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Originally Posted by private joker
I thought it was a relatively weak episode. I liked the ice rink scene and most of the Ben-depressed stuff, but everything else felt tedious and forced. Leslie is tilting back towards self-absorbed and annoying, and nothing Tom or Andy did/said was funny or original. (Tom wearing red carpet in his shoes, Andy making ramen in the coffee pot -- both felt like variations on jokes they've used three or four times already).
I'm glad someone said this, because while I don't feel as strongly as you do, parts of this episode definitely felt like they were just making jokes playing on the characters' most obvious traits. After going to the trouble to really deepen them in S2 and S3, a lot of S4 has felt like it's fallen back on the easiest and most obvious jokes.
However, it wasn't bad or anything, certainly not the worst episode of S4, and I thought the Ben storyline and the walk to the podium on the ice rink totally redeemed the episode. All day today, whenever the room gets a little too quiet, I've busted out "Get on Your Feet" loudly.