The Sarah Silverman Program: High, It’s Sarah
By fred | October 9, 2008
(S02E07) Just like with South Park, it’s been a while since we last had a new episode of The Sarah Silverman Program. I’m not sure this was as much an intentional mid-season break as it was caused by the writers’ strike, but either way the results are the same, and more important is that the second season can now continue. Note however that from now on the show won’t be the lead-out of South Path anymore, and starting today the show’s regular timeslot is Thursdays at 10.30 – meaning that yes, there’s already another episode tonight!
But before that we obviously have to spend a little time on this one, which was both not your typical episode of The Sarah Silverman Program and yet at the same time exactly what you’d expect from the show. It wasn’t really the typical episode in that the main story of the episode wasn’t exactly Sarah-centric, not in the way they usually are - but I think that’s actually a good thing.
Sarah was of course the central character of the story, and the driven force behind it, and she still didn’t care about the consequences of her actions (not even for herself ), but it wasn’t the usual self-absorbed Sarah who only thinks about herself and put herself on a pedestal, not really. It wasn’t because this time, we had two Sarahs, the sober one, and the one high on weed. Mostly the second one though, as the first one was only following instructions from the other one.
Might be hard to believe, but she’s naturally crazy, and she had never smoke pot before, despite having two gay friends whose favorite activity has to be getting high. And so after a very weird moment where Sarah and Brian stared at each other while closing the door, a scene just completely hilarious, they decided to spend some time together, and Sarah tried marijuana for the first time.
After being unimpressed at first - “So that’s being high, huh? I was just hungry all the time and ultra-aware of my body hair” - she had a revelation, when she’s high her mind reaches new level of clarity and she has some crazy-awesome ideas. The first one wasn’t much, it was just telling the cook of the restaurant she goes to every day how much he means to her, and that turned out to be a great thing to do, everybody looking at her and complimenting her.
She didn’t need as much to fully embrace the idea, and start listening and acting on to every single thought she left herself on her voicemail, without questioning anything. Soon, she ended up kidnapping the CEO of a very large company and keep him hostage at her place. She tried to explain why this was the right thing to do to the dozens of cops standing outside her apartment, but somehow it didn’t sound right. “Schaarcorp is evil (..) because they make potato chips.”
In the end this whole story was more of a “traditional” one, in the sense that we pretty much could have been following any stoner listening to his/her high-self, but it had all the right mount of craziness one is used to love from the show. Perfectly mixed with Jay (and Laura) trying to explain - on TV - why “nocturnal ad-missions” are nothing to be ashamed, and this was a pretty perfect episode.
I didn’t stop laughing for one minute, so much that I’d be willing to call this episode one of the best of the season, if not series, yet. And because it was so good, I have to mention a few of quotes that I really loved :
Starting with the opening statement, one of the best ever, right? Of course, you need to visuals to get it… “Hi, I’m Sarah Silverman, and I’m afraid I have terrible news. I caught Jay cheating on Laura. And it’s worse than you think.”
Laura: Sarah that was incredible, what made you say all that ?
Sarah: I’ve been doing drugs!
Sarah: We did it.
(Looking at a sign now saying “Valley Village - smells balls”.)
Brian: No, weed did it!
Sarah: Did you know, Brian, your name is brain if you switch the two middle letters.
Brian: I know, I’ve been high before.
Sarah: Thanks to your greedy company Brian is a, unemployed gigantic mess of a human being !
Brian: Yeah, I’m a mess!
Brian: I’m sure we kidnapped this guy for a perfectly good reason, but I can’t quite put my finger on it right now.
Sarah: Yeah, I’m with you Bri… Oh maybe voicemail knows.
Voicemail: Sarah, I know you’re sober right now and you think you’ve gone too far but, trust me you haven’t.
Sarah: Phew!
Brian: Yeah, for a second there I thought we were in too deep. (Looks at the tied-up CEO.) Think he wants out of there ?
Sarah: No, he’s playing!
CEO: Miss, you have no idea the situation you’re in! Do you understand that I am the President of one of the largest corporation in America ?
Sarah: I’m sorry I’m trying to focus on what you’re saying, and I just… I can’t, cause you just have live no charisma. At all.
Sarah: Everybody listen up! I can explain this. Schaarcorp is evil.
Cop: In what sense ?
Sarah: Because they make potato chips. And, and… and other things.
Cop: That didn’t sound really bad.
Brian: You’re not explaining it right! It’s like when you have diarrhea, and then the solution is… slavery.
Sarah: What!??
CEO: Has it ever occur to either of you that maybe marijuana may not be your friend ?
Sarah: Wait a minute, you’re exactly wrong !
Voicemail: Sarah, it’s you, sober-you. I need you to know something, you’re an idiot when you’re high!
Sarah: Wow Doug, marijuana really expands your mind. Like one thing I realized when I was high, is that ‘bacon’ spelled backwards, is ‘no cab’ which is exactly what black people can get!
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