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I already ripped apart the character in my review of the last episode, and I stand by everything I said. Maggie being recycled for a plotline derivative of her first is a waste of everyone's time. Add to that her general unlikeability and it makes for some excruciating TV every time we see how stupid Michael acts in regard to her. Yes, he has a weakness for women, but why this one? She is so horrible that it's honestly baffling.

Buster's hilarity in the scene where they visit him in the hospital is so funny that it boosts this one from a 3 to a 6. The rest is AD at its worst. I love the show but I just was not feeling this episode.

It's tempting to rate this episode high for it's iconic ending, but when you look at the big picture, it's just not that good. The return of Maggie Lizer is among AD's roughest stretches. She contributes nothing new this time around, living out a plot so derivative of her previous one that you could get credit for Calculus by watching it. In addition, Michael's stupidity just feels too forced. Yes, he's had a weakness for women, but the way he lets Maggie lead him by the nose after so clearly seeing her for what she was last time around is absurd, even for him. But as annoying is Michael is, he's no match for Maggie, who somehow manages to be too horrible a person for the AD universe, I think in part because, unlike most of the show's jackasses, she never seems to pay the price.