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What am I gonna do when there's no Jossy show on in the middle of the week, to get me through Straight Job Forced March to Friday? It's.. *sniff* ... it's the only show I whuh- whuh- whaaaatch!

*breaks down and sobs wildly*


Smiletime...


Oh, my God. That destroyed me. I was looking forward to it, and I'm a sucker for sight gags, but I never imagined they could sustain it for a whole show and keep making it funnier.

I managed to notice a few deeper threads under the charming self-lampooning buffoonery, too, which cemented my Angel lurve. Self-esteem is for everybody... unless you're Puppet Angel, in which case you'll go for breakfast with a pretty werewolf after saving millions of children -- and then chicken out when you revert to hulking vamphood. Wanna bet? C'mon, I betcha a quarter.

Angel as Puppet (of the PTB, of W&H, of the tides, the Lotto, take your pick) is so obvious it doesn't need to be remarked on... what kills me is they turned the whole Marionette of Fate thing on its head and made such glorious fun of it. While mocking the very medium they're using (zombies suck as employees, zombies can't even run a camera)...

Courage and Pluck! It takes courage to make such an ass of your protagonist and make the audience love it while you do. Even as I grin, I feel a fresh rush of grief that they've cancelled this brilliant show.

Hm. Did anyone notice that puppets get to cuss a lot more than human actors and get it past S&P?

I must say, the opening teaser gave me the sick havers. That beautiful kid... that nightmarish dialogue... ugh. I wasn't sure if I could hack that... I immediately wondered how parents would feel.... but I'm glad I stuck it out.

How on earth do they manage such a blend of horror and farce? That's what I love about the Jossverse stuff at its best, that blend.

It would be very hard for me to love this ep more, despite the relative lack of Spikeage. (Aw, but look! Angel's gotten to the point where he hands out cars to Spike without protest, after Spike sinks, hocks or otherwise disposes of them. Awwwww....)

On that note, I loved the rolling Angel-Spike fight in the lobby, and the blase reations of the employees. They've gotten quite used to the CEO brawling with that weird relative of his. :D That gave me the warm fuzzies.

Okay, must eat and curl into a ball. And bawl with laughter. That was so good it hurt.

And now I'm told that was David Fury in a cameo as the trapped, tomented Puppet Master, betrayed by his own creatures. !!

All is forgiven, Dave. :D