The Shows Mostly Formerly Affiliated with NBC's Thursday Night Comedy Block Thread **SPOILERS**

[GoGo Yubari]

Agreed. It's deeply frustrating that EVERY OTHER good NBC Thursday show is there but Community isn't. I have most of season three on DVR but not all of it, and I don't have season two on DVD as of yet (got season one at a Best Buy sale).

EDIT: In the interest of continuing to be the dividing line between the people who disliked it and the people who liked it, my two favorite jokes from the premiere;

1. Abed's treatment of Pierce in his inner mind theatre. It's very telling that he's first another guy entirely in the sitcom and then a character incapable of speech in Greendale Babies.

2. American Sword Cooks

[MalaCloudy Black]

I forgot about American Sword Cooks! HOW COULD I FORGET.

[apsham]

I liked Blond/Blind too.

[GoGo Yubari]

I sadly missed that one and haven't seen a good screencap of it.

[MalaCloudy Black]

[LL!]

It was Annie with sunglasses and feeling around and Britta guiding her.

Edit: Or that. ^^^

[GoGo Yubari]

Thank you. I'm pretty sure I saw that and then forgot it.

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Really good return for Community. It wasn't outstanding, but it just feels so good to have the show back.

[Josh]

That is a giant reason as to why Community needs to be available on Netflix streaming already damnit.

Jesus, god, this. Who distributes the show and who at that company do I have to sex to get the show on Netflix?

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

Yeah. I think Harmon's gone on record as saying he thinks Chevy was the right decision in the end. Of course, Pierce would have developed into a decidedly different character with Willard playing him anyway.

Also, just watched The Office. The Andy plot was good, but Brian the Sound Guy is wearing on my last nerve.

[TKz]

Rewatching Season 3 makes me appreciate the Troy/Britta thing happening a lot more. Definitely felt like there was way too much going on in the first episode of 4, though.

[apsham]

I was talking about this with someone on reddit - 02x01 and 03x01 weren't really strong episodes either, in my opinion but they served the purpose of basically stating "Some changes happened over the summer, and here's where we are going with this season" I think this one was just a bit more stuffed full of happenings because there was a lot of pressure on the new show runners to convince the audience that nothing was going to change.

[TKz]

Yeah, the writer guy had it right in that interview, they should have stuck to like, two different stories, rather than five. The Abed's Happy place stuff seemed a bit too glossed over for my liking. Last time this happened it was a full on mental breakdown and was treated as something serious, where as here it was just kind of like "Oh Abed, you so crazy."

[GoGo Yubari]

Yeah, but everyone was caught up in their own shit this time, which makes a sort of sense for the episode being about Abed's reluctance to accept change and having to solve the problem himself. Once people (other than Pierce) actually realized what was going on they were appropriately concerned.

[Josh]

I just noticed the tags in this thread. Tremendous.

[Benjamin]

Yes! Feel that the second episode of Community was sooooooo much better. Line of the night was definitely "Ghosts can't go through doors, stupid. It's not fire." I was mouthing the line as he said it

Parks and Rec hit another home run. Damn good episode, Ron Swanson is definitely my favorite character on TV right now.

[livid]

I liked last week's Community but it did feel like a different show. I'm not sure if it was because I expected it to be or if it actually was but it did feel different. Tonight, however, felt like it was the same show it was before Harmon left so I'm curious if it's just a case of the writers (since most of them are new to the show anyways) trying to get into a groove with the characters.

Parks & Rec was brilliant though and Ron Swanson is definitely the best character on TV.

"Any dog under 50 lbs. is a cat, and cats are pointless."

[GoGo Yubari]

Last week and this week's episodes both had veteran writers as the leads, ftr. Last week was Andy Bobrow, this week was Megan Ganz.

[livid]

Yeah, I knew Ganz wrote tonight's. I guess I didn't realize that Bobrow had been around for awhile, though. That said, I still think something was slightly off last week that seemed to have been corrected this week. I imagine it's not the end of any growing pains though too.

Speaking of Ganz, I'm happy she was able to find more (and probably more secure) work but Modern Family? Meh.

[Jimmy]

Community was good, but again had nothing on Parks which had another outstanding episode. They're just the most likeable cast on TV at the moment. I want next week's episode now.