If Dave had quit ten years ago, we never would have seen his gleeful denunciations of Jay Leno during Leno’s treachery involving Conan.

This show is excellent. The characterisations are strong, as are the performances. The kids are the biggest surprise in that regard. And Glenn Howarton and Patton Oswalt have been delicious.

I hope you’re right about Earn internalising his sadness. I’d like to believe that he wouldn’t consider a classmate’s suicide to be no big deal, especially considering his connection to the situation.

Always record. Always record.

Nothing beats his role as Sy Mittleman (or, more precisely, as Fred Nunley playing Sy Mittleman) on Childrens Hospital. But Henry Winkler is absolutely brillaint in Barry.

And he has great hair!

Some of the shows mentioned in the podcast about the laugh track are actually shows with a studio audience. Perhaps the audience’s reactions are sweetened here and there; but there is a fundamental distinction between that practice and relying entirely on a laugh track, as on shows such as The Brady Bunch and Gilligan’…

Don’t wanna wait ‘til you know me better
Let’s just be glad for the time together
Life’s such a treat, and it’s time you taste it
There ain’t a reason on Earth to waste it
It ain’t a crime to be good to yourself

Lick it up
Lick it up
It’s only right, now

Stop. On Atlanta, which Glover created and on which he stars, writes, and directs, he shows his amazing range of talent.

And his acting on Community was wonderful. He fit beautifully into that ensemble, playing Troy first as a cocky jock, then transitioning into being a young innocent as compared to Jeff, and also…

The podcasts are theorising that Ghost Nation are there to protect the humans. This, say the theorists, is why Ghost Nation didn’t kill Stubbs, and why they wanted to take Lee away from Maeve.

“I lived in New York; I know what a baggel is.”

Are you trying to sex-talk me?

I guess you’re right about Chevy. But McHale or Pudi would have been great.

This guest-star-laden show would have benefitted from having a few more: McHale, Pudi, Brian Tyree Henry, and Lakeith Stanfield.

Glover mentioned Community in his monologue, and it got a huge response. The show’s stature has grown over the years; it is no longer a cult hit but rather part of mainstream television history. It has aged very well.

“...the sketches weren’t bad.”

“...a deliberate deployment of sexuality...”

I wish that she had touched upon her epic battle with James Murray.

Right, Earn had been in a dispute with this kid. But I guess I think of Earn as a reflective and thoughtful person; I was looking for something that indicated that he was thinking “did I really want it to come to this?” Recall that he had watched Devin get on the bus in a hail of abuse and thrown objects; I figured…

I was surprised at how little Earn and Al were affected by Devin’s suicide. I thought that Earn would be saddened, perhaps horrified. And I expected Al to consider his role in it, namely that, by standing up for Earn, he increased the abuse going Devin’s way.

But neither of them seemed to be bothered much by it. And…

Right, Carmine DiNunzio is another of his great characters. He cracks me up every time.