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Originally Posted by steamraise
Which season would you reccommend if someone wanted to buy just one season?
Wow, this is really difficult, because each season has its merits. I liked Steve, for example, but love Jefferson, and also the odd cameo by Officer Dan. I liked the whole 'NO MAAM' thing in the later series, and Bud's fratfull of losers, and Jefferson's ageing pretty boy antics, and Bud going through his Grandmaster B phase...
But I think I have to go with season 3, probably, because of a few specific episodes. One where the Bundys go to the beach, one where the Bundys and the Rhodes all go camping and all the women get periods at the same time, and the one where Peg and Al get sex-taped at a motel, and the judge dismisses it because something that fast can't be considered sex....but the standout is the one where Al returns 'The Little Engine That Could' to the library, and gets criticised as a loser by the same librarian as when he was a boy (season 3, episode 1). and he gives this speech:
"So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would, I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman, and I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be, are still out there, being what we don't wanna be, forty hours a week, for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun to my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!"
Last edited by diebitter; 06-03-2008 at 08:54 AM.