I also thought "The Sky Guy" had echoes of Adventure Time's S5E5 "All The Little People", where Finn gets really absorbed in a bag of mini-figures of his friends. That one, I felt, had a lot more focus on its concept.

I think it was meant both ways: they're playing on the idea that Maria might mistake a black stranger for a black friend of hers by literally making every instance the same actor and leaving it ambiguous whether we're seeing the world from her viewpoint and she's just mistaken, or we're seeing a third-person viewpoint…

totally agree - haven't seen the next one yet but this reminds me of Arrested Development and its… questionable Asian jokes.

same with the ramen ad IMO, they just played it straight and without much self-awareness (which is so bizarre coming from a show that is so self-aware centered on a character as self-aware as Maria).

Those Alice ads really were the absolute worst and they actually made me grossed out at the show itself being depicted in such an idiotic light, despite being just dumb ads concocted by questionable marketing.

That whole "detective explains the mystery" scene from Chuck had me giggling the whole time at how much of a nerd he was! "1216, which is one year after 1215… the year the Magna Carta was signed".

The shot where they pan over to Mike's car made me so tense, it was just tailor-made with enough dead air for something to come in from offscreen and smash into that thing.

The more the season went on, the more I enjoyed the metaphor of Kim's coffee mug in Jimmy's D&M car's cupholder. Sad to see the cupholder go. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the similarly pretty obvious metaphor when Kim tore the business card apart but then ended up putting both halves together in her hand.

By far my favorite episode yet. "Basic Bitch" is such a beautiful celebration, and Strong and Gethard were great in it. There were so many tiny little touches (the translucent image of cheese when she mentions cheese in that jury room speech) that made this one feel more complete than the others to me, though they are…

I haven't seen anyone else mention this: when Chuck is staring down the metronome at the end of the scene, it's because the metronome is off balance and not making perfect time. You can actually see Chuck twice nod his head where the metronome would click if it were in correct time and get confused as he realizes it's…

Besser voiced the purple & red-headed alien with the sash.

Yeah, I had heard nothing.

Spoilers on the front page of the A.V. Club not even 20 minutes after the end of the premiere of the episode? This is the shit I like to see!

Despite Andy Dick's, um, history, the Andy Dick episode is one of the greats (s2e16). Other than that I got into the show (and the podcast afterwards) by just watching whichever of the first 10 episodes had somebody I liked as a guest.

I dunno, I thought it was mostly reheated ideas they've done better in the past. The plane sketch is basically just a valet sketch with a different subject and look, the trigger happy cop sketch didn't have much in the way of twists, and I think the whole "anger translator" thing really has worn off on me because I…

Dude, an episode can be "excellent" and still have flaws, or even minor talking points. My feelings about something I found really uneducated – and something that happens literally every time transness is discussed in any popular media – are not detracting from this being a good comedy episode. Did you see the part…

Absolutely, that was some shit. I am glad they at least dispelled one popular conception about trans people with the discussion of "traps", though!

If someone has had SRS, wouldn't their "sex" then match their gender, thus making them not transsexual, then? God, this is too dumbly complicated.

Transgender (or just trans) is the term. Sex (in a biological context) is not gender. So by the made-up biological gender binary's rules, Bailey wouldn't be "transsexual" anyways.

SCHUMER: So Kamala, you're a Muslim.
KAMALA: Yes.
SCHUMER: Where's your burka?