… I may have stayed up all night to binge-watch the entire first season for the first time. I don't actually remember the last time I was this excited for a season premiere. These characters are magical unicorns from the grimy moral armpit of purgatory and I could not love them more.

This was easily an A- for me. I tend to be more impressed by a very well-done filler episode than a "pretty good" episode that actually has ramifications for the larger plot, as I feel like it's a harder feat to pull off. This was an excellent filler episode - hilarious one-liners or dialogues everywhere, from pretty…

Danny's face…

"To prove Lana wrong" was definitely my thought on motive.

Bridge too far, Core Concept. A one-lane bridge toooo far.

Yeah, I took the "suuuuuper" to mean that they were actually cisgender, which meant he owed them each 20K baht which he clearly didn't have and was going to catch hell for that. Or, at the very least, that it was up to the viewer to decide whether it was the revelation of male or female sex organs that he was…

I'm guessing they have to be American?
Heartbeat - Buddy Holly

Wild World - Cat Stevens

Exactly!

I think that's exactly it; she's actually secretly a bit of an asshole herself, but hangs out with these assholes so she can right the high-and-mighty train to I'm-A-Good-Person Town. I never really thought she was the conscience of the show, she just follows the rules to feel better about herself.

I have to say, after meeting him in person, it's easy to see where Abed comes from. Abed's like all of Danny Pudi's normal body mannerisms wound a bit tighter and delivered with a completely flat affect; I feel like he got to be closer to his normal self in this episode, so that was cool.

For some reason, I didn't start tearing up until LeVar Burton showed up.

I mean, not to read too much into a show that is often deliberately misleading with it's foreshadowing, but between Winged Hussar's hypothesis (i.e. "if Lana wound up impregnating herself with the seed of an existing character") seeming comedically likely and Lana's desire for danger apparently trumping her pregnancy,…

… Blob Marley! Yeah…

So, this doesn't seem to be a popular opinion but my biggest laugh of the night was at Chang's backwards churro walk.
Yup.
Anyone else?
Bueller?

The last scene sold it, but the darkness started to creep in for me when Stan went to ask Wendy to hop on the bandwagon. I don't know why, but that whole interchange just really rang true for me, and was subsequently kind of extra depressing.

If they're pillaging writers from Castle, this show makes so much more sense now. At least the constantly unearned drama was undercut by quirky murders and Nathan Fillion's Personal Charisma Stockpile.

Well, if she actually managed to get Legionnaire's disease, that's a bacterial infection similar to pneumonia that would definitely cause a high fever, and Nick did say she was delirious… but fevers aren't exactly instant, so that's where my suspension-of-disbelief bubble popped. Still, not a deal-breaker.

My favorite Ben reaction was when Tom told him he won the blue t-shirt. If I am ever as excited about anything as Ben was about an oversized scrap of fabric nabbed for $5 at a Hobby Lobby, I will have nothing left to achieve in life.
"So things are looking up already, huh?"
"YEAH!" /paraphrase

Definitely A-, if not a solid A for me.
Aaaah, what the hey. Let's make it an A. Laughed like crazy, generally good chemistry, every character was utilized.
But then I'll be kicked out of the TV club….
So A-. I guess.