One of my former roomies practically viewed watching it as a religious experience. I'll admit some of the stuff occasionally struck me as funny (mostly Elaine's antics with J. Peterman), but it was definitely not a sitcom designed with my sensibilities in mind.

Though I suppose I should be thankful it got me to root for the eventual Stanley Cup champions in my first year of hockey fandom.

sj,

I think we all have an episode that did it for us. I thought some eps were mildly amusing, but the ep with the cigar store Indian statue was just not at all funny to me. The show didn't become funny again to me after that.

But I also am not a "Friends" fan either.

t continuity geek

I was pimping Community to Juliana this afternoon, and I made her watch the second ep, and I noticed that during the epic Spanish presentation, Pierce was wearing a tiny hat at one point. During the last ep, that tiny hat was one of the items recovered from the monkey.

t /continuity geek

I thought that was the tiny hat involved in the frog fiasco.

Me too, but nope--this was a bigger tiny hat.

Thanks, Vonnie -- I'd forgotten the translation humor in that scene! What an outstanding example of stage fencing, physical humor and feats, foreign language humor and reaction shots.

Btw, bon, thanks for pimping Archer. This last season was one of the best and funniest I've ever seen on TV. Just incredibly funny and incredibly consistent.

omg Archer. D thinks he's going to be bionic next season.

D thinks he's going to be bionic next season.

Are you kidding? He won't even negotiate with cyborgs.

I finally watched last week's Glee. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that, since they apparently have no idea how show choir competitions actually work, they wouldn't have any idea how Academic Decathlon works, either.