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Least favorite episodes?


What do you think are the weakest episodes of the show?
I maintain that even a bad "odd couple" episode is still better than most of
the crap out there, and Tony and Jack always did their best even
if the writing wasn't so funny.

That said, one of the weaker episodes in my opinion was "I'm Dying of Unger".
Felix getting bitten by the animals was funny ("Hello, little frog! Bebebebebe!!!") and of course, Murray's nose in the peep hole of the apartment door is classic, but there really isn't much to the rest of the episode that makes sense...

--Oscar is given *three days* to write a complete book?
--He does no research whatsoever, and gives up after *one day* of trying?
--Felix is entirely motivated by the hope that Oscar will dedicate the book to him?
--Out of nowhere, Murray suddenly has a cabin?

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First, I agree that the first season had many of the weakest episodes. To me, the one that I laughed the least at was the one about the Eskimo football player.

On the first season DVD set bonus disc were Tony and Jack's favorite episodes, which included the Ballet show. I just watched that last night with my wife. During one of the (too) many dance numbers, I told my wife that I would like her to never drag me to any show that has a lot of this type of dancing--a little is fine, but more than two minutes gets me bored.

I also agree that most of those first season "worst" episodes are much better than 94% of the episodes of any sitcom in the past dozen years. They were all watchable, just not as good as the other shows in this fabulous series.

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I would say Oscar's New Life, where Oscar loses his job and goes to work for a Hugh Hefner type magazine. There is no laugh track on this one,I guess even the producers realized that this was not that funny.

Although Felix's encournter with Oscar's boss (Edward Platt) is a funny moment.

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Although Felix's encournter with Oscar's boss (Edward Platt) is a funny moment.


Any show with "The Chief" in it could never be my least favorite.

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What was my least favorite episode? The last one.

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