OK, I finally saw this.

Maybe I'm naive to TV show foreshadowing, but i just took the whole bottle-exploding-alongside-sex-scene moment as a cheap metaphor for him climaxing and left it at that. I don't know if I believe that the symbolism was so heavy that it implied he was impregnating her.

He dove into a small hole in a freezing lake in the middle of winter in Chicago. Even if the cinder block didn't drag him to the bottom of it, he's in freezing cold water in freezing temperatures and won't be able to get out. Unless someone saw him and dragged him out, no way could he survive.

On another note, like Joeyjojo said, I still haven't seen any indication of Karen's "implied pregnancy," other than (I think) people saying that's what happens in the UK version. Has there been anything even close to "implication" of that?

Don't really understand how the reviewer found like a dozen "great" things about this episode and still gave it a B- other than the fact that he thought it should have ended 2 episodes ago. Not like the grades really matter, but it was a very solid episode and B- should be saved for the throwaway ones.

Fart.
Seriously.

I'd say best of the season
Maybe because Amy Ryan reminded of the days when the Office was a reliable laugh every week.

I think I prefer a musical monologue to whatever the fuck Scarlett Johansson was doing before that. She looked like she was auditioning for the Friar's Club or something with her odd delivery and hand gestures.

Yep. Courtesy clap at the end, but I'm not sure they made a sound while it was happening.

Or perhaps the bit with Sandler and Chris Farley, where he plays Sandler's wife and just reads out of the Zagat guide. Except horribly, horribly unfunny.

No Southern accent for Patty?
Accuracy or GTFO.

Kerri Russell is a serious funny ruiner. Even if her character is supposed to be a no fun-having wet blanket, she somehow manages to bring the entire show down by being bland and boring.

I'd assume the formula would be a boners:minutes of screentime ratio.

Todd Phillips is best when…
he's playing "creepy motherfucker" in any one of his movies.

Oh, and yeah… this episode sucked. Even in a down season. Certainly not what I would recommend to someone if they asked for a good example of the show.

Somewhere down the line, it just became completely "uncool" to like 2.5 Men. Probably around the time it became the #1 comedy in the country, I'm assuming. There's nothing more uncool than being #1, after all.

Stupid NBC
It really takes some remedial level management over @ the peacock network to keep Parks and Recreation off the air in favor of that bullshit "aren't other cultures weird?" sitcom that I've never heard anyone say they actually enjoy.

To be honest…
If Party Down went on for more than one more season, most of the cast would have left anyway. Even if it got re-upped, it seemed like Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan and Ryan Hansen were leaving to greener pastures. Starz blows, and I'm sure they weren't actually making any money on the show.

From Matthew Weiner in today's NY Times:

Hmm… that's actually pretty interesting. And maybe the reason I don't care for the show: There isn't a single non-idiotic character on it. I guess Kerri Russell is supposed to be some sort of voice of reason, but the only reason she's even there is because she got duped by terrible acting, making her an idiot as…