I think about a world to come where the books were found by the golden ones, written in pain, written in awe by a puzzled man who questioned, "What are we here for?" All the strangers came today and it looks as though they're here to stay.

-David Bowie "Oh! You Pretty Things"

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Thursday TV Tournament: Match-up 30 Results

Today's match-up is between seventh seed, The Office Season Seven, Episode Nineteen, "Garage Sale," which aired March 24, 2011, and twenty-second seed, 30 Rock Season Five, Episode Seventeen, "Queen of Jordan," which aired March 17, 2011. Not only that, but we now know which two teams will make it to the finals of the Thursday TV Tournament.


For this one, I think I'm going to have to side with Mr. Adam Friedli once more.

The Office had its fair share of humor, but its backbone is clearly emotional drive this time around. So we have humor against emotion. For me, I will usually side with emotion over humor, but it's often a tough call.

Michael's proposal might be one of the most beautiful and meaningful things I have seen on network television in quite a long time. I'm pulling for The Office...

Here's the question, however: Can the emotion of one of the most important episodes of The Office defeat the comedy of one of the funniest episodes of Community? This is what lies ahead for us.

Tune in next time for twenty-eighth seed, Community Season Two, Episode Twenty-One, "Paradigms of Human Memory," which aired April 21, 2011, and seventh seed, The Office Season Seven, Episode Nineteen, "Garage Sale," which aired March 24, 2011. In the super-serial-end, there can be only one. And it's the super-serial end.

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