User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Parking / The Vase/@comment-30307603-20170512002554/@comment-31194372-20170512165724

I mean, when I say "two episodes," I pretty much just mean focusing on two in tandem with one another. The individual appeals was a series of individual blogs mashed together into some sort of mass blog-post; this was taking two like episodes and seeing how they played off of each other.

I honestly think I might like "Tha Parking" just a nudge more than "The Check," but it's a bit hard to tell. "The Parking" is just really tightly-written and uses all of the Wattersons to the best of their abilities. (I do feel like skimping out on Nicole and Richard in "Th Check" was a bit of a missed opportunity.) And I agree about Richard in this episode: it actually found a way to use his idiocy in a creative, unexpected way. He's still the butt of a joke, but he's the butt of a good joke, and that's all that matters with him.

There's definitely a few select jokes darker than those in "The Vase," but it's the density of it all combined with, as you mentioned, a complete nonchalance to all of them, that I admire so much. Perhaps it's because other episodes were designed to be dark whereas "The Vase'" jumped at the opportunity out of nowhere that I like it so much. It's a great demonstration, at least, of how unexpected TAWOG can be in its joke-telling, I dunno.

Yeah, my other AP exams went moderately okay as well, but at least they're finally over, right? I will say that I totally bailed on taking an AP math class this year, though, so to each his own.