NBC says of “Digital Exploration of Interior Design”:
As the new Greendale Subway shop opens in the cafeteria, Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), Pierce (Chevy Chase) and Britta (Gillian Jacobs) plot to bring about its early demise. Vice Dean Laybourne (guest star John Goodman) makes another attempt to get Troy to join the Air Conditioning Repair Annex, while Abed and Troy find themselves at odds over their competing pillow and blanket forts.
More in the text invisible.
* Jeff learns something about Greendale from Annie.
* Laybourne, it turns out, knows a lot about “Inspector Spacetime.”
* “Community” is now in an excellent position to keep pimping Subway in a DVR-proof way, which should cement its renewal for a fourth season.
* Pierce reveals that Britta is a weapon designed for sex.
* Mirror Abed does not return this week, though Dean Laybourne now sports a sinister goatee.
* This episode contains precisely the right amount of Chang.
Returning tonight:
Punk’d (10pm MTV)
Rules of Engagement (8:30pm CBS)
Premiering tonight:
My Mom Is Obsessed (10pm Health) is a reality show offering an “intimate, heart-warming and sometimes shocking look into the lives of moms and daughters who are anything but ordinary.”
The Pauly D Project (10:30pm MTV) follows the “Jersey Shore” personality into his own series.
* While “Awake” fell hard last week, I’m obliged to point out that “Prime Suspect” once hit a 0.9 and “The Firm” hit a 0.8 before it moved to Saturday (where it hit a 0.4).
* "American Idol" hit a 4.2 last Thursday. That's got to be its lowest score in many years.
Thursdays, Feb. 2-March 22, 2012
(18-49 finals; repeats in grey; prior weeks in parentheses)
--- (---) (5.1) (3.2) (5.3) (5.1) (5.6) (5.5) Big Bang Theory
4.2 (4.6) (4.9) (5.4) (4.5) (5.1) (5.8) (5.5) American Idol
--- (---) (3.4) (1.8) (3.1) (2.8) (3.3) (3.3) Person of Interest
3.3 (2.2) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Touch
--- (---) (2.8) (1.7) (2.6) (2.7) (3.0) (2.9) The Mentalist
--- (2.4) (2.6) (2.5) (2.6) (2.3) (2.5) (2.8) The Office
2.1 (1.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.4) (---) (---) College Basketball
1.7 (2.2) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Community
1.7 (2.7) (2.8) (2.7) (2.9) (2.9) (3.0) (3.2) Jersey Shore
1.6 (2.1) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Missing
1.6 (2.0) (1.4) (1.4) (1.5) (1.5) (1.6) (1.3) 30 Rock
1.5 (1.7) (1.7) (1.6) (1.7) (1.5) (1.7) (1.8) Up All Night
1.3 (1.2) (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) (1.4) (1.3) (1.2) Vampire Diaries
1.2 (1.6) (1.6) (2.0) (---) (---) (---) (---) Awake
1.2 (3.0) (1.4) (1.1) (3.1) (3.2) (4.0) (3.6) Grey’s Anatomy
0.8 (0.7) (0.5) (0.6) (0.8) (0.7) (0.7) (0.6) Archer
0.8 (2.1) (---) (---) (2.1) (2.6) (2.2) (2.3) Private Practice
0.8 (0.7) (0.7) (0.7) (0.7) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) Project Runway
0.8 (2.0) (1.9) (1.8) (1.7) (1.6) (1.9) (---) Swamp People
0.7 (0.6) (0.8) (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.4) (0.6) The First 48
0.7 (0.7) (---) (---) (---) (0.7) (0.8) (0.7) Secret Circle
0.6 (0.6) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) First 48: MP
0.6 (---) (0.9) (0.8) (0.9) (1.1) (1.0) (1.0) Pants Back
0.5 (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.6) (0.7) (0.6) Braxton Values
0.5 (0.6) (0.5) (0.5) (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) Chopped
0.5 (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.3) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) House Hunters
0.5 (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) Impact Wrestling
0.5 (0.4) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Sweet Genius
0.4 (---) (0.5) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) (0.6) Conan
0.4 (0.7) (0.5) (0.7) (0.8) (0.6) (0.4) (0.8) The Daily Show
0.4 (0.4) (0.4) (0.4) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) (---) House Hunters Intl
0.4 (---) (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) (0.4) (0.4) (0.5) World’s Dumbest
0.3 (---) (---) (---) (0.3) (0.5) (0.4) (0.5) Chelsea Lately
0.3 (0.2) (0.4) (0.3) (0.2) (0.3) (0.4) (0.3) O’Reilly Factor
0.3 (---) (0.3) (---) (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) (0.3) Selling L.A.
0.3 (0.3) (0.3) (0.4) (0.4) (---) (0.3) (0.4) Selling New York
0.2 (---) (0.2) (0.2) (---) (---) (0.3) (0.2) Hannity
0.2 (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) (---) Van Susteren
