User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: (5-1) My 15 Favorite Season 4 Episodes/@comment-31194372-20170416225117/@comment-31194372-20170417070435

Admittedly, the two-parters are a fantastic showcase of how adept the show's writers are, and both episodes did a good job at reaching towards pathos, so I can't really smack-talk them too much. It's really just centered on taste because again, the episodes are practically perfect in every regard.

That's a pretty good mindset for Evil Turtle, actually. She's a complete McGuffin now that I think about it. (What? The show throws me a fancy word, I'm gonna use it.) Still, on the basis of being a character, she's really flat and unrelenting. "The Puppy" is an okay episode, and the focus really is more about the turmoil of it all, but the fact that the joke never changed with her (nor did it really intensify too much aside in terms of her actions, which went from biting in a living room to more biting in an exploding van) really weighed it down. "The Nest" worked better because it was more plot-driven and you get to see the family dynamic in full swing which is always enjoyable - she's still a force, but she's not the one pulling the episode along so much as how everybody else is trying to handle the situation.