NBC could have picked up Greg Daniels' adaptation of Friday Night Dinner last year which had Alison Janney. Unfortunately, they passed - in favor of stuff like Animal Practice and that Dane Cook comedy they never aired.

It'll be on FXX (the new, second FX which was formerly Fox Soccer) in the fall.

He has another pilot for NBC that's in contention.

Chris D'Elia stars in another NBC pilot that's considered a fairly likely pickup (Undateable).

Bent was arguably the best comedy NBC has launched since Community and Parks. Which isn't saying much, but seriously, it was good.

I thought you liked the first half? I feel like there clearly was a drop-off post-wedding, which suggest that part of the problem was the fact that they had planned towards a series finale midway through and then didn't have a lot to work with for the back half.

Judge Snyder: "This court rules Mr. Burns is Bart's biological father!"

Bland episode, but in case anyone's curious why (both in this episode and the last one) the closing tags have disappeared, according to Sepinwall it's an NBC edict the shows run straight through the credits because research apparently shows people are less likely to change the channel between shows.

I still enjoy the show, but it definitely takes on a different feel post-S3 (and frankly, you can start seeing hints of that in S3 itself).

I actually have much preferred S5 so far to S4. I find myself rarely wanting to rewatch an episode from S4 - there were a few great ones, but overall the humor just seemed more forced.

Has anybody seen Adventureland, that 2009 coming-of-age movie with Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart? The aesthetic seemed pretty accurate, and the girls were pretty hot. (Of course, it was Kristin Stewart, but still…)

Little worried this was going to be another "Niagara." Glad it wasn't.

They were supposed to be aired back-to-back (that is, last week's and this week's).

The only thing about Rock Show is that while it's the first really good Parks episode, it feels more like a S2 Office episode than Parks. Pawnee Zoo is where Parks as we know it came into being.

This is like Jackie Jormp-Jomp…

Doesn't it seem a little odd that they spent three seasons making a big deal of Andy and Erin getting together and then blow them up this year?

I love how in that movie, AOL email is a novelty and big-box book stores are crushing everything. It's quite quaint.

WHOA, Lycos still exists?

OT, but I actually sort of got annoyed with how the library thing was handled last season — what I thought was so funny about it was how it was this absurd little intra-governmental rivalry, then in Season 4, Leslie's campaigning against the library in her speeches. I thought it kind of ruined the joke.

On the Season 3 dvds, there's a hilarious set of deleted scenes from "Road Trip" where they show an extended clip of Ron puffing a cigarette and discussing the raccoons issue with Perd Hapley in the '80s. (An extended version of the same clip of Perd with a flat-top.)