I actually hope they shift Abed into Troy's seat, placing him next to Buzz. I think we need Buzz's mix of insanity, fair play, and realism to balance out Abed. No more enabling.

Top twenty, yes. Top ten is harder not because it isn't good but because I'd want my top ten to have a broad sample of types of episodes… and this is probably too much like the paintball episodes. If I included this and all three paintball episodes in my top ten, it would push out too many good episodes of different…

The downside?

What I like is that while Pierce was always the butt of the joke, ignorant to his own tragedy, Buzz pre-emptively makes the joke and then makes you feel sad for him with these anecdotes about not being able to afford his mother's burial and his son demanding a $50,000 wedding.

Maybe she's upset that he seduced her over the internet to get pancakes.

Knock knock.

It depends on whether they stick with it but what I got from my second viewing is that Abed's death and cloning rebooted him to Season 1 Abed.

There have been cases where the odds didn't account for a single large buyer using agents for a single jackpot. An Australian researcher won $1.3 million a year for 20 years based on a $5 million mass purchase of Virginia lottery tickets in 1992.

Best episode since Season 2.

Barney has been earning 16 craploads (American) a year and spending one crapload a year on suits for a net of 15 a year. He started at AltruCell (the parent company of GNB) in 1998. So he's been doing this for 15 years by the show's timeline. Which makes his net worth 225 craploads to Robin's 4000 craploads.

BTW, still hoping for Kyle MacLachlan and Ray Wise to have a scene together before the end. Golfing buddies, maybe? Singing Mairzy Dotes together?

Her age isn't a huge issue as many artists are old or dead before becoming famous. My bigger issue is that they established repeatedly that nobody, not even Marshall, respects her art or even her eye for art. That the Captain does (and he's nuts) tells us maybe we shouldn't either.

My impression was that Barney was working with the government from a point before day 1 at GNB. He set himself up as the fall guy in a fifteen year scheme to bring down GNB.

Was it perfect? Maybe not.

Over half of the actors from later series were fans.

Yeah. They did it in S4.

Incidentally, I don't think all the gags were cheap. Mainly just the repetition of the semen cannister gag and then the "cause of death" gag.

Maybe but I felt like last week's Fincher homage was probably more original and Pierce's death touched me more there.

This was Pierce's gift to Abed:

So Abed is hooking up with Annie? (Because this episode not only had A/A fodder for the first time since S3 but Troy would be the Luke to Annie's Leia AND Abed's Han.) Heck, the question of who Annie dates has always been one of who was the Han Solo-iest. Jeff's default setting often reverts to Han. Abed can do a…