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This is one of the greatest episodes of any television show ever. It's the famous 'punk rock' episode and it delivers on every level. From the band Mayhem shouting their anthem "Next Stop, Nowhere" to the talk show that the punk kids appear on, telling the world that they are "fighting boredom." Forget the last episode of M.A.S.H.-this one is far more important. There are classic scenes that take place at a local L.A. punk hangout that include the punk band Mayhem (concocted for the show), where the punk kids sneer and hurl insults at Quincy the likes of "your the problem! Your whole damn sick society is the problem!," and "Besides-who cares man..." The episode itself is a raving advertisement for normality and is laugh out loud fantastic. As Quincy spends the entire episode trying to locate a killer who took an ice pick to some dudes back in a "slam pit" while zonked out on pills, the punk kids are subjected to a total lack of understanding, a masterful touch of suburban propaganda that'll have you giggling for weeks to come.

I do believe that this is possibly one of the most brilliant films ever made. If there is a single soul that even remotely complains that it is slow or long is either a.) not into movies, or b.) not intelligent enough for the overwhelming amazement of what this film offers both visually and emotionally. Forget all other masterpieces, this tops them all. Each and every performance is of such depth that repeated viewings cannot begin to reveal the details of each frame and moment of Solaris. It is not a difficult movie at all, not by a long shot. It is simple, direct and completely hypnotic. The mystery involved is titillating, the looks on the characters faces priceless, the story as wide open as eternity itself. I have yet to see the re-make, and fear greatly that it will be nothing more than a laughable revisit of an already totally perfect film that asks more questions than it answers while asking of the viewer nothing more than to sit back and swim along with this poetic adventure-a visual delight that takes you from the earth and into space and through the end of your mind. Truly a breath taking experience.

Once again Steve Coogan destroys us with his fabulous Alan Partridge character-this time in the form of a 30 minute documentary about Alan's career and ideology and what his future holds. This doc is included on the second disc in the second DVD series of the second series, and it is absolutely fantastic. In the documentary we see Alan as even a bit more bitter and out of touch than on the actual show, as he reads aloud from his book, insults callers into his radio show and stays firmly anti-London. It's nice to see that as recent as 2003 Steve Coogan has held onto the center of what makes Alan such a watchable disaster; It's just plain funny.