Apathy

Quoting the above from the Unpopular TV Opinions thread because I agree the butt-monkey trope can work for the reasons stated here, AND if there's more than one butt-monkey. Dee from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia checks off all those boxes: she's just as bad as the rest of the gang, the latter even acknowledge that bullying her isn't fun if she doesn't fight back in "The Gang Broke Dee," and sometimes Charlie, Mac or even Dennis will take over that role for an episode assuming it's not one of their many victims like Rickety Cricket.

I know I'm late for this but ditto on the guy (in most cases) who carries a torch for his ex for years. Lots of people's first loves aren't their last, and there's a reason why it didn't work out the first time around. Get a life. I'm also not a fan of the Third Act Break-Up/Friendship Failure trope, especially if there's not much leading up to that point at all or if it's over something stupid [insert third act misunderstanding here]. "The liar revealed" could also be related to this, which drives me crazy when it plays out exactly like you'd expect. That kinda ruined Klaus for me.

I know, ItCouldBeWorse reminded me. So it's probably like baldryanr said: Lorne might want another cast member to get comfortable playing Biden just in case they need him and Trump in the same sketch.

Yeah, I thought the same thing. I don't think JAJ was in any of the other sketches either, except for the Lake Beach one. Maybe he was out sick?

I can think of two off the top of my head: black-ish and Grounded for Life, where the husbands were supposed to get one but chickened out and just said they did, though neither of those resulted in the wives getting pregnant as far as I'm aware (the latter even ended with Claudia changing her mind about Sean getting the procedure at all) and of course it was written off as much less skeevy than it actually is...because isn't lying about/messing with birth control funny?!? More like rape by deception, actually. And yes, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that all these episodes were written by men, just one of many reasons there should always be women in the writer's room. I mean if a show HAS to write in an actress's real life pregnancy for the character even after the man was supposed to have been snipped, why not just say the vasectomy didn't take (which is rare, but has really happened) like with Jordan and Dr. Cox from Scrubs, much to their displeasure.

You could also deal with a real life pregnancy by making the character a surrogate, like Joy from My Name is Earl or Dee from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I think Dee in particular having her own kid might have derailed the show, because as Frank Reynolds said "We've got a good thing going. Why blow it with a baby?"

Yep, I've always heard and said tarot like it rhymes with carrot...or it could be the Mandela Effect at play, now I have to reevaluate everything lol.

That was just Vegemite, right? I'm not sure what else "Australian yeast spread" could possibly be. That would also explain why they kept calling Oreos "sandwich cookies," because who on Earth doesn't know what an Oreo is?? And why was everyone pronouncing tarot like ta-row? I've always heard that word pronounced just like it's spelled. I do like how genuinely creepy some of those clown cakes were.

Replace the name Melanie with Allie and that's exactly how I feel about Lon from The Notebook (except for the part about being surprised, I didn't need to read the book to know where that was going). Sure, Noah and Allie have great chemistry (and old!Noah and Allie are cute) but they're also, to quote the Honest Trailers guy, "a couple so indecisive, you wonder why they even bother trying." And I think that's putting it lightly.

It was the monkey from "The Gang Replaces Dee with a Monkey" who apparently died almost immediately after robbing and assaulting the gang minus Dee if he still had the money in his paw. And ditto for whatever they did to Kaitlin Olson's face in this episode, that was really good. Now I do actually want to see Paddy's Pub featured on Bar Rescue.

The recap page on TV Tropes said the same thing, but I watched that episode again just to make sure because it's been a while, and there were the twin girls at Charlie's intervention! He even says in the next scene that one of them screamed "Charlie touched my vagina!" so I guess they were always awful, it's a wonder he doesn't talk about them. Hopefully the Kelly sisters return in another fifteen years.😆 I also loved the reveal of that whole other room in Charlie's apartment.

Although I liked Elvis way more than I thought I would, I might've loved it if they got someone else to play his manager Col. Parker...and I never thought I'd say that about Tom Hanks!

Which raises another question...have Grandon or HBO Max execs even considered just making this season shorter to save money?? It's not like they haven't done it before--Young Justice: Invasion is only 20 episodes (which was probably to that season's detriment, but anyway) I think 4 episodes would have been plenty for Zatanna's arc without things getting repetitive, and the Mars arc definitely should have been condensed to 3 episodes, like Primal Slayer said. All you would really have to do was cut out the scenes of everyone talking about/preparing for a wedding ceremony that didn't even happen and at least half your audience doesn't care about, including the Supermartian clip show...even if that storyline's ending wasn't already semi-spoiled for me, that scene would've tipped me off anyway, I mean really?? I wouldn't be surprised if Greg and Brandon wanted all 26 episodes, killing their darlings has always been a problem for them, but if it's what HBO Max ordered then they should've given them more of a budget to work with, obviously. You don't have to be any kind of expert on fandom to know we'd rather have a great shorter season than a long mediocre one. Not that it's all been like that--I like Artemis's arc the best so far. PLEASE let Kaldur's be next, TPTB. I'm begging you.

I'll be honest, I completely forgot Kanye West ran for president last year until the end of 2020: A Year in Review (it seems like such a long time ago lol) which made it that much funnier to me. Frank's segment was my favorite. Sunny's back!

You can blame the showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, aka Almiles for that. She was their creator's pet literally from the beginning.