Weirdly, the difference that's most apparent to me between seasons is that the Dean doesn't wear costumes yet.

I'll be up to D&D tomorrow in my daily watch, so about halfway through S2, and it's seemed strange to me all season how normal the Dean is dressing. The parade of costumes works as a joke in Paradigms of Human Memory, so in my head Season 2 is chock full of wacky Dean getups but so far nsm. I'll be paying attention to how that works going forward.

I don't know if I should get into my problems with Harmon's commentaries if you haven't watched them yet. I wouldn't want to prime the pump of dissatisfaction if I am unfairly overreacting. Which I probably am, I do that. Suffice it to say, I wanted him to STFU when he was talking about the show and the characters, and at least since he's off the show he won't be doing commentaries for it in the future so, hooray for new show runners.

I think you linked to that performance artist in Natter at some point, I didn't realize it was the same guy.

I'm at the Halloween episode, and there's been at least two costumes, maybe three so far. Octoberfest, this, and maybe the space simulation. They've had plot-related reasons, but they're setting the familiarity.

Ah, maybe it's the plot-relatedess that is confusing me. Really, every time I see him in a shirt and tie it seems a little wrong, so I'm probably registering all that accumulated pereceived wrongness more than actual lack of costumes.

every time I see him in a shirt and tie it seems a little wrong,

What was Most Wrong was him in casual clothes (clearly Imitation Jeff casual clothes) in Studies in Modern Movement.

No, that was all kinds of right for (let's call blackmail) A Day at the Mall with Craig!

Hahahaha! He just looked so...in drag. Seriously.

Totally a Jeff costume, yeah. Which is awesome.

I;m not usually a commentary watcher, and it sounds like I shouldn't make an exception for Community, right? Unless there are specific eps one of you would recommend?

Most of the commentaries are great, actually. I just skip any with Chevy Chase.

I paused the data overlay screens in the RoboBitch episode, and Abed notes that he's charting the women's cycles (next episode), that he wants Starburns on T&A AM (tag), and that he wants to build a pillow fort (two episods in). As well as evolving episode synopses. Not sure why I hadn't checked that before.

Also reminders to record Cougar Town and to get Rudolph for Dec 9. There is a lot of detail in those.

I don't know that I could recommend any of the commentaries if you don't already like watching commentaries, Lee. And the ones I liked best, I remember that they were really interesting but not which episodes they were for. Choosing based on who is on them is wise, though - avoid Chevy Chase and the one from, I think, season 2 that lists Robert Smigel I really hated a lot.

Oh, ha, might as well confess that after I watched Cooperative Calligraphy I bought a dozen purple pens with gel grips. Because I could.