2.21.2006

6- Saturday Night Special

This is where the show's adolescent sexuality really comes to the forefront. Many episodes that follow have women that randomly strip, come on strong, and start making out with the main character. Since it happens so often, it seems the show's creators think this is the ideal way for women to behave, but it's pretty stupid and annoying to watch if you're old enough to shave.

A guy tries a computer dating service, reluctantly lies about himself, and ends up with a foxy lady who uncovers his lies and takes revenge while writhing about in a bikini on a zamboni. I'm not making that up.

The second half is a fairly clever story about people's obsession with appearance (Though I find it hard that a podunk middle-class town like Springwood would have such a prosperous plastic surgery industry). It has some above-average gross-out makeup effects and a handful of good moments to make up for the usual bad acting and dull dialogue.

This episode makes no sense if you think about it because- SPOILER ALERT!- the first half was all a dream the guy had before dying and the two female characters in the second half were introduced in that part- but they NEVER EXISTED IN REALITY, they were only in his dream! It seems the filmmakers didn't care enough to separate reality from dream and that may be a nitpick, but it happens a lot on the show and this sloppiness reeks of "who cares?"-ness on the part of the producers.

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