem with season four is that it just wasn't very funny. We'd likely forgive a lot of the other issues if it had been. Season three is really out there as far as the characters generally behaving like "mixed up cartoons," but it was consistently hilarious so it hardly mattered.

Hey, it's better than most other networks, which make you wait like two weeks before you get the most recent episode. They still get more ad revenue from the TV commercial spots so they don't want to totally destroy their business model by having the episodes available online before/simultaneously to the TV airing.

I like how the XBox One + Kinect + SmartGlass thing is effectively what the Wii U is, only the Wii U costs about a thousand dollars less.

Well, yeah. I was just saying that you can't really fault people for not correctly guessing (in print especially) whether it was being used in the "taking it back" sense or the other, less savory sense.

I think a lot of people whose fingers are not exactly on the pulse of LGBT culture just think of it as a pejorative for homosexual.

The word "queer" is so overloaded with various connotations that it's kind of absurd to expect people to know precisely what you mean by it.

He dated that one girl (though it was, admittedly, mostly to hang out with her dad and his cool music gear), and was attracted to that Miss Piggy-esque puppet, but I think it's mostly more of a case of him being pre-pubescent and not really having a sexual orientation.

She can be hilarious, and I like her ability to undermine both of the parents, but I agree that she's a bit of a "deus ex machina" crutch for the show; when they can't think of a way out of a given storyline they just throw Louise at it (worst offender was probably "Broadcast Wagstaff School News," for Louise just…