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OVERALL IMPRESSIONS: The episode is a clever takeoff on penis size jokes, only with cell phones. In this case, smaller is what's desired, not bigger - at least at first. The way the idea is handled makes it clear that the show is more than a match for "Seinfeld" when it comes to turning one minor premise into a hilarious episode.
MEMORABLE MOMENT: Oscar's call to the anonymous gambling hotline.
MEMORABLE LINE: From Lacey, making fun of Brent's and Davis' miniscule cell phones: "you two can call each other and talk about the Power Puff Girls."
KUDOS TO GABRIELLE: This is some of Gabrielle's best comedic work of the first season, second only to her performances in "Grad 68" and "World's Biggest." I laughed myself silly more than once, especially when she's making fun of the guys' tiny phones. Another killer: the way she says "and we are gonna continue with that" after Davis points out that her idea to change the soup of the day shouldn't change anything, since it's supposed to be a different soup every day anyway. Still another: Lacey's attempt to pass herself off to Emma as a pillar of the community was funny enough for me to pause the episode for several minutes the first time I saw it. Lastly, at 10:42 in the episode I always crack up watching Lacey laugh at Brent in the Ruby after Wanda calls him "Big Phone."
FUNNIEST SCENE IN THIS EPISODE: When Lacey asks if something which has been around for almost seventy years doesn't automatically merit dignity and importance, and the camera shot switches to Oscar.
BLOOPERS:
1.) When Brent says "Here you go, Davis, it's $7.15," the bag of bread has plastic sticking straight up out of the bag. The angle switches, and suddenly the plastic is far less visible and not sticking straight up at all.
2.) When the mayor comes to The Ruby to tell Lacey that her application to join the chamber of commerce has been denied, the position of her hair on her left (viewer's right) shoulder changes more than once, most noticeably from the time when she asks if rat traps are humane to the time she says "I hope not." Another obvious series of three shots begins when Lacey asks "You reject people for the chamber of commerce," and in this one the last shot also has her hair over the other shoulder looking much different in the last shot as opposed to the first two.
3.) The stuffed animal Oscar gets in his first try is facing a different direction when he's going for it than it was when he first sits down. If you assume the direction Oscar is facing is twelve o'clock when he's sitting at the machine, the stuffed animal is first facing roughly three o'clock, but then a lot closer to six o'clock until Oscar snags it.
4.) Another series of Lacey hair bloopers is visible when she suggests the idea of raising money for charity and Brent mentions a teacher that shaved his moustache. These are visible on both shoulders; the most blatant one is just before and after Brent asks her "What did you mean, a field full of rats?'" - just before he asks she has hair on her left shoulder, and just after, it goes straight down her back.
5.) When Davis is browsing for paraffin, his pen hops up and down in his pocket. Any time you see the angle from Brent's back, the pen is about as far down in Davis' picket as it can get, but when you see the angle facing Brent, the pen is up high enough so that the clip barely touches the pocket at all.
6.) When Lacey sits next to Brent in the restaurant and tells him that the grain elevator has been declared a historical site, shots of Lacey show her hair on her left (viewer's right) shoulder, and shots of Brent show Lacey's shoulder with no hair on it.
7.) When Oscar is sitting at a table in the bar, Hank sits down to ask him how the hotline call went. At that point, look at Oscar's beer, and then at it again when the scene shifts and Oscar says he's banned from the hotline - the glass gets a full sip of beer back. As the angle between Oscar and Hank goes back and forth, so does the level of Oscar's glass.
NITPICK: When Emma catches Oscar going through her purse, the clock says 12:40, and the lights are on in the living room during a day where it couldn't be more bright outside.
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