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Originally Posted by Zimmer4141
The thing that made Seasons 2 and 3 so great for me is that they really seemed more like real people than TV characters. This season, I see the characters merely being used as vehicles for punch lines.
I think it started with Tammy 1. Tammy 2 was first introduced when Leslie went to talk to her, and she didn't seem so bad. Then Tammy 2 and Ron do their fight/sex thing, which she then uses to get the lot for a new library before Leslie talks some sense to Ron. They sort of do the same thing in Ron and Tammy 2, she slaps herself with some jerky but Ron is able to resist it, then he and Wendy break up, he slips up again and they get married, and then when she beats up Tom at their party, he comes to his senses again. It all flowed nicely, and it all made sense, you understood how Ron could get mixed up with her, and she wasn't a one note character, she had coworkers who seemed to like her, she was able to fool Leslie at first, but she also had the crazy side. Tammy 1 though just dropped in out of nowhere, they sort of told us her back story without it ever manifesting itself on screen, and then it was abruptly resolved by introducing Tammy 0, a complete one note character, and having the drink off, where Leslie does virtually the exact same thing she did to Tammy 2 the first time. The Tammy 2 and Tammy 1/0 story lines were just on completely different levels, and it's pretty much continued throughout the rest of this season. Sometimes the jokes land better one episode than another, but the overall plotting is way down.