As much as I adore Chance Briggs (and Offerman himself), what this episode really needed to end on was Owen ripping his head off. That would have been the ultimate capper (and a terrific exit for the character).

Right. Birdemic is funny, but everything about it can be explained by 'it's cheap' or 'they're inexperienced'. The Room is something else entirely.

Man, American stand-ups are still just awful. And these are funny people - people who have written and starred in great sitcoms, but give them a mic and the humour just disappears. (Meanwhile, British stand up/sitcoms at the moment are pretty much the other way around - people who are very funny by themselves on stage…

There's already lots of those in Amsterdam.

For the love of GOD, someone hire him to make a slavery movie.

It's not really about watching it ironically; The Room is a truly fascinating piece of film. It is so astonishingly bad that it is completely engaging. It's utterly hilarious that it could possibly get made, and made more funny by the total conviction given to the whole piece by Wiseau in all his roles. Anyone…

*ahem*

But there's been shifts in focus and quality within the same darn season. Both seasons 5 and 6 started out very promisingly but moved onto plots that don't really add up for the characters, aren't particularly interesting or funny, and aren't even that fresh.

Indeed, that's one area where 12 Angry Men really failed as a piece of artwork. Think about how many Troy reaction shots they could have got into that film.

Yeah, one of the most disappointing things about this episode is that it's episode 12. It should feel epic, it should feel PENULTIMATE. It doesn't have to be part 1 of 2, but it should at least be part 12 of 13.

Some of them were very long, though, running at about 4 minutes I'm sure.

I think it's more just a question of finding stuff the writers know how to do. They generally know how to do concept episodes (a cynic would say it's because it's already been done by the people they'ring parodying- I mean, homaging). For me, the first half of the season was very strong, and it didn't have any…

Spot on! Very little worked in the first half of the episode (the Hitler and codependency moments were good-ish), but the second half just kicked completely into gear. Some damn good stuff in the back end of the story. Where was it all at the start? (It's not even like it was all setup - the stuff in the apartment had…

Before they actually got to the wedding I was thinking this episode was fitting into the disappointing downturn this season has taken since about its midpoint (Paintball excepted, of course). But once they started getting in everyone's way it got much stronger (and, as you say, Elroy's 'white people affirming' was…

He just married his cousin.

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Not so much the last line, but the closing song for Parks and Recreation. 'End of the Line' is a terrific song, and has been used well for other shows' finales (looking at you, 'One Foot In The Grave'), but it wasn't used well there. After a great finale, it deflated it for me. The intro starts up before the episode…

Awesome. My Yank friends, that's your homework for the weekend. It's both Politics and British Studies, and it's awesome.

I don't know where Americans can watch it, but Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (don't watch the remake) are terrific, and make for one of the funniest (and certainly the most intelligent) sitcoms of all time.

You're a monster.