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Huh. Don't the SAG Awards have a category for "Best Ensemble Cast"? I seem to remember the casts of Seinfeld, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond winning that when I gave a damn about awards shows. If that category still exists, and Community wasn't nominated for it, then God wants me to kick puppies, punch kitties, and poke Betty White in the eye.

(Sorry. The Best Picture and Best Series awards are for casts. I've updated the post to better reflect that. -- DR

How long can The Office coast on the good-will created by long gone episodes? The only show that MIGHT have a better ensemble cast than Community is Modern Family.
(Since I'm nerdboying right now, I'll toss in Better Off Ted as another example of a ridiculously good cast that needed so much more love.)

That is rather surprising that Community didn't get a nom.

I think Inception should have been up for best ensemble. That was kind of a strange cast that worked damn well together. Shutter Island as well. Hmmm...both DiCaprio movies.

Still pretty ho-hum and predictable/boring. At least John Hawkes gets some love. But Community and Parks & Rec getting skipped in favor of the oldies is ridiculous. Also skipping over Olyphant and Walton Goggins on Justified, and MLP for Weeds is a head scratcher. In the end, I will continue to not care much about award shows.

And I second, what the hell is Hot in Cleveland?

True Grit ughhh! I can’t get that annoying voice out of my head. I don’t know which voice is more grating, Bale’s “Dark Knight” or this fucking Rooster Cogburn guy.

I watch a lot of teevee, but I can honestly say I haven’t watched a full episode of any of the shows nominated by SAG.

I’m not a big fan of SAG, it goes back to the way that they treated Tyler Perry.

I haven’t gotten to the theater that much this year, but I’ll definitely weigh in on the amazing television that’s on right now.

Best Performance by an Ensemble, TV Drama
Mad Men. Bonus points for pulling people from Whedon’s cancelled shows (and not killing them).

Best Actor, TV Drama
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad. In his own way, Walt is more terrifying than Dexter, more loveable/despicable than Don Draper, smarter than Dr. House, and more pathetic than Steve Buscemi. This is largely due to amazing writing and my own obsession with the show, but Cranston is the only person I could see pulling it all off.

Best Actress, TV Drama
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to follow the dramas as closely as I’d like (even Mad Men *slaps wrist*). But if Kyra can help me cheat in 5 Degrees of Kevin Bacon, she can help me cheat in the SAG awards. Don’t question my logic. It is not your human logic. Mine’s much more advanced.

Best Performance by an Ensemble, TV Comedy
Modern Family. 30 Rock is a close second, and I don’t mind if they win, but they’re not quite as amazing as they’ve been in the past, and MF really pulls it together. Not only are they hilarious, but they really feel like a family. However, we all know it’s Community. Seriously, SAG? Seriously?

Best Actress, TV Comedy
Betty White. We really do love her. It was hordes of our people who brought her back to TV, and we know in our hearts that we won’t have her for much longer. Make her comfortable, make her happy. Hollywood is her Hospice, and awards are her palliative care.

Best Actor, TV Comedy
Ty Burrell. It’s not that I don’t love the rest of them, but Mr. Burrell is the only one who comes close to actually acting (did you know that Chris Colfer is gay in real life?!). He came into our lives as the poor man’s Bruce Campbell in Dawn of the Dead, but he has since risen to greatness in our living rooms, restoring the balance, returning Bruce Campbell to his post as the poor man’s Bruce Campbell.

Dear ShagEaredVillain,

Your comments on Ty Burrel are wonderfully cromulent and you've embiggened my soul today. Can we bee friends?

Gah. It's like Community doesn't even exist!

Seconded to "it's like Community doesn't even exist."

Seriously, it's just baffling. Every few years, an awesome new show or two comes along that, regardless of personal tastes, definitely has a few things going for it that you'd expect award seasons to recognize, and they just gets utterly and completely and totally ignored. I do not understand this.