Parks and Recreation
--Oatmeal Ann and Catfish Ann each more beautiful than the last.--Sperm Bank of America and Sewage Joe great little scene
--Fleetwood Mac Sex Pants
--Part of the reason I love Leslie is that she won't allow common sense or re-measured expectations to diminish her enthusiasm or drive.
--Sick Chris FTW!
--"I have voided more than Tom's body weight in the last twelve hours alone."
--Love April playing Leslie. Topless Park.
--"My God. I have driven Ann right into the belly of the Douche."
--"My idea of a perfect family doesn't include a soulmate"
--"What's more cuterous than your uterus?"
--Andy is the best and truly brings out the best in April. Love them.
The Office
--Evil Andy kinda rocks.--Still hate everything that the boom operator touches.
--It's uncanny how much I am enjoying the fighting between Pam and Jim. Those beats are played as naturalistically as their unrequited romance was in the early seasons.
--Can't believe even for a second that Andy being gone for three months wouldn't be noticed. The bonus check pushes it over the limit.
Community
--The filmed in front of a live studio audience but worked better on Scrubs.--Greendale Babies is brilliant though.
--Troy and Britta are a thing, I think. Not sure what to make of the fountain bit.
--Fred Willard as Pierce was inspired.
--Chevy trying to come up with a ball joke was funny.
--One of you will tell me what the hell we just did, right?
--This would have tonally fit in with any other Community season, though there was a smack of desperation--that they were trying too hard.
1600 Penn
--The only thing about this show that doesn't work is Josh Gad and Skip. I hate that.--Jenna Elfman is the bomb.
--The first bit of Xander/Marigold development since the pilot. This is a good thing.
--Becca is a little hard to take at times, though "I'm their loser friend" was funny.
--Xander's campaign speech was great. Very Max from Parenthood.
--The "caucus" devolving into internal battles was pretty spot on. Is Gilchrist a Republican? Does it matter?
--I've loved how the show refuses to engage in the unwed mother and now it takes liberal demagoguery on as well.
Archer
--Lots of allusions to Midnight Run.--Archer and Ron on the road together is great.
--Don't care for the Ron Cadillac backstory. Not needed. Wish he wasn't as compromised as the rest of the cast.
--Though I love Top Chef's Kevin as the cross dressing, kidnapper.
--Jon Waters directing the Road Warrior.
Legit
--My favorite episode since the pilot: funny, wrong, and oh so right.--The date sequence was great. Jeffries just riffing on relationships and the like.
--"I could never have sex with something I respect."
--Love the entire airplane sequence. Loved all the passengers and how they took pro- or con- Jim positions. What a great sense of community that was developed in just a few moments.
--Mindy Sterling as the mom is pretty great, though I find it difficult to believe that she is old enough to have Dan Bakkedahl as a son.
--"Window gets an armrest and the wall. Middle gets two armrests. Aisle gets an armrest and little bit of extra leg. We are not animals. We live in a society."
--Glad to see the black nurse from the pilot will be back in the series from here on out.
--The gays not blacks sequence at the baggage check out was hysterical.
Suburgatory
--Tessa becomes the producer of Teen Talk, which becomes Body Talk when Ryan Shay has to become a last minute host and he turns it into a discussion of his body.--Ryan's afterschool activities include: modelling, nude modelling and boy band practice
--"His pediatrician says exhaustion."
--"Talk to my glutes, they're all ears"
--"I always thought it would be Seacrest."
--The Dallas-East Chatswin plot did little good for the adults (the godfather?, living in the car?), but did give Dahlia some great bits
--"When I want to get hydrated, I like to take drinks through my mouth."
--I'm a little disturbed that more than half the student body of East Chatswin are minorities, but love that it shows the relative colorblindness of today's youth. "Everyone at my new school is tanner than me."
--Loved East Chatwin versions of Malik, Mr. Wolfe and especially Tessa.
--The fight between Tessa and Ryan was incredibly real and right on time. I'm surprised at how beautifully the show is portraying the growing relationship between the two. It's touching and just right in every beat.
Modern Family
--A pretty good episode.--Luke attacking Lily is a good thing.
--"No batteries in her mic."
--"I know how he got sick--from chewing all the scenery."
--Anger motivating both Phil and Mitchell to success makes me uncomfortable.
--Pepper was dialed back a bit, and I appreciate that.
--The psychic bit was belabored as was the happy family (Haley, Dylan, Lily, baby) right under Claire's nose.
--The "Cats in the Cradle" bit was great, though it is impossible for Phil to have never heard of the song before.
The Middle
--This season the show has been on fire.--I love what they have been doing to humanize Axl.
--The iPad bit was a little forced. I understand Brick's desire, but the thought they wouldn't have to buy Brick another book is misguided and wrong.
--Loved everything with Sue. The smile to tears, the winning of the respect of her teacher, etc. All great.
The Neighbors
--Haven't watched this since the first two episodes, except in passing. The show has gotten much funnier.--Solid laughs from both mothers as they tried to invade their kids private lives.
--And from the dads as they prepared to battle.
--Or it could have been a fevered memory.
We're back with a brand new SNL. And for the second time this season, the host is also the musical guest. Earlier this fall we were treated to a pretty good episode with Bruno Mars, but how will Bieber do? He was the musical guest a few years back when Tina Fey was hosting, and he appeared in a few sketches to some notice. And of course he appeared in an arc on CSI but that ended with him dying in a blaze of gunfire. While nothing quite that dramatic should happen, based on his other work I would expect that he should have a good sense of humor about him.
