re: Jerry on P&R:

This has to do with a couple of tropes.  First is the "Everybody's Single" trope.  Not a single person in this office was simply married at the start of the show and remained married.  They all were either single, divorced, or got divorced.  That's patently ridiculous compared to real life.  Even in high school, some…

"Even his name is too wacky for The Office."

Why can't they go somewhere else, ditch Springfield?  Well, the obvious answer is it would require risk and effort.

Bah.  People have been breaking the fourth wall before they had four walls.

How about a turnabout story where an evil scientist is attempting to build a marauding robot army, but he keeps failing and the robots are nice namby-pambys?

I have a vision… it's a little blurry, but it's a red, round object… about three weeks into the future…  Oh boy, it's a reset button!  None of this will matter!

The problem is that they could always get together.  The reasons they can't have been contrived at best.

What sort of loser has a 'canon' for The Office?  Have you been writing fanfic?

Two takes on Jim & Pam.

Professional football?  Young ladies?  What a loon Bevis was.

These reviews need to be better.  This one basically comes down to I hate Target Lady, so the show sucks.  A reviewer needs to be able to get past that sort of thing more often.  It's really the only recurring sketch they did, and they haven't done it in forever.  I'm not saying you can't dislike the sketch, I just…

These reviews need to be better.  This one basically comes down to I hate Target Lady, so the show sucks.  A reviewer needs to be able to get past that sort of thing more often.  It's really the only recurring sketch they did, and they haven't done it in forever.  I'm not saying you can't dislike the sketch, I just…

Interesting thought about this movie.  When George is in the alternate reality where he is never born, it is not really a dream but a real world.  George has physical manifestation and can be seen, as well as Clarence and everybody else.  But I'm guessing that if George had opted not to live, he would have instead be…

The obvious contemporary parody of "A Nice Place To Visit" would be sending Homer Simpson or Peter Griffin or some other oblivious doofus to this sort of Hell.  The subject doesn't get the irony of the situation and just wallows in gluttony while the Devil does a slow burn…

Scrooged was a mess then, and it's still a mess.  It was a disappointment because it was supposed to be Murray's big comeback after he took a couple of years off after The Razor's Edge.

Who's the love child of Christopher Hewett and William Schallert?

Am I the only one who can't stand Leslie Knope at this point?

Ditto.  It didn't seem right to me either.

Eh.  Wonderful Life had plenty of actual misery before it earned its happy ending.  Parks has been a lot more syrupy sweet lately, not a lot of misery.