With The Office signing off this past Thursday and the recent departure of 30 Rock, NBC finds itself in one hell of a hole. NBC at one point was the class of the television field, now they find themselves reaching like nobody has reached before.

As The Office rolled its final credits Thursday I am sure more than a few tears had been shed. I won’t lie I welled up a couple of times. Some will really understand my feelings on The Office and some will think I am insane. It is the best show in my opinion ever. Granted I am only in my mid twenties but there is nothing as good as it. It was so well written with such a good cast of characters that I have seen every episodes probably a dozen times. It is something on in the background all the time. I can look up at any moment and watch Michael Scott try and pull off a Chris Rock bit or whatever he was up to.

Like really any comedy The Office’s audience shrunk and people started to dislike where it was going. Yes after Steve Carell left it became something else. But even before that when the jokes weren’t good they sucked you in with the emotional aspect. They created a full cast characters that we fell in love with and actually cared about what happened to them every week. Anyone that didn’t like the finale perhaps never watched all the episodes and in order because they obviously didn’t feel the same connection I did. I am going to miss new episodes of this show more than any other ever but I am mostly grateful for it and the emotion for the finale felt more like a proud send off. Job well done fellas.

Without the power of The Office that leaves NBC with Parks and Rec as their only really good comedy, unless you count Community. I can’t get into it but it does have an audience apparently. Anyway that makes two shows you can basically count on NBC. But Parks and Rec is going into Season 6 who knows how long they will be around. If they shut it down then NBC is basically out of the comedy business. What about new shows you ask? We will get there but first here is a list of some of the greats that NBC has produced over the years. I just want to remind y’all how many good shows they have made before we get into the possible Emmy award winning batch of new shows.

The Office

Scrubs

Seinfeld

Cheers

30 Rock

Will and Grace

Frasier

Family Ties

Friends

The Cosby Show

Golden Girls

Taxi

Happy Days

Andy Griffith Show

Diff’rent Strokes

Everybody Loves Raymond

My Name Is Earl

Good Times

The Jeffersons

I Dream of Jeannie

Fresh Prince

3rd Rock From The Sun

NewsRadio

Sanford and Son

New This Summer

Save Me 8pm 5/23

You have probably seen the commercials for it but if you have not don’t bother just read the next sentence. The premise of this show is that Anne Heche chokes on a sandwich then gets revived and suddenly claims she can talk to god. That is not a joke. That is a real TV show. Something tells me it won’t be making it past it’s guaranteed four weeks 5 episodes.

Few things about Anne Heche before we move on. Somehow she went from being ugly as hell her first forty years on the planet to being rather attractive the last four or so.