Is that how bad the show is these days that this episode is considered “uniformly funny?” I found much of it cringe worthy and flat out embarrassing. 

the teacher sketch was odd in a not-good way. it didn’t seem to have any rhythm, it started oddly (the shot of the school was held a few seconds too long as though the actors weren’t in place) & i never got the joke. pacing, pacing, pacing people. the voting ad was great & adie sold the sleeping pill bit. i’m also a…

If the spinoff “Joey” had been called “Friend” it might have lasted longer.

I don’t know if I’d call it uniformly funny, but that Pete Davidson slap was hilarious in a very primal way, perfectly tapping into what a lot of people are feeling.

But Grossman keeps working as well as he does

Yes, that was an unusually talented writing staff. But you still can’t discount the cast’s ability to sell the material. As Doctorwhotb pointed out above, the Anthony Michael Hall/Robert Downey, Jr. season right before is typically listed as one of the show’s major train wrecks; much of the key writing staff of the…

Does no one remember the clip show from the Clerks cartoon? It was the second ep of the series so they just kept referencing the first ep over and over.

I’m really fond of Jane Curtin, but she always seemed like an aunt rolling her eyes at the juvenile proceedings, since the beginning. Not a prob, just an observation. She’s still aces.

That’s such a reach, it goes all the way around. 

When VH1 did their '90s and '00s SNL retrospectives, Lorne says that Tina was such a good head writer because "she understood that Britney, Paris, and Lindsay ran Hollywood." The 2000-2004 era is best known for the Bush vs. Gore stuff, but pop culture is all over those shows (E! Used to consistently show reruns of…

I’m of the opinion that Belushi would have faded away if he hadn’t died, as very little of his work has aged well at all, either on SNL or on film. I do remember reading a story in one of the SNL related books where he and his wife Judy were watching an SNL rerun, and a sketch with John and Jane came on. They watched…

NBC didn’t “send him packing.” The story goes that after five years he was exhausted and knew he was going to lose most of what was left of the original cast, and thus wanted an extended hiatus to retool and overhaul. NBC, which was in dire straits ratings wise at that time, weren’t prepared to jettison him at all -…

It is, but there’s a huuuuuuge gap where she should’ve been doing work more worthy of her talents.

When NBC took over and sent him packing, the show endured its worst ever era. I think that Lorne is a mixed bag. He creates an environment that forces some comedians to fight it to the top, and that’s produced some of the biggest and THE biggest names in comedy for the last 40+ years. Then again, that’s not the best…

Seriously.  Did he also completely fucking miss that Stan was in a sling the whole episode (because he was shot)?

They did mention the events of last week’s episode. Where do you think the sling on Stan’s arm came from? It was because he got shot last week.

I didn’t think they could have possibly smeared the make-up any thicker on Sara Hyland, but apparently, I was wrong.

Heads up, this might not be the final season. You might be in this for 2 more years. I’ve read they’re talking about doing more.

Ghosted 2.0 was a D for me. There was little redeeming about it, at all. Ghosted 1.0 was roughly in B- territory. It had promise, if they’d worked on editing some of the clearly improvised riffs between Robinson and Scott down.

This might be the biggest mess I’ve ever watched. I’ve seen bad shows, but this is different. This should have been good, but it looks like they really had no clue what they wanted to do but started production anyway. The finale actually justifies the first half of the show. Having Lieberstein turn this into “The…