Line delivery of the night:
"I don't like it…" - Nick Miller, in reference to a questionable bologna sandwich.
That killed me. In an episode where I laughed out loud, alone, more than I have this season. Do I have an explanation? No. Is this promising for the rest of the season? Absolutely.
PS: It was nice to see Nick…

Excuse me, Mozambique cashmere. Mongolian rugs were sooo March 2011.

…I'll allow it.

Oh, sorry, you're right, shit, there's the Secret Council of Non-Murricans now, with their weird foreign guns —- aaaaugh!

Genocide - I do not think it means what you think it means…

accurate.

To me it almost felt like they were working overtime to establish the new relationship dynamic as rote for the show so they could move past it and start writing actual stories again. The casualness with which it was handled this week makes it feel like this relationship is part of the framework now and things can…

I mean, I was playing for Team Trepidation for a while there, but was anyone out-and-out bashing this season who actually watched the previous two?

For real though. I replayed that a couple of times just to make sure I hadn't misheard it. And then started slow-clapping.

You can't explain that!

So… what are they actually going to do with Cece? Not that that's of the utmost importance at the moment, it's just… well she worked best as a foil/partner in crime to Schmidt, but they're definitely done, at least for a while, and I wouldn't have it any other way. On the other hand, Cece was Jess's erstwhile excuse…

"Let sleeping birds die" killed me the most out of this whole episode, for some reason. Jake Johnson's random mutterings will never not be hilarious.

This, and the fact that he seemed to almost feel worse for having succeeded in duping both Cece and Elizabeth in light of Beth's attempts at sabotage were what saved his arc tonight for me. That said, I'd be glad to see this problem rectified in "Double Date" next week.

The best thing about this episode was watching how Nick's dynamic with the rest of the loft has shifted since he and Jess started dating; I feel like we're seeing more of Chicago Nick now… bonus points for that clear look of not-uncomfortable sympathy he shot her when she said she didn't have any friends at her new…

I wonder if that's not entirely impossible… she did dick around in the Doctor's timeline quite a bit, perhaps the weirdness of her storyline is the result of timey-wimey side-effects from crossing one's own (i.e. the Doctor's) timeline? Or maybe that's just my residual dissatisfaction with how her plot was resolved…

Only in The Darkest Timeline.

Perhaps that was the plan all along. Someone noticed the start of an inevitable decline in Season 3 and deliberately sabotaged Season 4 so that expectations could start from scratch in Season 5. IT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION THAT MAKES SENSE.

Probably the only thing that could justify its existence, honestly.

Definitely gotta put in some VSA love there. I always appreciate when shows go for big emotional payoffs, even if the road there is a little rocky. At least they had the stones not to undercut it. Definitely top 3.

Definitely gotta put in some VSA love there. I always appreciate when shows go for big emotional payoffs, even if the road there is a little rocky. At least they had the stones not to undercut it. Definitely top 3.