A lot of comedians have talked about the kind of bits they showed their friends and obsessed over while growing up. For me, I think 2012 is emblematic of that. There are so many episodes from this year that I showed over and over again to my friends. They must have been so sick of me. But seriously, those Thursday night lineups on NBC were so formative. I'll appreciate and miss them forever. Community & Parks were SO neck and neck here. My god.
The honorable ones: Final seasons begin for The Office & Breaking Bad, CBB, Phantom Gourmet, Halloween Wars, the East/West Bowl, Girls & Veep begin, Today, the Chuck finale, Colbert, and A Young Doctor's Notebook.