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Highs: In what was easily the most hilarious Eleventh Commandment segment we've ever heard, Father Rob proposed that you should always eat what is put in front of you when you're somebody's guest... but Lino and the callers shot so many holes into Father Rob's commandment that it was unrecognizable by the time the segment was over. As an added bonus, Father Rob got so irritated when Lino advocated just serving pizza when hosting guests that he mocked a phone call placing a pizza order... and started a new catchphrase for the show by inadvertently addressing the pizza at the beginning of the call instead of the restaurant that makes them: "Hello, Pizza? I'd like to order..." We think it's going to be a while before he can live that one down.
Lows: As brilliant as the last hour of the show was, the first half of the show was a complete dog. To begin with, Lino spent waaaaaay too much time pondering why he finds daily Mass so boring and taking calls that tried to convince him otherwise. We won't judge him for the subject (who hasn't gotten bored at Mass before?), but that segment deserved 20 minutes tops, not an entire hour. Following that was a completely lackluster edition of Lino's Casting Couch, a typically good segment that was done in by the rather uninteresting story choice of Joseph, Potiphar, and his wife. We're wondering why he didn't choose something like the story of Naboth, King Ahab, and Jezebel, which is not only more intriguing but would've coincided nicely with the day's Scripture readings. And to top it all off, it didn't help that Lino (and Father Rob to a lesser extent) kept pronouncing Potiphar's name as "Potimer" the entire time. All in all, our brains were pretty much on autopilot during the show's first 100 minutes... and that's not a good thing.
Our take: The third hour by itself is a classic that would've earned an easy "A" from us. Too bad it was preceded by an hour-and-a-half of us looking at our watch wondering when it would end. At least Lino got some good hate mail out of it.
Grade: C+
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