- First, Earl is back!! - I laughed and laughed.
- I love Joy and Darnell. My favorites. They are laugh out loud funny. - Earl and the 1960s sitcom. Classic sitcom love.
- Jane Lynch as the "lonely" truck. Given Earl some coma love'n.
- Joy, talk'n to the crazy trucker lady. "We should take him and clean him up for yeah, and make him NOT almost died."
- Earl's Indian doctor, "We're the new jews."
- "The Hickey's" themes song and opening credits, sweet.
- The sad face "Pull the Plug" pamphlet. Pancake breakfast, yum!
- People come back from the dead all the time; zombies, werewolves, vampires...
- bacons, boobs, amster-jam, "i'm burning for you..", Lounge rock!!
- Even Paris H. "that' hot" goof ball!
- Oh, the old TV with the Joy and her "flawless" skin.
- The little healer boy and his family...can he save Earl?
- Joy's news "highlights", "Joy to the World', With President Kennedy. *teehee*
- Earl, KNOCK'N ON HEAVENS DOOR...the doctors waiting with red bio coolers for his organs.

The thing that I liked most about this show is that the patriot citizens were willing to stand up to the corrupt, illegitimate government. That is a brave and very hard thing to do.

The following are possible parallels to current events:

A private corporation owning/creating a country - reference to corporate power and influence in the U.S. government. This is probable a reference to the mega mercenary company Blackwater an/or Halliburton. Both companies are making big money in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Gray Anderson said, "This convention is a sham. And when it's done I don't think there's anything this government is not going to have the power to do in the name of national security." - reference What George Bush and Dick Chaney has been doing to this country for the last 8 years.

The "patriots" in this show are the citizens standing up to the corrupt, illegitimate government. Patriots in the show do not obey their government blindly. The citizens are the government.

I know this is obvious; September attacks - reference nine eleven

This episode had some wonderful dialog. There must be a special writer just for Andrew. His dialog is so refreshingly quirky.

The crazy slayer that brought Andrew to town looked a lot like the scary girl in the movie The Ring in the opening scene.

The reflective moment between Angel and Spike was so well done. Spike in recovery from his encounter with the crazy vampire slayer. Angel and Spike talk of the lives they destroys when they were evil.

Spike looking at his re attached hands says, She's one of us now. She's a monster.
Angel replies, She's an innocent victim.
So were we, once upon a time.
Angel replies quietly, once upon a time.

At the beginning of a season there always seems to be episodes that don't advance the main show story line. This is one of those episodes. Angel saves a girl from a werewolf. But she is infected by the werewolf's bite and she becomes a werewolf. Angel Inc. helps her get oriented to her new situation. But the girl is kidnapped by a club of rich people that eats supernatural beings. And Angel saves her from the exotic food club, punishing all the bad people.

My problem with this is none of these characters show up for the big stuff that is coming up later in the season. It doesn't even tell us anything new about Angel's Wolfram and Hart take over. In the end only the club owner and the Wolfram Hart employee are punished, the rich patrons get away.

The exotic food club idea came from news stories of real clubs where rich people pay lots of money to eat exotic animals.

What is amazing and unique to the "Lost" franchise is how they can reveal so much and in the end you end up with more questions than answers.

This "flash forward" episode was centered on Sayid. From the first scene we learn that Sayid is one of the "Oceanic 6". It gives us a look at Sayid from many different angles. It shows Sayid as a character full of contradictions. He is passionate and ruthless with his lover in Germany; he conceives and executes a plan to rescue Charlotte from Locke, but he still falls into Locke's trap. This episode made me question Sayid's core motivations. Is he good? Is he bad?

I really enjoyed the twist at the end. The storytellers are taking you one way. The clues seem to be telling you that "The Economist" who Sayid is hunting is Ben. But the end made me wonder, "IS Ben one of the good guys?"