Did you slip into a coma in 2002 and are just now awakening?  If so, I have a little thing to tell you about called "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis".

You're one ugly motherfu……

Holy crap!  Has it really been 5 (and almost 1/2) years since your "Rain Man, Revisited" article?  I just clicked the link a re-read it, and scrolled down to check if I commented on it (I did, under a different name).  Of all the things that have totally blown me away about the passage of time in the past couple of…

The sad part is, there will never be another 30 rock.  A laugh a second, old-school-type comedy with a heart and a brain.

I have thought about it that way…almost like the British model for comedies.  2-4 seasons and then they're out, except for a few notable exceptions (Peep Show).

@avclub-f41c98ac606e9b29fce2d59f71df434d:disqus Yes.

I picture it more like the mental institution scene from Community….except with more euthanizations.

I think the winds of change are blowing it in that direction.   The show is shedding viewership with each airing.  (See this is how I do this. I've already accepted it's going to be gone within the next 2 years)

I mean, seriously they should just reject pilots based on the ones the commenters over here like.  It would be a great strategy for them.

I've already accepted that anything that I think is funny on network TV will be die a premature, unceremonious death.  It's easier to live this way.

Not enough Scientology in there.

Or how Battlestar Galactica ended half way through the final episode.

If you're a fan of shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, then picture if those shows still had the same amazing characters but then quickly went off the rails and became totally implausible.

I heard an early version of that joke (pretty sure the set-up used to involve him and his brother burning down their tree-house or something and the punch had his father actually tying off) at The Comedy Cellar in 2009 and I spent the next few days quietly chuckling to myself about it.  I had never heard of him before…

"One of the ways that Fresh Meat is sneaky smart for an apparently trifling show is that “kids who make mistakes” is just about the only thing that it's willing to say about its characters."

Enlightened has been a show that I've had those "you'd really love it.  Let's go watch it" moments with while out a night or with a friend or with a lady-friend.  I've probably watched the first season 4 times since it aired (though I never saw an original airing- I started watching the night the finale aired because…

The exclamation points really hammered home your point.  Thanks for making your sarcastic enthusiasm clear by laying into the "1" button while also holding "shift".  It's helpful for us idiots that like good TV.

The crime is called "Rape by False Pretenses" and it is very real.

ummm….zindubitably!

Also, @inko8:disqus I miss your old Avatar.  I liked getting trenchant insights into pop cultural minutiae from a plush toy.