I love The Office. Really.

lisah, my awakeness cut off, about halfway through.

Kevin, are you all caught up on season 3, now?

I finally watched all of 30 Rock, and Scrubs.

If Alec Baldwin does leave 30 Rock, or the country, or whatever, I think they could make the show with Elaine Stritch, instead. She's wonderful. I'm glad Phoebe is gone. The character didn't work for me.

The break-up was sad, but comedically sad. I think they shouldn't have written him out so quickly, but it definitely had that patina of frustration that long-distance relationships can accrue so fast. "Can we talk about something other than work?" that lead into the weather was just so sad, but also so true.

Yes.

Scrubs was sweet. I also enjoyed Turk, Carla and Kelso having one over on Cox. I have a complaint about this season (and maybe last, I can't remember), though. Too much of the stuff that used to be clearly portrayed as happening in JD's head, now seems to actually happen to other characters, too. In this instance, it was the whatever-that-was with Elliot and the Keri Russell character, when they first ran into each other -- and squeed up a wind tunnel. Also, I wanted to see Carla do something about the Janitor ghosting pediatrics.

If Alec Baldwin does leave 30 Rock, or the country, or whateve

Sorry, I'm down on my celeb gossip--is that really a possibility? Because of that voicemail message or whatever?

something about the Janitor ghosting pediatrics.

oh, that was hilarious! in a horrific amusement way!

I liked the recent Scrubs where we got into the heads of the other characters, FWIW.

I think she means that the stuff that's supposed to be JD's fantasy, like the wind tunnel, seem to actually be happening instead of just in his head. There's not that clean break as there always used to be.

I liked the focus on the secondary/tertiary characters too.

Sorry, I'm down on my celeb gossip--is that really a possibility? Because of that voicemail message or whatever?

Well, I don't know. I know he's saying he wants to leave. NBC is saying, "No." It's been reported various places, and P-C mentioned it here: Polter-Cow "Experimental TV: Comedy" Apr 26, 2007 5:31:06 pm PDT

I think she means that the stuff that's supposed to be JD's fantasy, like the wind tunnel, seem to actually be happening instead of just in his head. There's not that clean break as there always used to be.

Yes, that's what I meant. It didn't just seem like JD's fantasy-JD and Turk were experiencing the wind tunnel, but that actual JD Turk were. It's happened a lot this season (and maybe last).

I liked the recent Scrubs where we got into the heads of the other characters, FWIW.

Me, too.

I seem to recall from a commentary by creator-dude that they are softening the "Hey, this is a fantasy sequence" cuts in recent seasons on the assumption that viewers will know by now that that's just in JD's head.

Oh, my goodness. I just finished the scene where Michael goes to Staples to get Dwight. It was both hilarious in its homage to Officer and a Gentleman and sweet. Also, Michael's dawning recognition of what a jackhole Andy is was really well played. This show, this show. Back to catching up I go...

Kevin, are you all caught up on season 3, now?

Yep, all caught up. Bananas!

I did an Office season 3 and BSG season 3 (second half) marathon in one weekend, and I gotta say, The Office marathon was the fun bit. BSG doesn't quite match.