Instant Dharma

This episode is fun from start to finish. Laurie Metcalf is great as a crazed judo(?) karate (?) instructor. The most memorable scene in this episode is the dream sequence. Comedic brilliance. I imagine filming this madcap, prat fall laden craziness was absolute fun.

I've only recently started watching this show. So far it's been mostly OK, not great, but occasionally there are some funny bits. This episode, however, is terrible and not funny. Dharma's dream just makes you feel embarrassed for whoever wrote that and for the actors who were in that. Making stupid faces while emitting stupid sounds and flailing your body parts erratically is the lowest point in comedy, if that can be called comedy at all. Writers often write parts like that when they cannot think of anything actually funny, so they just hope that stupid will be interpreted as funny by the viewers.