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

Firstly,

"I've never tackled two episodes at the same time" because what is reddit appeals, right?

In all seriousness though, another solid article as per usual. "The Parking", while not one of my favorites from Season 4, is still a great episode because the Wattersons play off each other so well, as you previously stated. "The Parking" is a less intense version of "The Check" to a degree as both episodes thrive on how the Wattersons add their own individual flair to the episode as opposed to surprising the viewers with unpredictability (although "The Check" did manage to surprise with the invisible car chase, but I digress). One of my personal favorite scenes in the episode involves Richard's use of Spray Can Guy (that is his name according to me) to design faux parking spaces only to get caught by the mall cop and forced to throw Spray Can Guy off the parking garage. It really is one of the best uses of Richard's idiocy to make an entertaining scenario, and the way he carelessly throws an innocent man off a multi-story complex makes me laugh more than it should.

"The Vase" is another solid episode often overlooked; although I struggle to call it the darkest episode (even taking out episodes such as "The Disaster", there are episodes such as "The Recipe" and "The Wicked" that successfully use their dark themes to comedic effect), the episode does get points for being one of the more subtle episodes about it. "We wreck marriages....SHELLY, PLEASE COME BACK!" is one of the episode's more unnoticed jokes but is the most hilarious because of how nonchalantly it is played off.

I suppose since it has been a side topic between us for the past few weeks, I may as well mention that my three AP exams went...okay. I cannot disclose too much because of the contract I signed, but I will say that the Calculus exam reminded me that potatoes are the master race.