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When it works, The Sarah Silverman Program is hilarious as Sarah finds herself lured by what she assumes are merely lesbians bearing baked goods until she unwittingly discovers she’s joined an anti-abortion group and reasons at the end of the show to her conscience and dog Doug that, “some of the best pastries are made by terrorists dressed as lesbians.”
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Or in another episode where the simple board game Life makes Brian and Steve question the gay marriage law when they debate over whether to put a blue or pink peg in their car — making Brian and Steve consistently funny go-to guys for great subplots when they’re not just playing a gay twenty-first century version of Cheech and Chong.
In perhaps the most daring episode, “Face Wars,” after she’s denied entrance to a country club to play tennis because of her heritage, Sarah and an African-American man argue over whether it’s harder to be black or Jewish, prompting Sarah to don blackface for the rest of the episode. While the action is justifiably one of outrage when she first hits the street, per usual for the show, Sarah is somehow confused as someone fighting for the greater good to open up a dialogue about race before she’s nearly assassinated… accidentally, of course.
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Reasoning that “it’s like I’m the only open-minded person,” the show takes another dive with an entire episode titled “Doody” until the entire set nearly redeems itself with “Ah, Men,” which finds Sarah falling back into a relationship with God (an older, handsome and well-dressed African-American man) and despite his tendency to be clingy and jealous, inviting him to her high school reunion to make a classmate jealous.
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While the concept of the final episode “Maid to Border,” is priceless as Sarah gets her maid deported when she fears the worst, the big plot twist and turning point comes unfortunately south of the other border in the form of number two. And even more unfortunately, this choice upstages two far more hilarious subplots as we discover Brian’s deep-dark secret of only having the Spin Doctors '90s track “Two Princes” on his iPod and Officer Jay’s lifelong ambition to do character based “Gentle Comedy.”
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