If I'm gonna watch a comedy, I like it to be ridiculous. I am, after all, one of the world's few big fans of the original Casino Royale movie. And that's why I like The Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central. And probably why Tara does not like it. She decided to watch the latest episode, entitled "Fetus Don't Fail Me Now", with me last night, though, because the ads we saw during the reprise of another excellent episode of South Park showed Miss Silverman having a baby all of a sudden, and I guess Tara just had to see what that was about.

As it turns out, Sarah is nine months pregnant at the beginning of the episode, which she doesn't even realize until her friends point it out to her. Apparently God is the baby daddy, but he ignores Sarah's prayers for help.The episode deals with her trying to decide what to do with the baby, only after she is informed that an abortion would be immoral and illegal. (If you've never seen this TV show, it's based on a character who is so uncaring about other people that it's...funny. Really.)

The episode builds and builds into what I thought was the "ultimate episode", with more laughs and shocks per minute than any I've seen, of any show. And then, in the last three minutes (after a short guest spot by Dick Van Patten, who meets with an untimely demise while delivering God and Sarah's offspring), the episode just eats itself. It's such an absurdly disappointing ending that I wonder if they did it on purpose. Did The Sarah Silverman Program just flip me the bird? After all the time I've invested in it?


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