Parks and Rec had two stars who had some residual good will to help it (Poehler from SNL and Upright Citizens Brigade, Ansari from Human Giant and his stand-up), where AD has only McFarlane's cache.  Patrick Stewart aside, it doesn't even get great guest voices.  Its as much a problem that McFarlane's name is attached…

Although I think you are correct in that it differentiated itself from FG quite early in its run, it did rely on Stan's politics to drive plots for most of the first and part of the second season.  Season 3 mostly abandoned it and the show became more of what it is today.  

I did like the 'who's on first' bit that preceded that.  I guess I should expect to find a few jokes that fall flat if an episode is going to have so many, but I find it hard to believe that the writers would have such odd lapses in quality of writing.  I forgive the laziness of those jokes, but it doesn't mean they…

It is obviously too early to make too many predictions about this system's long term prospects, but I think the Vita will have at least one selling point that Nintendo won't match: online experience.  I hate saying never mind the PSPGo and the PSN outage, but never mind the PSPGo and the PSN outage and look at PSN. …

I have a 3ds and some of the titles (Star Fox, Resident Evil, Mario Bros.) are definitely as good as console titles.  Even so, I would feel like a dork busting out the 3ds on the train everyday.  No one, however, knows that I am reading AVclub and playing Angry Birds on my smart phone. 

IF you get an older model DS, you have access to tons of great games for the DS and GBA.  If you are willing to go outside the legal accessories, you can get rewritable DS cards that will get you access to more or less any game ever made for it. 

What did everyone else think about Stan turning into a black guy at the end?  It felt like a mediocre joke in an episode that had too many absurdly funny jokes in it.  

I was ready for the joke of Stan nodding off in mid-kill to ware off, but they always found the right way to cap it. 

Is it just me, or has Roger really upped the perversions this season?  I thought tricking Steve into making out with him was odd, but that joke was seemingly a new level of weird behavior for him. 

Its early incarnation as a Family Guy with more political humor really doesn't really help.  Granted, people forgive mediocre starts to other shows, but AD really has trouble shaking its reputation as just another McFarlane show. 

I said it elsewhere, but season 5 presents the best argument that it is approaching Futurama's levels of greatness. 

It was a great premiere, but this show always suffers for its lack of Stevie Jenowski.  Thankfully, he returns next week.  

I like a lot of those episodes, but it is really odd to make an entire list that is entirely post season 10. 

One of those shows is not like the other. 

Joy of Sect
You Only Move Twice
Marge be not proud
A Fish Called Selma
Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Treehouse of Horror 5
Lemon of Troy
And Maggie Makes Three
Homer's Enemy
Mother Simpson

I was referring to Chicago pizza and wanted to praise NY-style, but thankfully you acknowledged you were trolling, @avclub-a8cf86b7e95be74b1204e22a9aab9cd0:disqus .  Who else but a troll would criticize NY-style pizza when so many obvious targets exist? 
To return to my original point, pizza has enough variety that…

Duck Phillips never gets what he wants, does he?

Having lost too many their/there to spellcheck, I should have known better than to trust it.  When you break down the grammatical rules, it makes perfect sense that it would be 'behalf.'  Needless to say, I am ambiggened by your vote of crommulence, K. Thrace. 

Robo-Duck Phillips still unable to defecate on Don's desk. 

It almost seems too easy to have her husband get killed overseas.  I don't know that the show does the sort of justice where a hated character gets what the audience wants to happen to him.