No Office for a bit, but that leaves room for two Parks and Recs.
Community - "Conventions in Space and Time"
The much anticipated "study group goes to an Inspector Spacetime convention" episode. Too much anticipated, probably, but still better than the season premiere. The idea of a rift forming between Troy and Abed now that Troy and Britta are together sounds good on paper, but the execution was not there. Toby never seemed like a credible threat, he was too cartoonish as a villain. Maybe that was an intentional nod to the cartoonish villains of Doctor Who, but it just didn't work. I enjoyed the bedroom escape to start the episode and the deadpan way Abed revealed he already knew, but I then stopped to think about why Troy would be sleeping in Annie's room in the first place. I'm not normally one to gripe about "plot holes", but that could have been cleared up with just a line somewhere. The whole Annie story was a little strange. Just off in some way. It did give us the spectacular line about hotels being built on adultery. I'm never one to complain about Tricia Helfer from Battlestar Galactica being on my TV, and she did a fine job as a hot Inspector Spacetime fan. Pierce completely ruining the american version of Inspector Spacetime was the most consistent of the stories and my favorite, it's not often that Pierce is the best part of an episode. This is three weeks into the season and I don't think there's been a "sitting around the study room table" scene, that's kind of weird.
Parks and Recreation
"Leslie and Ben"
Oh the cruelness of scheduling. This should have been back to back with "Emergency Response", but instead we get the second part of a two-parter and then a completely unrelated episode. Oh well, two episodes of this show are always better than one. Wedding wise, there's no way they could have topped Andy and April's surprise wedding, but this came damn close. Practically a perfect episode. If I was to give it one criticism it would be Jamm going off the deep end and setting off the stink bombs at the first wedding attempt. However, that got them to the intimate version in the parks department, which was amazing, so it was worth it. When Ron lifted his arm to walk Leslie into the second surprise wedding, I started to tear up. That's twice this year they've gotten me, which is a testament to how much I enjoy these characters and revel in their happiness.
"Correspondent's Dinner"
Just a regular old episode of Parks and Rec, but put next to the amazingness of "Leslie and Ben", it doesn't quite stack up. This second episode was more of a piece mover for the back half of the season (which the producers didn't know they were going to have, "Leslie and Ben" was designed as a season/series finale). Ann has decided she wants Chris' sperm for her baby, Ben has taken the job at the Sweetums charity foundation, and Andy has been set adrift by losing his dream. Meanwhile, Leslie is giving a speech for the Pawnee correspondents dinner, but has all her hilarious lines stolen by the paper that loves to slam her. I loved Donna's plan to catch the them in the act and the reasons she knows how to do this so well. Andy really stole the episode with his moroseness, like when Chris would not get depressed, but super depressed. Finally, even Perd understanding how awkward the sperm donor question was a great moment from a great utility player.
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