Very good interview with CK and Terry Gross on NPR
http://iamatvjunkie.typepad.com/i_am...ry-gross-.html
I thought this episode had some good concepts, but didn't pull them off as successfully as they should have. The opening bit with cab drivers doesn't really work given the tone of the rest of the episode. I thought CK was going to create some bizarro world where people go out of their ways to make sure horrific acts like waiting for a cab never happen to you. Instead it is a one off joke, that doesn't really fit in the the rest of the episode.
Some of the airplane stuff is really good. We see all these things annoying CK, but he never actually confronts anyone, which is much more true to life than most sitcoms/standup acts were the protagonist becomes the hero, by acting indignant. The other guy putting his laptop in the CK's bin, is a pretty great 5-10 second short film. The only catharsis we get is during the tag when CK loses it on this lady who can't get her bag in the overhead compartment.
The whole sketch is so deadpan by the end it feels very inert, eventhough it does give us some very funny moments, CK pretending not to look at the angry guy, "I use it too masturbate, it's designed for sex, but I just use it to help me masturbate"
I think there was a good concept for the bit in the south, but they ruined it looking for a climax. In general I think the show searches for climaxes too often, when it's unassuming nature allows them to build to a lot of anticlimaxes. Once the guy pulled the gun on CK all the work that went before it went out the window and it become pretty atypical and not all that funny.
Edit: How could I forget to mention Todd Glass.