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Synopsis. Glenn (Mark McKinney) drives Amy (America Ferrera) crazy with a new, over the top training system. Cheyenne (Nichole Bloom) and Mateo (Nico Santos) brainstorm a new business, while Dina (Lauren Ash) recruits Jonah (Ben Feldman) to help her when she starts second-guessing her own future. Well if they are going to make us wait nearly 3 months for the next episode, this was a strong ensemble episode to leave us on.

There's one next week. Then 7 March! Sob.

Aw. Sandra missed Jamy coming out.

Exactly. Same with Dina: surrogates have to have given birth before, for all sorts of logical reasons. Nit-picking is not the point. The tightrope of shining a light on terrible core truths while keeping the laughter coming over 22 minutes - honestly I can't think of any comedy past or present that does it better.

People so often compare Superstore to The Office but I think the closest parallel is Frasier in the way it balances so perfectly the funniest comedy with razor-sharp relatable insights into humanity and society. Superstore swaps farce for absurdity, but the skill has become equal.

He forced her to come to work 3 hours after she left hospital when at the absolute minimum he should have given a sick day, and the sky is the limit for the maximum. Then left her on her feet all day, then got sulky because it was all about making him feel better about himself. He's been shown up as a total monster.

That's so long. But I guess it's like 2 short seasons without gaps or repeats, plus it gives the cast a decent break. So could be worse.

I can come up with a couple of ideas straight away: 1. Amy had some of maternity leave for Emma working in the same company, so shocked to find work benefits worse than 15 years ago 2. Amy is a supervisor not associate and might have had better benefits. But the real villain here is a country less civilized than 185 U.N. countries out all 193 by not making it the law. Perhaps next time lead with that.

Before Adam arrived, Amy did tell Jonah everything she felt and all her reasons in a few small words in the middle of a contraction: it wasn't just sex, she had feelings and stuff but it wasn't fair to put pressure on him with the baby and everything. And Adam is the father, so that same sense of fairness to him and her baby is to let them bond without her dumb ex somehow doing a Bo and thinking having sex with Jonah while pregnant could somehow make him not the dad. She didn't send Jonah away, but couldn't ask him to stay. But she loved that he was there for her throughout, and how different that was from her ex. They have a journey ahead of them, and as a viewer I've become invested in that.

Health insurance seems super complicated. Thank you for these insights, they help a lot.

I love Cheyenne the underestimated genius. Here comes the lava *snortlaugh*

No-one does Halloween better than Superstore. So good.

Pictures from Delivery Day are out https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/10/superstore-episode-405-delivery-day.html and together with pics from the Meet the Parents episode, indicates to me that Jonah is going to pretend he's married Amy to give her maternity access to his family's health insurance.

Wildly inappropriate and offensive are Dina's defining characteristics. She generates the laughter of shock.

I'm finding it bizarre that a minority of Bo-like fans are so upset that Amy's baby does not have Jonah's DNA, but very reassuring that Jonah is positioned by the show to be the real dad by his proximity to Amy during her pregnancy and birth (future but certain), which has been scientifically proven to trigger all the bonding and parental hormones that make a man into a father. Doubly reinforced by the oxytocin and dopamine rush of being in love as well. In a real world of blended families, this feels satisfying and emotionally true. But I'm a little disturbed that I am obsessed enough with Superstore to have given this so much thought.

I found the same things hilarious but also loved the things you didn't. Dina red-lining and Cheyenne as both Fran and the unappreciated logistics genius were fab but "fancy boy" Jonah and Amy's non verbal communication in the warehouse was a giggle with an edge and I like Sandra's plotlines being surreal. Also I loved Kelly calling out Glenn's grotesque entitlement and the flipside of the Superstore cliquey family (even though I love them, they're the worst). She had a strong exit.

Cheyenne is a logistics genius with rainbow hair. They should make her head of HR.

A stripper in a diaper can never be unseen. Eek.

I've read the episode titles and synopses and it seems that they are doing all the kooky tradition episodes before Halloween -the crazy Mateo creativity, the games in the store, the A&J competitive episode. Which makes me think we have a dark twist/ major switch up coming from November sweeps. Maybe HQ give Jonah a new job...

My hope that they would be together was fed by the the fact that Jonah was saying nothing during the interrogation teasers, just backing up everything Amy said with gestures.This is motormouth Jonah we're talking about here :-D *happy dance*

Ah, but Dina's bump is hilarious. She looks like Mr Greedy http://mrmen.wikia.com/wiki/File:Mr._Men_Back_Book_Cover_D.PNG

You guys. First look's been released : Giddy? Moi?

Guest star news, with tiny spoiler https://deadline.com/2018/09/eden-sher-despite-upcoming-pilot-looks-for-work-at-nbcs-superstore-1202459886/ Also the season 3 deleted scenes have been released on YouTube.

Roaster I like your hopes, particularly like the Garrett storyline. On your predictions, it's interesting that we both think Jonah will have opportunity to move, in different ways. But I think the bang room broadcast is going to have callbacks, and one will be that Adam will use it as an Out from fatherhood. What would you like for Sandra?

I genuinely love the fact that all of the characters have flaws, and being well-rounded is clearly more important to the writers than perfect likeability. Jonah has consistently been portrayed as guy who will hurt others if it means he gets to avoid giving bad news, and he totally mistreated Kelly because of it. He is also caring and well-meaning and would jump through fire for Amy. Amy has always been one of the popular people and is scared of that changing but dismissive of those who aren't, like Sandra. She is also assertive, self-sacrificing and in knots about the failure of her marriage and ambition and so understandably self-sabotages early sprouts of romance with Jonah because of guilt. Which makes the eventual unbottling so intense. All the secondary (and an impressive proportion of fringe) characters also have multiple dimensions and the writers keep the heart without much sentimentality by the superb mix of of verbal and visual comedy. But what bonds me most to this show is the layered characters and the grounding in social reality. I look forward to seeing where they take us for another 3 years.