The real ideas are all gone now. Once again we dredge up Betty White. I have nothing against her, but her character is the same each time she shows up. She commits extremely violent crimes and gets away with it. This is absurd. Drug kickbacks are no excuse for setting a person's business on fire. But Shirley gets her off. Meanwhile Denny and Alan are at a dude ranch in Utah fighting with the other customers and acting like children. It's probably the worst episode I've seen.
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Horse Hockey
Bronco4618 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This show, in my never to be humble opinion jumped the tracks in the final two seasons; and this is a perfect example of that. This can be a really compelling and funny show; until they decide to go political. When that happens your going to get at least a five minute and sometimes ten or more minute soliloquy on why conservatives or conservative values are causing all the misery in the world. In this show Allen and Denny go to a dude ranch in Utah which winds up giving Allen the opportunity to smear the people and the state of Utah in court; because of a truly silly story line concocted to make Utah and it's people look as bad as possible. It was in the second story line that they just lied to construct a story line. Betty White returns needing a lawyer again; because the writers seem to think it's funny to have this firm getting a woman off every time she commits a crime, serious crimes. This time she thinks her doctor has harmed her with a medication for a condition she has. So she needed the medication; but the idea is that the doctor is on the take from pharmaceutical company. They actually have testimony where he witness says that doctors buy the medications wholesale and then get further kickbacks and make a fortune selling these medications to patients. Betty's character nearly killed the doctor by burning down his practice for this. This is where someone should be able to sue the writer of this episode for gross lies. Doctors never buy medications for distribution to their patients. They get small quantities for free, that give to patients when it's appropriate, as a trial. Doctors have been prohibited for 50 years from dispensing drugs. Pharmacists do that, and only pharmacist. But this story line allows the writer to go after the pharmaceutical companies. When this show does story lines involving crime or dealing with the inter-personal stuff in the practice they do a fantastic job. But when they get on their soap box like they did in this episode; it's disgusting. I went from giving this show 8's, 9's, and 10's in the first two to three seasons to any where from one star to a high of three in the last two seasons. Ideology doesn't make for good entertainment. It's just boring. A lot like this review, I guess.
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