Dharma and Greg S02E04 Part 4

The Paper Hat Anniversary.

It's traditional to fight on your first anniversary (even if Hallmark doesn't have a card for it): Dharma and Greg stage an argument to escape their parents' planned celebration, but in concocting the excuse Greg says Dharma was being "flighty," and the gloves come off. While they drive out of the city, Dharma retaliates by calling Greg a "stick in the mud," and soon their car is stuck in the mud when he tries to demonstrate how impetuous he can be. (Not very.) They hike to a diner, but find it closed because of a death in the owner's family; just as Greg breaks a pane in the door in order to use the phone, a highway patrolman happens by and the young couple get caught in a charade of being the replacement cook and waitress. There's a nice unspoken continuity with the first season episode in which Greg really did become a short order cook, and it's nice to see him sharing Dharma's role-playing game, even if unwillingly. But Dharma looks tense and unhappy even before Greg accidentally insults her. Are we to infer a further continuity with the stress from the loss of the baby?

Aired: 10/14/1998

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Dharma
• and
• Greg

[BrigidOShaughnessy2]

I love this vanity card.

[rikybee]

hilarious video! Thanks for posting:)

[Mikenike2890]

@Ffmsforever DrCheesewizard posted this episode's vanity card.

[Ffmsforever]

@DrCheesewizard what the hell r u talkin about?!? This is Dharma and Greg not some weird drama u made up in ur tiny little brain

[DrCheesewizard]

and the fear of death were suddenly swept away by this one binding flash of insight. It was so obvious! There are no separate forms of life. Life was life, just sort of wandering around looking at itself, loving itself, and unfortunately killing itself. Which is when Dave woke up, *#@+, showered and shaved, went to work, worried about nonsense, drove home, watched a supposedly funny show, had a stiff drink and went to sleep again.

[DrCheesewizard]

Dave was mildly disoriented when he realized he and Richie were the same person. This sort of cognitive moment tends to undermine a guy's sense of self. But it didn't stop there. When Dave looked around the room, he realised he was also Kate and Lorraine and Ted and Lenny. Heck, he was also the dying philodendron on the windowsill. Suddenly, he felt enormous compassion for all these variations on himself, or rather, "ourself", which he thought was a more appropriate label. The pain of lonliness