Yes, this is a very good point. You're right! He's a great transitional character for the tone of the show, and so funny anyway.

Yes! Shoot, I forgot to mention this in the bullet points. It was good!

For A-level, my usual (imperfect) clearance level is whether I'd remember big joke set-ups in six months. Maybe if the payoff was a little stronger? I did think about an A-. The basic answer is: I liked this one a lot. The real answer is that I hate grading this show (or any others, frankly).

I enjoyed it too, I just…this is a weird show to review. It's not exactly objectively good, but I like it a lot anyway?

That's a good point! The breaks have been good.

You're right. I conflated the two. (Although the "ill-advised music career" riff is not a well they really needed to dip into again.)

Yeah, as a Lutheran, me neither!

Apologies, y'all. I was working off memory of the original plan and should have checked that.

That's the all out dumbest element in this one.

I'm pretty sure it's gone after the second or third episode, per her tweeting about it over the summer. It goes back to normal at some point.

"She's real sick."

Oh, it's not the history or the decision making behind those buildings that seems odd. Contextually, it makes total sense. And I'm from the DC area, I really like all those buildings. But it is, context-free, a little peculiar—on a smaller scale, like seeing a mid-century modern home or something with a Spanish…

Evidently, he was in developing/construction. So, probably got out at the right time?

Red card on my part, sorry, y'all! I'm actually a big fan of Martin Short's, just not on this hour of television. He and Matthew Perry try to one-up each other here, and it's kind of terrible.

I like the part where Rebecca Romijin rows up to a Restoration Hardware cabin from which you can see the Washington Monument, backlit in the distance, and then…like, a small cityscape to the right of it.

It's sort of off-handedly mentioned in passing, but yes, you've identified about how it should but cannot play. It seems like the set up for Archer.

Sure. Originally, I had in mind Joe Blanton except, you know, not this season.

I got texts from a couple friends yesterday who thought I'd been kidding about reviewing this.

"Beliebe." -Katherine Miller

Gore was actually a highly involved vice president. Gore and Cheney were very atypical, historically