NBC Thursday Comedies - Week 7

The Office is once again underwhelming, Park and Rec another gem, and Community has a good one this week.

Community - "Studies In Modern Movement"
Just an all around good episode, not much more to say about it than that.  Nothing really stands out besides Annie standing up for herself to Troy and Abed about the Dreamatorium.  Chevy gets to be weird in his own little paint plot, Shirley and Britta argue about religion vs morality, and the Dean blackmails Jeff into a day at the  mall.  Jeff's elaborate set up to fake being in the hospital was good, as was Troy and Abed's shadow puppet play for Annie.  The best part was the karaoke-hitchhiker-high Pierce on piano mash up song.

Parks and Recreation - "The Treaty"
Like I said above the jump, another gem of an episode.  We get more Ben and Leslie figuring out how to be around each other now that they are not together.  It would have been a good story to play out in City Hall, but setting it at a high school model UN with those two as warring nations just made it all the better and very Parks and Rec.  Andy gathering up all the other countries lions and April being the delegation from the moon were nice wacky touches, but they were also able to help resolve the problems they saw that Leslie and Ben were having.  Tom coming back to the parks department was inevitable, but it was handled well.  Ron is not someone to beg, but they explained how Tom's work ethic fit perfectly into how Ron sees government.  The parade of losers interviewing let the writers come up with some good characters, I especially like the twitchy teen.  In the C-plot (or B2, I suppose), Chris gets a braintrust together of Jerry, Donna, and Ann to figure out why things have cooled with Jerry's daughter.  That story had a nice cap to it with Ann explaining that Chris' perfectness can ironically be a flaw.

The Office - "Pam's Replacement"
Oh, Office, you are so mediocre this year.  I usually dig Andy, Darryl, and Kevin doing anything with their band, but Robert overtaking it went absolutely no where, and wasn't funny.  The Dwight-Pam pairing, on the other hand, definitely funny.  The two of them playing off each other was fun and I really enjoyed Dwight's oblivious honesty.  It played well after everyone bending over backwards to be nice to Pam.  It then went too over the top with Dwight trying to check if Jim had an erection, repeatedly.  Then it came back to Earth when Pam became concerned with Jim's high blood pressure and all thoughts of whether he finds the temp attractive or not were forgotten.  The best part was Creed's astonishment at the long triangle that suddenly appeared in front of him.