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I sort of agree with Sims that despite the lack of reaction from the audience, it did seem like exactly the sort of thing SNL will try to beat to death because that's what they do with anything that has a catchphrase. Sort of like how nobody has ever laughed at a Gilly sketch, but they did them all the time.

Yeah, I think it's similar to the Governor Paterson character in that it's so absurdly exaggerated that you can't really get mad at it.

The thing I'm going to miss most once Seth Meyers leaves is Olya yelling SAYTHE after everything she says.

I enjoyed it. I mean, it was really stupid, but kind of infectiously so. I have the feeling that it would have been incredibly hilarious if you were in the live audience, but kind of loses some of it's impact watching it on TV.

I think there's room on a show like SNL (it's friggin' 90 minutes long, after all) for some things that are more just observational or subtle as opposed to everything being pitched as setup-punchline setup-punchline sketches. The Good Neighbor stuff really reminds me of some of the more downbeat filmed things the

Yeah they suck when it's just Seth by himself. The one he did with Kermit the Frog was pretty great, though.

I have a feeling it was based off of more what the culture was like when those guys were in highschool 10 years ago than present day.

Yeah, I still tend to laugh at a couple of the craziest lines each time they trot it out, but would it kill SNL to not be so slavishly dedicated to making sure the format of every recurring sketch is exactly the same every time? Like, it might be interesting to see those characters interact with some other people

I thought it was the best one in quite a while — between this and the Drake episode, it feels like there was is sense of immediacy the show has been lacking for a long time.

I enjoyed it, but it was more well-observed than laugh-out-loud funny. The one thing I did laugh pretty hard at was Kyle's dream company being called "Disrupt Industries," which was such a perfect dumb name.

It was like someone took all the most boring things abotu Coldplay and added all the most boring Afro-beat stuff of Paul Simon.

I was thinking that hey had mentioned that at some point in… I want to say the Colonel Sanders episode? Though maybe I'm just thinking that because it was one of the few we saw any kind of exterior while they were not on campus.

I think it's pretty much just going through the normal sitcom life cycle, its reached the point where we've gotten to know these characters so well that the things that used to make us laugh just feel familiar, which means the show is stuck either constantly introducing new facets of the characters, which feels like a

I think you're right that part of the reason it's hard to get into the rhythm of the show, or look forward to it in the way that it was possible to do back in the silver age, is the way NBC insists on airing like one episode every three weeks and then putting it back on an arbitrary hiatus.

I mostly just thought she should… take a bartending class? Don't most bars require you to do that before you work there? I guess she got in on Nick's recommendation, but it was one of those sitcom idiot plots with a huge, glaring solution just sitting there, rather than just expecting her to magically know how to make

I was born and currently reside in Wisconsin and I've never seen anyone order an Old Fashioned in my life.

This one was kind of weak if you ask me. The plotting felt like it could have been any clichéd sitcom. I feel like we've seen the exact same thing play out on a bunch of other shows, with the flailing misderection and Jess stealing the little girl's birthday and whatnot. The "where'd she go?" moment with Nick thinking

Eh, the staff here has always been fairly adamant that the grades should be taken with a grain of salt and the body of the review is where the real value is. What purpose do the community grades serve?

I like how The Wire, True Blood and Eastbound and Down are all shown twice in that graphic, truly the wealth of shows they have on offer is almost inestimable.

Well, it's kind of an odd case in that [SPOILERS] the movie basically hinges on an anti-twist: it makes you think there's going to be a big twist the whole time, but every time you find out what's happening it's the most obvious, least "magical" explanation offered. Mostly I was thinking that the real mindfuck thing