Yeah, he was a bit milquetoast there for a while, but it seems like he’s getting cranked up again. I’m ready for it!

Is... is colbert stepping it up? Is he finally coming back to us??

Is that “get a raise” like, “we’re going to base your raise on an arbitrary and totally subjective evaluation from a supervisor who barely knows you let alone the job(s) you’re killing yourself over, so here’s 0.1%” or like, “you’ve done a lot of hard work this year so here’s a raise! BTW, that ‘hard work’ is now…

Also, it does say “A raise,” as in ONE raise, versus “vacations” plural. No brainer!

I know that cuz I am a musical GENIUS!

Came here for this!!! I cannot describe to you how hard I laughed the first time I saw that episode. Goddamn, that show was the best.

I don’t think it’s that “no one told these people,” it’s that we’ve all been screaming it at the top of our lungs for months and they just say, “well, that’s just your opinion,” and turn up Fox News

This is an amazing comparison. I had parks and rec on a continuous loop for a while there, but I was in danger of getting sick of it, so I switched to a West Wing rewatch. Talk about halcyon! The pre-9/11 era of the first couple seasons seems like an alien culture now...

Same. Also all I can think of is this:

It’s baffling. Chalking it up to not wanting to offend and lose access to sources just doesn’t seem like enough anymore. How can anyone sit and listen to this drivel and not react? Maybe they aren’t really listening? If it’s just clicks they’re after, wouldn’t a serious takedown of one of these clowns break the…

YES, all of the stars! This is the exact appropriate response.

Thank you for reminding me to do this. It really did help

Exhaustion is settling in. Sigh.

(Man, I probably shouldn’t even post this. I almost didn’t watch the season season of this show because this opener legitimately scared the shit out of me, post-election)

Parks and Rec is still the most socially relevant comedy. They even time travelled to the future (aka now) to keep that title.

Beat me to it!

Glorious

CANNOT STAR THIS ENOUGH

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