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TV Club : Modern Family “Games People Play”

Three Dunphy children in an RV? Feels like 30 to Phil.

May 15, 2013 | 8:30pm -
TV Roundtable When My Boys tested its prickly chemistry by inviting some new faces to the poker table

One of the ultimate hangout shows considers a few characters who just might be a “bad hang.”

May 15, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Something New”

Yep, there's the mother. But don't start packing up. This is Ted's story, not hers, and he's not done yet.

May 13, 2013 | 8:25pm -
TV Club : Modern Family “My Hero”

Modern Family gathers the whole ensemble at a roller rink, which is a recipe for sitcom goodness if we've ever heard one.

May 8, 2013 | 9:45pm -
TV Roundtable A classic Simpsons episode explores the universality of being Frank Grimes

The beleaguered everyman meets his doom: the incompetent whirlwind that is Homer Simpson.

May 8, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Something Old”

Ted decides what to toss and what to keep, while delivering rather specific speeches about the meaning of same.

May 6, 2013 | 8:55pm -
TV Club : Modern Family “Career Day”

Why do schools in sitcoms have so many Career Days? So Phil Dunphy can do video bits with his past self, of course.

May 1, 2013 | 9:40pm -
TV Roundtable TV Roundtable begins anew—if that’s what you’re into

Usher in a new TV Roundtable theme with Flight Of The Conchords—if that’s what you’re into.

May 1, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Bro Mitzvah”

Barney's bachelor party might have been predictable. Luckily, there's a clown.

April 29, 2013 | 8:30pm -
TV Roundtable Futurama’s opera was a poignant final bow—until it wasn’t

Fry’s deal with Robot Devil gives him musical prowess that comes with a price. How ironic! (That’s not what ironic means.)

April 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Scrubs took its time to make a musical episode, but made it count

The medical comedy was bound to make an all-singing, all-dancing half-hour—all it needed was an assist from the Avenue Q guys.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Romeward Bound”

It's like one of those plays where stagehands move the stage dressing around without bothering to close the curtain.

April 15, 2013 | 8:35pm -
TV Club : Modern Family “Flip Flop”

Phil flips the house, and Gloria plays charades! No, not really, but they're hilarious while they're failing.

April 10, 2013 | 9:50pm -
TV Roundtable Taxi asks, “How much of a sitcom needs to be comedic?”

Before Girls and Louie, a different Louie pushed the boundaries of TV comedy.

April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -
TV Club : Modern Family “The Future Dunphys”

Phil and Claire see the future, and thanks to Luke it is a paradise of self-flipping pancakes.

April 3, 2013 | 9:45pm -
TV Roundtable It’s okay to laugh at It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s musical trainwreck

Enter the Dayman.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Modern Family “The Wow Factor”

Another episode from writer Ben Karlin: familiar in structure and premise, but rich in hilarious throwaway moments.

March 27, 2013 | 10:00pm -
TV Roundtable The 7th Heaven musical is one of the worst episodes of TV ever made

Watch as our panel attempts to survive its stultifying stupidity with sanity intact!

March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Time Travelers”

Sorry, Present-Day Ted. Twenty-Years-From-Now Barney can't help you decide how to spend a lonely April evening.

March 25, 2013 | 8:25pm -
TV Roundtable After Ally McBeal captured the zeitgeist, Robert Downey Jr. found the show’s heart

“That’s what Christmas is all about, Ally McBeal.”

March 20, 2013 | 12:00pm -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “The Fortress”

Barney gives up The Fortress of Solitude, but first: some fun with his Jor-El Floating Head Generator.

March 18, 2013 | 8:45pm -
TV Roundtable Daria’s musical episode comes off like a dare—but does it hit the right notes?

An all-singing, all-dancing episode of this down-to-earth cartoon makes no sense, but it’s still an endearing experiment.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Frasier forgets the words in one of the funniest sitcom episodes of the 1990s

The glare of the spotlight makes the show’s characters sweat, copiously and hilariously.

March 6, 2013 | 10:00am -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Weekend At Barney's”

The Playbook is dead. Long live The Playbook!

February 25, 2013 | 8:40pm -
TV Club : Switched At Birth “Drive In The Knife”

Toby goes hot-tubbing with the enemy and Regina regresses back to Step 0 in an especially sudsy episode.

February 18, 2013 | 9:05pm -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Bad Crazy”

We're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy. Or so this episode would have us believe.

February 11, 2013 | 8:35pm -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “P.S. I Love You”

No Canadian will ever forget what Tim Horton's they were in when Robin Sparkles became Robin Daggers.

February 4, 2013 | 8:40pm -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Ring Up”

How does a sex addict like Barney handle monogamy? HIMYM has no better answer than “withdrawal.”

January 21, 2013 | 8:40pm -
TV Club : How I Met Your Mother “Band Or DJ?”

HIMYM's writers find a way to connect infant constipation with Ted's romantic regrets. Yes, really.

January 14, 2013 | 8:30pm -
Best of Beyond the top 30: Our favorite episodes of shows that didn’t make the cut, part one

Everything from series finales of long-running cult hits to aging sitcoms to news coverage makes our supplemental list.

December 27, 2012 | 12:00am -

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