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To give their newer sitcoms more appealing, not care about producing another scripted drama or for some third, mysterious reason, NBC has decided to turn Thursday nights into an orgy of comedy. That’s six shows – “Community,” “Perfect Couples,” “The Office,” “Parks and Recreation,” “30 Rock” and “Outsourced.” That’s three hours – three hours of presumably funny programming that should in no way have you to have bloodshot eyes or question your heart for TV after watching all of them in one sitting.

We were peculiar to see exactly how much enjoyment can be base in taking in three straight hours of NBC comedies at once, so we sat down for its first run and let the right times roll, commercials and all. Here’s how it all went down:“Community”00 – The night kicks off with one of those “Office” shorts NBC presumably made to take our interest through the night. And if they all include Mindy Kaling’s Scarlett Johansson impersonation, they will do just that.01 – “Community” time! And Annie has a boyfriend – or a crush – and everyone’s making guesses as to who it is. Do we love him? Is it Starburns? Please, Starburns! 0:05 – The crush reveals himself, it’s Dr. Rich (we don’t know either).08 – Malcolm Jamal Warner! That is all. Or not. because Shirley is fraught with his baby. or Chang’s. 0:09 – The small daughter in the “Just Go With It” trailer who says “‘ello” in a British accent is awesome. We’d let her join study group.12 – “I spell Kettle Corn with a Q-U.” 0:15 – It’s been so long since a Jeff Winger lawyer. lawyer speech. We’re almost swayed, except Chang is best Chang’d in some Chang-tions. 0:21 – Are you excited about “Perfect Couples?” Maybe this promo will fix that. Nope? Then you have 9 minutes of happiness left. 0:24 – We googled “Karistina” and many variations of it. It is not an almond facial rub from Finland. It’s nothing!29 – Troy and Abed in the mooooornin’.“Perfect Couples”30- “Perfect Couples” commences with a collage of ladies taking up too much place in the bed. It’s peculiar because it’s true?0:31 – It’s inconceivable to think of Mary Elizabeth Ellis as anyone but the waitress from “Always Sunny.”0:33- If you like “Perfect Couples,” you’ll probably like “No Strings Attached,” in theaters Friday, Jan. 21. 0:36 – Who’s this poor girl who has to be on this point and not yet be in one of the couples? 0:38 – Ruh-roh, was that a LOL? The waitress’s reaction to game night is fantastic. 0:41- “Who wants to get wasted?” “Alcoholics, Rex.” No, this is not allowed to be funny! Good thing there’s all this unrealistic making out, exaggerated fighting and “Dreamgirls” referencing to get us back down.50 – The 2014 Winter Olympics are in 2014? At least we learned something – or got subliminal messaging from NBC.55 – There is an awfully lot of wine talk going on. Where do they believe they are, “Cougar Town?”0:59 – Meh. “Perfect Couples” wasn’t nearly the buzzkill we’d anticipated, but it’s nothing compared to the raw, unadulterated 1.5 hours of mirth that is most to ensue. “The Office”1:00 – Let’s acknowledge for a minute that we’re an hour into this experiment and NBC is kind of pretending that this whole thing isn’t going to end in “Outsourced.” We yet know it’s coming. 1:05 – “Paula Poundstone live in Poughkeepsie” is both alliterative and absurd. We thought she now existed to occasionally appear on “Wait Wait. Don’t Separate Me.” 1:07 – Still thinking you might wish “The Place” without Steve Carell. Re-watch his celebratory dance to Kelly Clarkson while watching a congratulatory video message from himself and get support to us. The high point of the night so far.1:19 – Michael’s tantrum during the resolutions meeting form of reminds you why maybe “The Place” will be better, post-Carell.1:24 – Andy Bernard. Ice-skating. To Dave Matthews Band.1:28 – Aaaaaand Holly’s single. “Parks and Recreation”1:30 – Confession: We’ve already seen the season premiere of “Parks & Rec.” And we’re watching it again, because – spoiler alert! – it’s awesome. 1:35 – The Swanson Pyramid of Greatness, if you haven’t had time to examine it, is an incredibly valuable resource. Fish meat is much a vegetable. 1:39 – Leslie is describing things she’s finds sexy, simultaneously revealing Ann Perkins to be a renewed asset to the point now that Mark Brendanawicz is out of the picture. 1:43 – Uh oh. They’re really starting to push “Outsourced” on us. 1:45 – If you had any reservations about Rob Lowe on this show, please take your mistake now. 1:53 – We’re starting to truly find the clothing of all this television. “30 Rock” is normally the foreground of NBC Thursday’s for us, but we’re kind of dreading having to keep watching.1:54 – Again with the Rob Lowe thing. 1:57 – “Will the Harvest Festival save the parks department? We consume a solid season to get out.” [spoken in a dramatic voice] This point is alike the sitcom equivalent of “24.” Or perhaps we hardly remember that because of the whole clock thing we get going on. “30 Rock”2:00 – Comedy at 10 p.m. What is this, premium cable? Jack accidentally married Liz, credits! We’re already a bit revived. 2:04 – All those publicity stills of Tina Fey in bizarre white garb isn’t a component of some ethnic ceremony, it’s a men’s tennis shirt and a government-sanctioned net.2:05 – Dr Spaceman tells Tracy he’s dying. They are already writing him out for that whole kidney thing.2:06 – It’s Danny, and they’re joking about how he’s never on the show. Yeah, about that. maybe more of that.2:11 – Does “Dexter” narrate car commercials now? Because the “Mad Men” guys already do a wonderful, non-creepy job.2:13 – NBC’s second highest priority is to “do it 1997 again, through science or magic” – just behind “The Biggest Loser.” Maybe “The Biggest Loser” can have an add an additional hour a week. 2:16 – Is this Sherri Shepherd and Tina Fey’s first real scene together? Their exchange is unfamiliar and amazing. 2:19 – All of the NBC jokes are OK, because Liz is aggressively pro-Bravo.2:22 – Liz is on local news, imitating Jackie O, announcing “The Seaman and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for the Arts and Feelings.” This picture is so fantastically off the rails. Liz confesses her Jackie was actually Drew Barrymore in “Grey Gardens.”2:27 – It’s the second declaration-of-love fake-out of the night!2:29 – We would watch Angie’s Bravo show. We may have already. 2:30 – “30 Rock” went by too quickly. And, because of our fatigue while watching it, we’re passing to get to re-watch it later to fully appreciate it. Not later tonight, though. In like 3 days.“Outsourced”2:31 – Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand racism. 2:35 People in India know who Susan Boyle is. They do have computers there.2:37 – We’re fairly sure “Merriam-Webster” was only referred to as a person.2:40 – Even considering the mediocrity of “Perfect Couples,” this picture is yet so wildly out of home with these other series. It’s like the aggressively unfunny black sheep of the house that’s been pushed all the way to the early end of the 3-hour table. 2:46 – Interpretive dance set to ’80s music used to make us happy. 2:48 – If we knew how many trailers for James Cameron’s “Sanctum” there’d be, we would have counted them from the beginning. 3:00 – “Watching ‘Outsourced’ is one of our sacred customs.” Even the patronizing white lady voice-over for this show’s promos are racist. The verdict: Show-wise, our favorites are still our favorites, and the newbies are still dispensable, if occasionally not that bad. But no two-hour lump of these programs is appropriate in one sitting, let alone a three-hour one. It would need an entire week to tap all six of these of our DVR if we were subject of committing to all of them. Which we’re unquestionably not.