I love this show, but I hate this episode. It is not funny at all. As another reviewer said, it doesn't feel like a sitcom at all, but rather like a bad soap opera. The situations that the characters find themselves in during this episode are not funny, they are just uncomfortable to watch. Debra's passive aggressive and manipulative behavior, Ray's hysterics... there is nothing funny there, although they tried to forcefully make it so. The laughs during the episode feel completely out of place. Why would you laugh at someone acting obnoxiously to their partner, or someone having a meltdown? Adding to that, they again crammed in, for no reason at all, the stupidest and most overused "joke" in this series - it seems that in every episode of this show someone has to tell someone else their breath or feet smell bad. Wow, truly a pinnacle of comedic writing. And it even funnier the thousandth time.
Unpleasant and uncomfortable to watch, that is what this episode is.
Unpleasant and uncomfortable to watch, that is what this episode is.