It is funny, toe-curlingly frank, immensely insightful about family dynamics, and it makes you think about your own family and what you do and don't talk about.
See, that's funny because Toe Jam and Earl is an old video game duo and the new 1UP+UGO… Oh, whatever.
You have to be on your toes: funny but not obnoxious, charming yet not hammy, deep but not psychotic, all on the spot.
When Ms. Kowroski finally gets rhythm, rips off her tutu and joins the jiving ensemble (the women are on toe and funny, the men are usually on the floor and swell), the punch line works.
If these are jokes, they're about as funny as a stubbed toe.
It's toe-curlingly funny, and then it's just horrible.
The podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno takes the embarrassment to another level, with toe-curlingly funny results.
More startling is "The Palm Beach Story," in which Claudette Colbert runs out on her husband (Joel McCrea) even though her toes go all funny whenever he kisses her; she simply needs more money in her life, and that means somebody else.
Of course there will be awful rebound relationships, the feeling that no one will ever look at you because of the shape of your toes or the funny skin on your knees.
Subversive, funny and emotionally engaging, you could put Buffy toe-to-toe with any of the giants of the noughties – The Shield, The Wire, The Sopranos – and it wouldn't be embarrassed.
The worst part was, whenever there was a really funny part you'd see his toes move up and down in ecstasy.
