Deep Sea Therapy

If you looked up "Deep Sea Therapy" in a dictionary, it would say , "A waste of time!"

Analysis

No, no, no! Bad producers! Now go sit in the corner and think about what you've just done! And promise never to do it again, or big brother will take away your squeaky toys!

Listen up! If you have a situation where the cast are trying to work together to mend their shattered feelings, don't throw in some wise cracking celeb to force them to move on just because you have a schedule to keep with so-in-so in Mexico City, or where ever! On top of that, you hired Tom Arnold: latest recipient in your welfare program for out of work actors.

And for what you may ask? To hear some stale jokes coupled with sexual innuendoes that aren't worth more than a eye roll or two. And to show off his 20 something wife who appeared to be trained to speak when spoken to! Plus she wouldn't give the average 40 something overweight-potbellied man on the street the time of day, if not for their celebrity status along with a hefty bank account. Add that to a cheap round table speech where Tom tells the kids to forget the past and move on. A maneuver that might've worked under normal circumstances had it not been so premeditated, and forced.

Take for instance the scene where after meeting the cast, Arnold ask, "Aren't there supposed to be six of you?" How does he know there're supposed to six of them in the first place? Or the later scene on the boat where he's prying the cast to talk about the Abe/Gladys incident. And after all of this, what have we accomplished? Not a damn thing! At episode end, everyone's opinion remain the same as they were at the beginning: Holly and Sarah were still pissed off, Brian and Josh had made peace and moved on, and Abe still wasn't remorseful.

But shrink acts aside, nor was I impressed with Tom's deep sea fishing expertise.....wait! What expertise? Oh never mind. Special kudos go to Arnold's nameless fishing assistant who did all the work while his boss just sat back and cracked "strained" jokes while his manikin wife smiled and kept quiet like a good li house wife! And at the end of the day, all they caught was a little minnow. Thank you sir, but no thank you!

If the producers wanted to kill time, they could've killed it more productively. Like say having a "professional" fisherman on board? Actually I'd be content if the producers had edited this whole episode out of the season for all the good it did, which was nothing.

I'm not going to dwell on this episode because it was a complete waste of 30 minutes that I could've spent watching NYPD Blue, or Talk Soup. So call it a 1.


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