"A track like “Excuse Me”—with its tired concept and a beat that sounds ripped from an mtvU lineup—was better off on the cutting room floor."

Dan had to go on Adderall to write season 2 too!

It's impressive that Ganz wrote two of the very best Community episodes and two of the very worst.

It's okay if you don't think about how much better the book was at tackling its premise.

I will say that the characters and the show itself get a lot more warm and likable as the series goes on.

I also binged Lost and it worked really well. I guess I missed out on the meta-pleasures of theorizing and speculating, but Lost is just such great TV that it didn't really matter.

Apparently the actress refused to kiss Vincent Kartheiser back, therefore making it seem a lot rapier. Though, to be honest, that's just the difference between rapey and slightly more rapey given the power dynamics and her initial reaction.

GLICE?!?! GLICE!?!?!?

This is the first time we've seen Prismo just hanging with his celestial bud Cosmic Owl — makes sense to me that he'd be more of a normal roommate guy in this relationship

Good thing Chauncey and Sal break his landing!

He's the culture editor at Vox now, so basically at a farm upstate.

I would argue that Monsters Inc. is a great movie, but yeah, good point. At this point, opposition to Pixar sequels is more ideological than anything, up until they actually make a disappointing one.

It's okay, he's just focusing on Don in the first draft because Don is the main character. I'm sure he'll have a lot to say about Joan's plot, which is by my reckoning the most important plot of the episode. You could say it's sexism if Teti didn't unfailingly choose Don as the focus of his first drafts, but he does,…

I hope Conrad Hilton shows up again. His relationship with Don was rich, and it'd be a shame if all he gets is a namedrop.

See, I think the crushing thing about McCann's sexism is how plausible it is. What reads as absurd levels of gender discrimination to us was actually how things worked in the 60's and 70's. SC&P was an exception, by and large.

After a lot of genuinely crushing Joan scenes and melancholy, empty Don scenes, I really needed that.

That's an interesting reading. I think Don is constantly running from himself, but if becoming a multi-millionaire partner doesn't prove that he's already more than a generic man, I don't know what will. He's more plagued by emptiness than a sense of mediocrity, I think.

The way I read that scene, the nail in the coffin was Roger not believing in her — being told "you'll lose" by someone she closely trusts just defeated her.

That'd be incredibly ballsy, but I think more plausibly next episode could have no Don and he'd only return in the finale.

I remember reading Lost World as a kid and really, distinctly disliking it. I think I found it really repetitive? Like, pretty much the same plot structure as Jurassic Park without much to add. But I was a teenager, so maybe I was retarded and that's not true at all.