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(S02E06) "We Parcells are neither wealthy nor circumcised, but we are proud!" - Kenneth, trying to find money to replace Jack's missing pants
This show is less than a half hour long but I have a harder time reviewing it than I do two-hour season finales. How do you review a show that has 25 awesome one liners and a bunch of great comedy bits and scenes without simply repeating everything that just happened to people who have already seen the episode? How do you even pick one funny quote from those 25 lines and put it at the top of the review? The one above might be the funniest, it might not be, who knows. It just stands out to me.
It's not easy to make jokes about terrorism and race. People are either made uneasy by it or it's so forced that it's unfunny. This episode got around that by being...well...funny as hell, and going so out there that you really didn't have a chance to be offended. Liz suspects her neighbor might be up to no good because of the maps in his apartment, his attitude, and his practicing on the monkey bars at the local playground.
This whole episode had a political vibe. Everything from Liz's neighbor to Jack's involvement with a woman he is horrified to discover is a Democratic Congresswoman from Vermont (Jack's a staunch Republican). But he really likes her (Tracy compares the relationship to the Capulets and the Romulans), and he wants to make it work out, even if they have to have the affair in private.
The three moments that stand out for me:
1. Everyone wearing Sheinhardt Wig Company T-shirts (they own NBC). Very subtle, very bizarre.
2. The Lifetime movie about the Congresswoman getting shot in the face by a dog, with the ridiculous title of A Dog Took My Face And Gave Me A Better Face To Change The World: The Celeste Cunningham Story, which if you think about it isn't that much more ridiculous than Lifetime's real movie titles.
3. Tracy practicing his Rerun dance at the start of the show. The way Jack and Liz are talking on the phone in a split screen with Tracy dancing in the middle...I laughed out loud. That big pause at the end of the scene...so funny.
If this strike goes on for a long time, this is the show I'll be sorry to see gone for the rest of the season. I think it's the closest thing we have on the air right now to an Arrested Development or a NewsRadio.
| Yeah, it's true love. | |
|---|---|
| No way, she's a Dem, he's a Republican. | |
| Depends on how many episodes Edie Falco can be in. |
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