Kenny Powers' days of burnin' ass are done.  And that is NOT a homosexual reference.

Definitely… The first time I saw Roy getting lifted into the back of the truck was probably the hardest I've ever laughed at anything.

Oh definitely, I was just neglecting it because it was co-written with Arthur Matthews. Of course, I brought up Black Books, which was co-written with Dylan Moran, so what was the point? What was the point, I ask you?

whoops
(Apologizing for the double-ish posts. My first didn't show up so I thought something went wrong.)

Linehan
Linehan's a genius; the first seasons of both IT Crowd and Black Books are some of the funniest episodes of television ever. (IT Crowd begins to fall apart midway through its second season, unfortunately…)

The first season is easily the best of the lot…
…though the first half of the second isn't terrible, either. The third is, alas, mostly terrible…

Oh, okay. I will concede that aside from the fact that the characters are indulging in the very weird and particular hobby of robot fighting—something that no one has even THOUGHT about in the US in at least five years, and which has only been featured, to the most of my knowledge, in one other sitcom*—there were no…

v. Spaced
I'm surprised no one has pointed out the similarity between this episode of Big Bang Theory and the episode of Spaced Tim and Mike built a battle robot, only to be intimidated by another guy with a better robot, who, if I remember correctly, also talks funny.

whaddabout his fath-ah
Not to mention the man's thick Long Island accent. "Dis is a trick I learned to impress my late fath-ah, who was da best fath-ah a boy could have…"