Ben Mandelker

And it just was hilarious.

I think what I don't need for the show is to joke the joke in the sense that like it's already funny what's happening on screen.

We don't need to cut away to hear Phaedra tell us how funny it is.

Or, you know, like it was funny when Portia dropped her cup.

Like that was good.

but I felt like this episode today was a lot of winking at the audience, like right from the beginning, right from this like Dallas intro that they did, which is the same thing that they did.

I think on real house as a Dallas, when they went to the Jr ranch and like, I was like, okay, I'll let them have like a goofy opening, even though I didn't love it.

It's just an opening, a cold open, but it really liked the whole episode.

They just had to resort to a lot of flashbacks.

It was like a clip show.

And so I was like,

Okay.

You guys don't have enough footage.

Like, and I think this is what happens when something really exciting happens too early in their shooting schedule.

They have to make the other stuff like stretch for the whole episode.

And it was, I don't know.

I just want better for the show.

I want better.

And by the way, and I also want to say, I totally agree about Shamia and Kelly in case I didn't reference that to acknowledge what you just said.

Yes.