Great cold open and plenty of funny lines in this one. And even good character consistency. Much, much better than last week. I really enjoy Morgan, his guy-crush on Danny and belief in his special relationship with Mindy. Morgan and Danny hanging out was a great choice. And Mindy and the loser supervisor guy was good…

Not sure if it's a long term memory problem if you've never seen the shows. I'm not sure all or even a majority of these writers have seen all those shows. Which is evident in the compiling of this list.

Yes. Peep Show - "Wedding" would be my pick.

Robert David Sullivan did a top 100 list a couple of years ago. Of all time, but he didn't confine it to one episode per show, and it's a much better read than this.
http://robertdavidsullivan….

Actually Perry was earlier than that, in a great run of episodes about the VP towards the end of Season 4 and one in S5. (For what it's worth I really liked the Smits era. It's not quite the same show as S1-4, but the second half of S6 and all of S7 were thoroughly enjoyable with a number of very good episodes).

I didn't enjoy it either. I think episodes like this that take them out of the office just remind me of how old (relatively) Mindy and, especially, Danny are - too old for this broad and juvenile stuff. These are people in their mid-late 30s/early 40s who are partners in a medical practice, have been married and own…

The character inconsistencies are the thing that really grate on me with this show. There's a lot I still enjoy about it but they are so willing to trade off something we *know* about a character in order to make a joke or a funny scene, that they end up eroding the viewers' commitment to investing in those…

Even Cheers had a dip for a couple of seasons there.

I can't remember when they did the reveal about that story (the one with the videotape?) but it was brilliantly done in an otherwise lacklustre story line.

These 5 are great episodes. Genuinely. However, the other how-many-hundred can easily be skipped.

Good point. I also forgot about the time Dee ran for State's Attorney. But otherwise, I think we're good.

Got caught up on The Good Wife interspersing new episodes with classic episodes of Always Sunny. I feel this might be the perfect way to watch both shows, with little risk of overlapping plots.

I feel a bit the same way but I think really I'm just appalled (more accurately, depressed) by how young some of them are. Points of reference in terms of classics can change. I do pause when I see a few of the new writers mention how they haven't seen or read books, films or TV I would have thought fairly required…

I want to be more social in my pop culture consumption. Go see a movie with a friend instead of downloading it at home. Find people with similar interests to talk about TV with. Maybe even join a, ugh, book club.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are, de-fault, de-fault!

Quiz question: Is Mickey Flanagan the worst? No. The correct answer is Jimmy Carr. But it's a close call.

Pass the salts. I couldn't even work out from this article until I read the comments that it was a song they were talking about it. I thought was a saying. Maybe.

Agreed. But if I'm going to re-watch an episode, it wouldn't be a Christmas one. I think they did other holidays (including fictional ones) much better.

I don't think any of the 30 Rock Christmas episodes were particularly great. But I agree that "Christmas Special" was better than Ludachristmas.

Does it need to be a good Christmas? Because Peep Show "Seasonal Beatings" is my go-to Christmas episode. "Thank you centuries of emotional repression."