Okay, I just read this article about the rise of multiple camera sitcoms: [link] and it made me feel like a snobby hipster for disagreeing with everything they have to say, even including their singling out (ha ha pun) of New Girl as breaking the formula. I mean, the article is just 180 for me.

I want community¹ (no pun this time) and I want the single camera things, and I don't actually want them to do reshoots based on the studio audience. Good lord.

eta ¹: I'm not sure what the position on community is--it would seem it's a multi-camera artefact, but the placement in the article confuses me.

Parks and Rec is back, hooray!

I don't really have anything to say about tonight's episode, but it was delightful.

I don't know if anyone is interested in the Troy and Abed mugs, but they're back on sale in the NBC Universal store. They were unavailable for a fairly long while after I got mine.

Right. I need to see if Parks & Rec is on Netflix Instant.

Somehow I don't think of P&R as an ita ! show.

On a different topic, which do you think are better--the 3 Community Halloween eps, or the 3 Christmas eps?

I think the s2 Halloween is my favorite of all of them, but the Christmas eps as a group have been stronger.

I think the Halloween eps are funnier. I think the Xmas eps are good but I haven't found them funny.

I think the s2 Halloween is my favorite of all of them, but the Christmas eps as a group have been stronger.

Yeah, I can't argue with that.

Parks and Rec is single-camera, so it stands a chance! I don't think it has the joke density of Arrested Development or Better Off Ted. What it mostly has going for it is that the comedy and the plots are strongly rooted in character. It did take a while to find its feet that first season iirc, but then it just kept building - this last season was great. In a totally different way from how this last season of. Community was great, but they kind if complemented each other well, somehow. I'm a little sad they aren't on back-to-back anymore.

My sister is having a "Hey! AD!"-gasm over Community, so I sent her my confusion shortly after watching AD myself, and she's using it as a checklist as she goes.

This is in a separate post because Chevy Chase's own words usually (and no different from normal) make me throw up in my mouth a little: [link]

Faux-by was on L A Complex! Performing at a bar mitzvah, even.

That article was funny ,ita. It's funny when people call Chevy a comedy genius.(Although my brother seriously thinks that's so...sometimes I think I'm not the only one with brain damage.) Admit it, dude, you were one pilot from going on "I love The '70s" and in your ego you think you look like Joel McHale and Annie and Britta should want to make out with you.(Joel is also funnier than you, as is Louis CK's dental floss.)