The Sarah Silverman Program, “Fetus Don’t Fail Me Now”:
"You ever feel like there’s just a whole bunch of water like kicking around in your stomach?"-Sarah
"They gave me a muffin basket...and that's a euphemism."-Sarah, again
Somehow I forgot this one during the earlier review, probably because I watched it really late Friday night. Weird, because this was probably my favorite of the whole season. About the only way it could have been better is if Sarah had been wearing the fat suit for half the season, like Peggy on Mad Men (retroactive spoiler alert), with no one saying anything. I don't like doing straight recaps, so I'll just note two nice touches: Sarah wants to name the MonsterpossibleJesusbaby "Seth," the same name Jay's turtle suggested a couple weeks ago; Sarah has a go-cart suit with her name on it.
Saturday Night Live, "Paul Rudd/ Beyonce":
"Step one: cut a hole in the turkey"-Something called Dustin Timbersnake, or something similar.
Is this bad? SNL added two new people and I didn't even notice. If I had a critic card, they'd have to take it away.
Other strangeness: why didn't they Let Paul Dance?
Other than that, pretty good. Kissing Family went on too long, Scared Straight was a repeat of an earlier sketch, Seth Meyers hasn't figured out how to do Update yet and Holy Shit Why is Justin Timberlake on This Show Whoa What is He Doing What's This About A Michael McDonald Impression Did He Just Jump On the Desk?
And that was that. All episodes of this show should be two minutes long.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Buffy vs. Dracula":
"I am Dracula"-Dracula
"Get out!"-Buffy
Who says I don't keep my promises (so long as those promises involve watching TV)? This episode confirmed my suspicion: that the awesome, hilarious, casually racist Dracula from the comics is only tangentially related to the one we first saw on the show. The TV Dracula is all Eurotrash hair and mumbo-jumbo about the darkness in Buffy's soul. The comics Dracula is more recognizably human, less a standin for philosophical musings and more an interesting charcter in his own right.
Of course, most Buffy episodes weren't about the villains; the most interesting parts of this episode was Dracula's effect on our main characters, especially Xander eating a spider for some reason (I get that he's under a spell, but why Spiders? Oh, right). Another highlight: Spike explaining that Dracula, the book, is what taught everyone about "the mirror thing", which I didn't catch the first time through. It wasn't a great episode, but it was still better than most of what I watched this week (and this week was a fairly good one).
Randomness: I forgot how bad CGI was in 2000 (ironic-- or perhaps just coincidental-- since Joss Whedon also wrote Toy Story). It's incredibly strange dropping into the middle of a story like this-- the last episode I watched was the end of season 3, and this was the season 5 opener, so it felt like I was skipping a whole year, even though I had already seen them all. Plus it's really really weird to see [spoiler] alive again, and to see [spoiler] before he [spoiler], but that's just par for the course.
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