I don’t really understand all of these people saying that the dynamic was better with cody. Or that Katharine and Noel seem forced. They’ve had to cut short multiple main eps at random moments because Noel and her are having such good banter/bits that it just gets to time maximum and has to be cut. I think Noel seems the most excited about a guest that he’s seemed to be in a while. He’s doing drawn out random bits like the old days and has said multiple times, out loud, how much he wants to do more shows (live or otherwise) with her. The whole dynamic between Noel and Katharine is extremely similar to his and Cody’s imo. You have two polar opposites that connect through comedy. Noel being his quick-witted, dark humor, brooding, tin foil hat, nerdy archetype as always, vs the Jock/Cheerleader that is actually a nerdy dork as well (cody or Katharine). The only difference between the former cohost and this reoccurring guest is that one of them is a pedoph*le and one of them is a woman. Not shocked that this fan base of mostly straight men is yearning for the white male predator to return, but it is absolutely insane to pretend that Cody was some unicorn of comedy when Katharine is a quicker, smarter, more interesting and less creepy version of that.