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Next episode is called "Don't Be Ridiculous."
Maybe it will include more Perfect Strangers details.

"I don't think anyone who works on the show has actually heard any hip hop." I think Timbaland might argue with that assertion.

Did anyone else think that "falling in the fountain" joke was a call back to the office? Michael admits having fallen in multiple fountains in "Koi Pond."

Gram didn't know her head would explode.

What do people think Stevie and Conrad discussed that pushed her to brink of drinking? She said something about needing to come clean and the next thing you know she was pouring a drink. My guess is that she told him he is Jack's father. Pure speculation though.

Liza Minnelli talks about her hip.

I would add fear of loneliness to the themes of the episode in addition to aging, decay, and sex. Loneliness seemed to be at the heart of the Kyle and his mom story, Misty Day, and Queenie.

getting the title of the episode wrong, repeatedly, in your review is pretty bad. I've give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume you watched an untitled screener.

I agree that boy dance party was the best sketch, but I got the biggest laugh out of Bayer's delivery as Gaga telling penelope cruz "I have no idea what you just said" and Killam's delivery as eddie calling his mom's date a "moron."

I like the Bennett/Diaz (Benetiz?) story as much as the next guy, but I feel like there might have been more plausible ways to explain its origins.  I just didn't buy that Bennett would have taken to her so soon after her arrival in prison.  I would have found it more realistic if she had been there for a while when

Jessica was hilarious in the episode.  "Steve Newlin's ex called me a demon whore."

HBO's most popular "drama?"  At least  drama in italics or something…..

Literally, yes. But I thought it was also a figurative statement addressing the shows larger metaphor and the sense of futility behind the charcters' apathy. I could be reading too much in.

I agree that everyone seems super apathetic but maybe that works within the larger metaphor of the show. The characters were "trapped" long before the dome arrived. This is summed up well in Junior's comment down in the tunnels. He said something like "what's the difference, we're trapped out there just like we're

I agree that the funeral sketch was lame, but I did love the part about stealing from the dog:
Q: What kind of person does that? 
A: Maybe someone who has been abandoned by society.  Maybe someone who needs protein. 

Not a great episode, but it thankfully brings an end to this uneven, lackluster season.  I do enjoy Fondue for Two, though.  And  tonight it had the best and most apropos line of the season. 
Britany, introducing Sue and Will: "Two people who were sworn enemies, then they were friends, then enemies, then friends, then

Loved this episode.  I take issue, though, with your description of Meredith, Stanley, etc. as "inconsequential."  At its heart, this is a show about an office and the supporting cast is vital to that.  

I laughed for about a minute straight at the Dwight and Mose portrait.  Perfect!

I loved Emma telling the mean girls off: "maybe she sleeps with all her pets…..and you have toilet paper on your shoe." Bam!

"Ruby? I wish that was my cousin's name?"