Grifty McGrift
Wrote the book on flimflammin
You're fast. How many episodes did you watch a day??
You're fast. How many episodes did you watch a day??
Anyway, into season 6 on my current viewing. The Substitute Spanish Prisoner was the one I watched last night, I both love and hate that episode. It's fucking hilarious but in this bitter, constant-cringing way. It's so obvious they're trying to sorta gaslight people into despising Peggy more, and hey, it works. Her behavior in this one especially reminds me of people I've known which makes it that much funnier/irritating. Jeff Goldblum's villain is also one of my favorite guest performances they ever had. I loved that they brought back Jimmy Wichard but also have to wonder how the heck Peggy knows who he is and could be "familiar with his work". The only previous interaction the Hills have had with him was when he almost got Bobby killed and Hank beat him up. It's sort of jarring that after that, she'd have such a chill reaction to hanging out with him, but that's obviously not too big a deal. I feel like I remember some callbacks to the "Dr. Peggy Hill" bullshit but can't help but feel like it'd have been perversely funny if they'd made more use of that. It'd be just so perfect for her to keep flouting that she has a doctorate (kind of like her slipping the "Substitute Teacher of the Year 1996" thing into almost every conversation) and proving that she didn't learn a goddamn thing from this episode and/or is more than happy to be deceptive and ignore the details behind it in order to make herself look good - an extension of the "when you were talking I was singing a song in my head and waiting for you to stop" mindset she's got here.