The Dean just moved in next door to Jeff. And you guys are worried that this doesn't look like a good season? Fiddle dee-dee!

Sorry, I meant to say "Fiddle-dee-dean"!

First episode of new season wasn't bad, and I say it was better than a lot of episodes that came before*. But neither is it up there with, say, the episode where Pierce's mom died.

I wouldn't mind if Fred Willard took over Pierce's role for good. They could just run with that with no explanation.


*: If you're good, I'll tell you which episodes I didn't like. And if you're VERY good, I won't.

My favorite episode is the debate episode from Season 1. I took a playwriting course once, and the professor would always talk about Hamlet, and how all the subplots and themes were resolved by a swordfight, in other words, with action.

Well, this sitcom episode resolved several subplots and themes with something far more imaginative than a swordfight, a guy flying out of wheelchair. The plotting was amazing. Some of the later episodes were more imaginative. The paintball episodes were funnier, but that episode was a miracle of plotting. It was the perfect sitcom plot.

I still haven't seen the first episode of season 4, I can't get it to load on my Hulu, but I think its crazy to count Community out on the basis of one episode.

It wasn't great by Community standards, but it was still better than most comedy on television. I think.

Oh I get it now. People are saying the show isn't as good without Chevy Chase. Gee, where have I heard THAT before?

JHM, I had to go to nbc.com to see the episode -- bear in mind that Hulu is an aggregator for a lot of other sites, sometimes it works better to bypass Hulu.

Thanks. Now that I've got a dual core processor and 4 GIGS of ram, I may be able to handle all the resource-sucking bullshit that's on NBC.com. I swear that the networks all design their sites with an eye to convince us that the internet is a bad idea, after all.

Saw the first episode. I thought it was just fyne. This is a show that breaks the mold every week, so sometimes, it's just uncomfortable. Those are often the episodes that work better for me when I was them six months down the road.

And the Tango was a classic!

I didn't say anything about Chevy Chase... who is still on the show. I don't think it's the same without Dan Harmon. As this is one of my favorite shows in many years, I'm really pulling for it, but that wasn't an amazing start. Very good, but not amazing.

You didn't, and now that I've seen the episode I understand what was meant by "Fred Willard playing Pierce". I was making a humorous reference to the fact that people have been complaining that SNL isn't as good as it used to be since Chevy left in 1977.

Yeah. I won't bother to explain here. It's pretty subtle.

Take my stars you magnificent bastard!

He also won an Oscar for that script!

Nowhere is a southern drawl more delightfully evocative than when it is employed by a man in drag.