Baked Sale

Jen can't sell muffins outside the pot shop because it might hurt Vanessa's campaign; I guess because she's Vanessa's foreign exchange student? Why? First, pot is legal, but second, Vanessa's husband OWNS the pot shop. Sorry, but this episode makes NO sense.

A thoroughly enjoyable episode using Jay Leno's character to surprising and effective advantage.

Won't spoil the plot twist, suffice to say Mr. Leno gets a chance to show that he's not just a comedian, he's matured into a really good actor.

The message is heartfelt and positive.

The secondary plot line is ok, with a satisfying denouement, just wish the Jen character would have dropped the phony broken English accent long before this - her storylines suffered because of it IMO (it's completely gone in her subsequent appearances in season 9, thankfully).

The later series episodes increased use of chuck, joe, and ed to play off of mike kept things fresh and interesting.

While a slight change of focus (in some ways welcome - vanessa for congress??), you can tell they all enjoyed working together for real and the buddy-style plots are well done.

Enjoyed this solid and unexpectedly poignant entry very much.