“The Gang Gets New Wheels” is downbeat even by the show’s low-key standards, a Big Issue–free half-hour that makes last season’s trip to the water park feel high-stakes by comparison. Now watch the characters ponder automotive purchasing. What’d you expect, resolution? Maturity? From Dennis Reynolds? Fat chance. While I voiced some frustration over the season premiere’s efforts to have it both ways, both processing his time away and not, I now count myself among those perfectly happy to move on and get back to normal. Writers room cop-out or no, this move adroitly anticipates the widespread fan reaction to Dennis’s return. Then, once they do, they’re not particularly interested in hearing about it. In the cold open, Dennis gathers the Gang for an important announcement about what happened during the inter-season hiatus, except the problem is that nobody remembers. The first joke of this week’s episode, then, is his presumption that everyone still cares. Five weeks deep in the new season, and I’ll be the first to admit that I’d already forgotten about Dennis’s rumored departure, the surprise child, the family-man bit, all of it.
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