After watching all three seasons, I've come to the conclusion that Jonathan Ames is a closet case twisted fetish homosexual. Not the character, the "creator" and writer of the series.
Considering factually that the greater percentage of society are heterosexual, Mr. Ames has subjected us to George, Ray, and Jonathan spooning in bed while sleeping together, Ray and Greene making out, Ray dating elderly old ladies and enjoying them sexually, Johnathan doing a 3 way with one girl and two guys, and he can't stop commenting on the other guy's penis size, George describing to Johnathan his obsession with women that don't shave their underarm hair, a Police officer addicted to S&M, and craving getting his rear end slapped while eating his wife's birth control pills, a trip to a local spa to help a transvestite marry his male Doctor, George's daughter was a "plushy" (makes love to people dressed up in furry animal costumes), half of an episode devoted to George and Johnathan fulfilling a Jewish comedian's fetish to have her feet massaged, Ray's career is drawing a man with a 20 foot penis, and has a fetish cult following group, a Sperm Bank owner, and Johnathan's real father, supplied all the sperm for the bank himself (to cut costs by not paying for spluge from sperm donors), and has more kids than our minds can comprehend, Ray is also a sperm supplier, by jacking off 37 times a day in his bathroom in a cup (as long as he eats enough sunflower seeds) and lastly in this episode George is spooning with a black queer, and trying to connect to his "homosexual other side".
If you remove the aforementioned activity with George experimenting with homosexuality in this episode, I believe it could have been rated one of the highest of the series offerings.
The queer aspects aside, this episode has very interesting characters as well as all of the cast members including Olivia Thirlby, (whom I get a kick out of listening to her run out of breath at the end of each sentence she speaks) all rolled up into one clever episode filmed in a unique and entertaining restaurant. However, the creator of this series just can't seem to leave his sexual hangups out of his episodes, he uses this show to express them. Lucky us. Well, I guess HBO just had enough if it, and the nail in the coffin was when Ted Danson's wife shows up, and totally destroys the second half of the last season.
If this series followed the example of the first few episodes in Season 1, it would still be on HBO. The longer it ran, the more twisted it became..
This chapter could have been one of the series best episodes.
