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<blockquote data-quote="Bobby Southworth" data-source="post: 436792" data-attributes="member: 4960">@Snarky&nbsp; Thank you for the tidbit about ratings in season 7. That definitely would help explain a 20 point drop from the previous year. You don&#039;t always think of factoring things in like other shows being moved, schedule changes, etc, etc. To me the show was just about funny as ever, but it did seem like maybe they were on the verge of running out of ideas. However, this being the last year, it&#039;s hard to know how much of what I&#039;m perceiving as slight burnout, might just be knowing it&#039;s coming to a close, and possibly not pushing as hard because of that? It was still quality material. What you mention of season 1 I do get a sense of. It feels somewhat darker. It does stand as a beautiful time capsule for that period. I remember a long time ago coming across the actual production order of episodes, rather than the original air dates, and I decided to show the episodes to my friend in production order. Well, in production order, &quot;Support Your Local Mother&quot; was the 2nd episode produced, and I remember after we watched, my friend says, &quot;That was the 2nd episode? I&#039;m surprised it wasn&#039;t cancelled&quot;. LOL I then explained to him that I was showing him episodes in production order. I also thought it was funny that he had such a weak impression of &quot;Support Your Local Mother&quot;.&nbsp; It also coincides with the point of view that the network brass apparently had of the episode(I read this in the earlier posts),&nbsp; I personally thought It was a pretty well done episode, even if it wasn&#039;t all that funny. It definitely had that darker tone about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bobby Southworth, post: 436792, member: 4960"] @Snarky Thank you for the tidbit about ratings in season 7. That definitely would help explain a 20 point drop from the previous year. You don't always think of factoring things in like other shows being moved, schedule changes, etc, etc. To me the show was just about funny as ever, but it did seem like maybe they were on the verge of running out of ideas. However, this being the last year, it's hard to know how much of what I'm perceiving as slight burnout, might just be knowing it's coming to a close, and possibly not pushing as hard because of that? It was still quality material. What you mention of season 1 I do get a sense of. It feels somewhat darker. It does stand as a beautiful time capsule for that period. I remember a long time ago coming across the actual production order of episodes, rather than the original air dates, and I decided to show the episodes to my friend in production order. Well, in production order, "Support Your Local Mother" was the 2nd episode produced, and I remember after we watched, my friend says, "That was the 2nd episode? I'm surprised it wasn't cancelled". LOL I then explained to him that I was showing him episodes in production order. I also thought it was funny that he had such a weak impression of "Support Your Local Mother". It also coincides with the point of view that the network brass apparently had of the episode(I read this in the earlier posts), I personally thought It was a pretty well done episode, even if it wasn't all that funny. It definitely had that darker tone about it. [/QUOTE]

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