I felt a little disappointed by the episode, but only because I (stupidly) let myself get excited by the prospect of Charlie Day hosting.  Somehow I expected an episode of Seinfeld Apartment-level sketches — one of the funniest in ages — and that was never going to happen.

While Keven's irrational fear of it was a bit much — that character has just become the dumping ground for every lame tic that strikes the writers' fancy — the whole Bobbum Man routine had me in stitches.  Korean Dick Vitale and, to a lesser extent, Crawdad Man were also hilarious.

Genoa + the Salami

I might've given this one a solid B+ but for the constant barrage of minced oaths toward the end. Brilliant, and totally underplayed.  I was in stitches.

There is no irony in his voice, nor originality in his soul.

Anyone know if there's a sitcom codicil to Poe's Law?

When I hear the words "James Franco," I reach for my gun.

What you have to understand is that Community is perhaps the most important television show ever to have graced our humble screens, while P&R is just a regular ol' show.

No, that was a tit.

Didn't she mention to Jimmy's wife in the first episode that she used to "kiss his pee-pee" when he was a baby?

There were a lot of great moments in this show — the sketching of Harrow, Chalky's rebellion against his own successes, Mama Darmody beating up a stroke victim, the Philly butcher shop, anything with AR, the Tits at the Ritz — and the theme of the half-face gets the ol' wheels turning, but I'm not sure what it all…

I'm not sure my reaction to this episode makes sense (warning: cold medicine &/or rye whiskey may have played a role in the formation of my opinion).  On the one hand, this episode seems considerably more well put together than the pilot, what with things happening in a discernible temporal sequence, and doing so in a…

"But you left out the best part!"

The reveal of Gus' Two-Face/Terminator skull & the close up on the Lily of the Valley were the only thing that keeps this from an A+.

You know what you need, Boardwalk Empire viewer?  You need more bush shots of Paz de la Huerta.

Wasn't the second Killers album — a band which, by the way, is the clear forerunner of Foster the People both in terms of being a radio-friendlification of other  bands with more 'cred' and of having a frontman who looks like he has no earthly idea what to do on a stage — pretty clearly aiming for Bossitude?

Yeah, Kenny G appearances notwithstanding, I love it when bands make good use of a horn section.  TVotR does it better than most.

About the Kenny G appearance: when sax solos started popping up on the kind of Pitchfork-approved music that Foster the People so dearly wishes to ape, I mostly welcomed it.  It was a sort of no-apologies aural pleasure-seeking.  Nice!  Cut Copy's "Hearts on Fire" was the first song where I noticed it, but just in the…

I'm not gonna front like the sexy maid won't play a role in my decision to watch next week.

I'm pretty sure it's already off the rails; what's unlikely, but maybe worth staying tuned for a few more episodes for, is the possibility that it finds the rails before it gets the ax.  
And by "the rails," I mean getting some kind of grip on the plot such that scenes are strung together into storylines, and…