I never even watched 5 after how disappointed I was in 4. I need to do a full rewatch soon and go all the way through.
I have seen a few episodes of season 4 one time and that was enough for me to know that I would never be watching anything past season 3 ever again. I also got into the show before they started making the new seasons tho which probably affected my opinion more than if I was thru watching for the first time post reboot
Seasons 1-3 are in the pantheon of best shows ever made. "Untouchably amazing" is right Seasons 4-5 are like a cover band version of Arrested Development. They make me sad. It's not even close to the same show, not in structure, not in jokes, NOTHING. There are some funny moments but almost none of it works and the episodes feel endlessly long.
You guys are wrong about season four. It's not as tight as the first three, but it is very, very funny.
I liked season 4 fine when it first came out but it’s felt like hitting a brick wall when I’ve tried to rewatch the entire show since
My biggest complaint was they tried to essentially serialize the show, with these long plots that lasted all season but weren't that funny even in small doses. It felt VERY repetitive. Yes, there were funny ideas in there, but overall it didn't work. And season 5 was all of the same flaws except even worse. Also the narration goes from being a key to the show in seasons 1-3 to kinda WAY TOO MUCH in the later seasons as they lean on it to explain so much more
Stand with the original run season 4 opinions in here. It's very good, and well done. My order is 2 > 1 > 3 > 4 (original run) don't even rank the remixed 4 and S5 seeing as I watched them both once, barely paying attention.
Tobias dressed as the Thing walking into To Catch a Predator is one of the funniest jokes in the entire series
“Daddy needs to get his rocks off!” The way the writers always got Tobias to say something innocent that has a sexual meaning is masterful.
The best part about those jokes is that they almost certainly wrote them all backwards. Like, they definitely came up with “I’m afraid I just blue myself” and then wrote some convoluted storyline to shoehorn the joke in lol