I think season 2 is the best, mixing comedy and drama better than season 1 without what (to me) felt like excessive melodrama in the third season. Though season 3 did have the hilarious East Hastings plot.

By the same token, "classical" shouldn't refer to anything not written between (roughly) 1750 and 1820 in Europe.

As a New Zealander, I found New Zealand town just too strange for the show and a little weird in that they needed to create a fictional New Zealand for the purpose of the show.

Edit: (I didn't mean to put this here but wanted to explain what I meant by a poor style of direction for a musical)

I think Sweeney Todd as a movie doesn't suffer from any story faults, but suffers more from crappy singing and a poor style of direction for a musical (A Little Priest is a good example of this)

The celebrity cameos have been the highlights so far, though the dwarf showreels were pretty good. I also think it was a good idea to include Gervais and Merchant as characters in the show, and basically have them appear to do very little.

Your comment got me thinking. for a movie supposedly aimed at kids, ROTJ does some very dark stuff. It suggests that Timm and co. were very aware of the teen/adult audience of comic geeks watching their shows.

I quite like the Kung Fu Fighting one from season 5, and the one that will be in next week's review where JD imagines himself as Robin to Turk's Batman.

It's easier just to pretend he isn't. It really helped me when watching the movie.

Finally on the first page of the comments!

I just watched this, after having given up sometime in Season 1. Is the show typically this good, or at least in the ballpark?

There is a Mullholland Drive HD-DVD available, but it could look quite a bit better.

Did anyone else feel a little uncomfortable watching this episode? Maw-Maw's plot in particular had me cringing a lot more than it had me laughing.

I really like how Artie gets gradually sucked into guiding Hank on his routine, starting with the comments on opening with a showstopper and leading into him sitting in at the rehearsals and talking about if Hank wanted to go latin he should have done a salsa.

I feel like this is the best place to say it, rather than on the Happy Endings reviews because they would crucify me for saying it, but I don't find Casey Wilson funny. I don't find her particularly unpleasant to watch, just not really funny at all.

I think Jiggly-ball is actually a season 5 episode.

Maybe Aileen doesn't choose to view the world through that lens.

No Marge, they weren't all Happy Days.

I enjoyed this episode a lot. I guess I'm a bit of a sucker for the more conceptual Sunny episodes (I liked Frank's Brother, even though I thought it felt cheap), but this was still damn funny.

There is the one time that she is actually there at the end of the season 5 thanksgiving episode, but they throw the pie in her face to cover her up.