Ha, very good. Funny and basically sweet-natured, though with lots of sharp edges, and the strongest and most effectively used meta streak of any tv show that I've come across, not least in the way that one of its key strands is the foregrounding of the conflict between the main characters and their group dynamic as the main theme of the show itself - and clearly genuinely in love with culture, meaning pop culture. Plus, its knowingness plays out in a good understanding and use of appealing narrative structures - war analogues (ie conflict) like paintball, the pillow and blanket fort episodes etc, and also scenarios where characters are picked off one by one. Also, I don't know what the personal psychology is, but I always seem to like smarmy lawyer types (at least when they're on tv or in movies); indeed, it does a great job making all of its characters likeable unlikeable. Also also, Abed's a great character and the actor playing him has some chops (as when he plays Abed playing Don Draper, convincingly in all its layers).
