I think it's funny that Dads isn't really doing that much worse than New Girl and Brooklyn Nine Nine but Fox is pulling it off the schedule anyway because they clearly realized how awful it is.

Holy shit, Archer.

Holy shit.

It's not that I think 9/10 are all that bad, but Season 8 has always had a strangely end-like feel to me. It has a handful of episodes that pose fundamental questions about the show and its characters (El Viaje Misterioso, Homer's Enemy), a bunch that question the longetivity of the show (Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie,…

It's funny how much Season 8 of The Simpsons feels like a final season. It makes it so easy to split the first 8 years of the show from the rest, even if 9 and 10 have a handful of good episodes.

Well, I meant I wouldn't go as far as referring to it as the "Silver Age". It's still firmly in the golden era, to me. I really wouldn't even consider it a downgrade at all - Homerpalooza is the only weak episode.

It's funny, because S8 really feels like a show that isn't going to last much longer. It has a final season-esque quality to it, with episodes like the hot pepper trip, Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie, and Homer's Enemy really asking some fundamental questions about the show and its characters.

The ones that are just totally confused are my favorite. There was one actually called "WHAT IS BROOKLYN NINE-NINE?"

The entire song is pretty brilliant.

I love all of the "wtf is brooklyn nine nine lol" responses circulating around the internet today. It's so fun being on the other side of awards outrage for once!

Oh, yeah, the finale was really good. That and the restaurant episode, then, are the only things I really liked.

It's not terrible or anything. There were plenty of funny episodes. It was just slightly weaker than the first three years. I wouldn't recommend skipping it but I'd assume you can watch S5 without having seen S4 if you don't feel like catching up.

The weird thing about S4 was that it started out super serialized and then they just kind of went "nah, nevermind" and dropped it halfway through.

Why do people get so offended by pre-air TV reviews on this site? It's how 90% of publications handle reviews.

I've watched this episode about 4 times now and I think I've finally made sense of it. I was really down on it at first, but I've come to really appreciate the strange, ambiguous nature of it all. I don't think it worked perfectly, but I get what they were doing with it, and I really appreciated it. I'd raise my grade…

Yeah, the only one I remember thinking felt fresh was the restaurant reality show episode. Everything else kind of felt like a retread.

This is something I always liked about Happy Endings. The characters were actually dressed for a Chicago winter.

Between Archer and Community, 2014 is apparently the year of Season 5 Reboots.

I liked it at the time, but looking back, I can barely remember anything that happened during it, which definitely isn't the case for the first 3 seasons. So I'm glad to see the change.

The Ass Crack Bandit song is almost as good as a Bob's Burgers song.