Though shake-weight was large part, I thought Randy carried the episode the whole way through. Not that it was particualrly clever or anything, but his zealousness had me giggling throughout.

Perhaps I just like Randy too much.

It's been on for what 15 seasons,what do you expect. Of course the quailty is going to go down the longer the show stays on the air. After so long all the episodes become the same,it hard to keep a show fresh,year after year.

I don't know, the Slash thing in the last episode was funny as hell. I work with musicians and musical instruments, and really, the guy is freaking everywhere, guesting on every album, superbowl, etc. So I laughed pretty hard about the Slash/santa thing.

Overall, yeah the past few seasons haven't been GREAT, but still very good.

If you think it sucks then why do you watch it? I mean, I stopped watching south park and the simpsons long time ago.

A matter of legacy. This could be a temporary rut, though generally when episode quality goes down it doesn't come back up, but you give a show you've watched and liked a long time the benefit of the doubt. Personally i liked the last half of the season (Cream Fraische et al), but this one has been lacklustre. Not altogether bad, but i'm a wait and see kinda guy

Besides, i'm always doing something while i'm watching TV (unless its a really critical episode of something), so its never a waste of time