Legit (FX, 10:30 p.m.) — What? I don’t know about you, but I can only handle Andy Dick, who makes a self-effacing guest appearance in tonight’s Legit, in 22-minute chunks, and even then that’s pushing it.
Community (NBC, 8 p.m.) — “The study group starts its European history class with professor Noel Cornwallis,” as played by Malcolm McDowell in an episode entitled “Alternative History of the German Invasion.” I approve of Community‘s tactic of winning us back with frightening Nazis (as opposed to).
1600 Penn (NBC, 9:30) — No new Parks and Recreation or The Office, just 1600 Penn. Is anyone else weirded out by how attractive Jenna Elfman is? Thus ends my analysis of 1600 Penn.
Archer (FX, 10 p.m.) — Watch Anthony Bourdain on Archer with some Eggs Woodhouse, won’t you?
The Ben Show/Nathan For You (Comedy Central, 10 p.m.) — Two Comedy Central series premiere tonight. The first, The Ben Show, has Ben Hoffman (who played FBI Guy #1 on Arrested Development!) mixing sketches with man-on-the-street interviews, while the second, Nathan for You, is about Nathan Fielder helping local businesses out with their marketing. He’s the guy behind the “pig rescues goat” video that went viral, so if his show fails, Comedy Central can just air that clip on a loop.
LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Steve Carell on Leno; Jim Parsons and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Kimmel; David Duchovny on Ferguson; Tina Fey, Bill Nighy, and Bob Mould on Fallon; Eugene Mirman on Conan; Rachel Maddow on Stewart; and Jon Favreau on Colbert.
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I think I’ll just watch community then try Robot Combat League, which is on my DVR. Cuz robots fighting.
Important Community news for tonight. Gillian Jacobs tweeted a pic of her in a Bodice (the thing women wear at Oktoberfest featuring mega cleavage) that will be in tonight’s episode.
Dear internet: If gifs are not made there will be battle. If Alison Brie does not also wear one, there will be war. You heard me.
Last week we got bra and panties, this week we got her in a bodice? You gotta give Gillian credit for trying to keep our interest in a show that has had some early season speed bumps.
Minor correction: The correct term for her apparel is “Dirndl.” I worked at a five-star German cuisine restaurant for a year and all the female servers wore them. They are fantastic.
The male servers? We wore uniforms that looked almost identical to the uniforms that Eric and Kelso wore when they were waiters for Jim Gaffigan’s character on That 70s Show. Those? Not so fantastic.
Yeah Archer is great and all but it’s just something after Justified to get me through the weekend. Though this weekend I’m guessing nothing I do will top next week’s Justified. Looks bad ass.
I’m sorry, is Matlock listed for 9pm – 11pm on anyone elses NBC Directv guide? What in the hell is going on? lol
Is 22 minutes the same as 0 minutes? Is so, that’s how much Andy Dick I can handle, too.
NewsRadio notwithstanding, of course.
He wasn’t Andy Dick in Newsradio though.
He was Matthew. And once Smatthew.
Andy Dick is Stinkbutt but Matthew is bitchcakes.
Any show that makes Andy Dick tolerable and Joe Rogan seem not crazy transcends reality. And you can call me Smimmy.
I have high hopes for tonight’s Community episode. Could we possibly see the return of black Hitler?
I believe this episode of Community was the best of the season. Seems like the formula for success is to keep the plot within the walls of Greendale and to not go for overly gimmicky pop culture junk (Hunger Deans).
the Hunger Deans was so amazingly half-assed, they should have just focused exclusively on Abed’s rejection of it being their final year. There wasn’t anything Hunger Games specific that couldn’t have been just the Dean saying hey here’s a series of obstacles to complete to get into this course. If they weren’t going full “paintball” with the Hunger Games they shouldn’t have done it at all.
That said, yes this was the most complete episode of the season thus far, unfortunately it still wasn’t anywhere near as funny or quick as it used to be. Otherwise it was pretty enjoyable for what it’s going to be post-Harmon.
I’m in full agreement. And I’m glad that my opinion wasn’t fully off mark. To be honest, I thought the first half of the episode, up until the point where the chairs in the shoddy study room replacement collapsed, was great. Then they defeated the evil Germans… and then they had another 10 minutes left. It seems like they combined 2 episodes into one. Couldn’t “The Study Group 7 are the Bad Guys” be an episode unto itself?
Another thing I thought, they played a rerun of Parks (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and a rerun of The Office (there’s something slightly wrong with that). Why couldn’t they have aired oh, I dunno, a second new episode of Community in one of those time slots. Maybe move Parks up to 8:00 and then air back to back Community? NBC doesn’t know their ass from their elbow, methinks.
(I sound like a television hipster, but whatevskies)
I liked it quite a bit. Although whoever wrote Troy’s Burn Notice joke needs to be punched in the face.
You guys really thought that it was good? I thought it was so terrible that I turned it off fifteen minutes in. Literally turned it off and erased it from the DVR.
Really liked Community. “Back to the Study Table” is what I have been crying about for a while. My only beef is that the Evil Kraut stuff seriously lacked some Nick Kroll.
As off as the first three episodes felt in their execution, I feel like this one had the feel of a Harmon-era episode (aside from a flat/stupid Troy line or two). But where I liked the overall story ideas of the first three, I felt the plot of this one was lacking. Changnesia? And yeah, why bring back the Germans without Kroll?
It was okay but the best moment for me, I don’t know why, was hearing Daybreak.
FX needs to give Bastard Chef a permanent home.
Boom: Bumper.
Someone needs to be Bastard Chef’s daddy.
Boom: Bumper.
I could only handle 22 minutes of Andy Dick if he were getting his head bashed into a bar by Jon Lovitz.
the ben show wasnt very good. the nathan one was pretty funny.
I can handle Andy Dick in chunks, but I’d prefer he were ground into a fine paste.