The Sarah Silverman Program: Maid to Border
By fred | November 8, 2007
(S02E06) Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode of The Sarah Silverman Program because it’s the last one you’ll get in a while. No, this was not the season finale, there’s still seven more episodes to come, and no, it has nothing to do with the strike either. It was planned that way all along, Comedy Central only airs the first half of the season this fall.
And before we leave Sarah behind for a while, let’s have a look back at this last episode before the break. One that follow the same path as introduced a few episodes back already… kind of.
Again this week, it wasn’t the usual plot where Sarah starts something that grew out of proportion only to blow up in her face. But it wasn’t really a regular sitcom-esque situation either, and it was funny again. Oh yeah, it was funny alright.
Of course Sarah refused to let illegal immigrant being insulted, that’s not why God created them. She defended her maid with all her heart, and of course as soon as one of her toys went missing, it was obvious who did it, and so she fired her - in her very own way :
“I, Sarah Jane Anastacia Silverman, a Jew with a one bedroom apartment, proclaim that you are hereby and hereafter fired. By the power invested in me buy the city of Valley Village, I now pronounce you an unemployed immigrant. Signed and performed by Sarah Silverman.”
But the most funny part of this came when Doug, her dog, “gave” Sarah her little toy back. Of course Sarah went to see her old maid again, but don’t think she would apologize for one second, that’s not how she thinks. Because her maid is an immigrant, and so it was obviously still her fault.
“
- My dog pooped this out.
- You see, I’d told you!
- Obviously someone shoved it up his butt! And you’re the only one who had access to both.
- Que?
- What you hear right now is the immigration authorities, I notified them.
”
How great was that?! This whole story was everything you could expect from her, she was as racist as that old lady I’d like to use an N-word on, if there was such a thing as an N-word for old women like her, whether they play Tennis or not. Somehow I doubt she came to the club to play Tennis.
But once Sarah got ride of her maid, her place turned into a disgusting thing where rats finished pizzas while opossums came to die in less time than you could imagine. But of course she got her maid to come back from Mexico, because while she was mayor because of her American experience and criticism, the pay check here are too ridiculous.
It was all good fun, Silverman-style, and pretty damn funny. As for the other two stories, I liked how stupid Jay looked doing his comedy routine, I’m sorry gentle comedy, but then, besides having the Spin Doctors stuck in my head, I wasn’t too much on the gay friends story.
The Metallica scene didn’t made me laugh, and I was disappointed not to hear any mention of pot or any drugs in who Bryan was. Or even Dungeons&Dragons, which would have been a nice reference the this season premiere.
But that’s ok, it was still a funny episode, and I’m sorry I won’t get to see a new one in a while. So to forget about that, couple of funny things I remember :
“
- Then I realize it’s easier just to support everything.
- When did you decide this ?
- Oh I thought of it this morning, but I can already see results!
”
- I absolutely loved when Sarah, the morning after her maid left, started smashing everywhere around her to find and destroy her alarm clock. And then, suddenly it came back to her : “Doug!!? Doug!??” That was just hilarious!
- Jay’s act was really terrible. “Are we supposed to laugh ? - Only a little, it’s gentle comedy!”
- “Your son has been kidnapped again. - Of course! Go get me the ransom jar!”
- Sarah, down in Mexico. “I’m looking for this woman. Are you her ?“
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