i think maybe the nature of the show is to get old after 23 or so minutes.  like i think PARTS of this episode were pretty hilarious, but other parts just seemed kind of unnecessary.  it felt like it didn't go through as extensive an editing process or something.  aside from that i didn't really have much of a problem with it.  it was mostly just SIMPLY OKAY.  the whole meredith getting hit with a car thing was a great beginning, and him somehow finding a way to shift responsibility to rabies was also pretty funny. also angela's cat.  but mostly i just thought a lot of it ended up being superfluous, and while that would've been fine if we'd seen better shit going on in some of the other peoples' parts of the story (like we barely saw anything from creed, or kelly, or stanley) that would've filled the time effectively, it just felt to me like instead of doing that, we got a pretty good starter episode mixed with 20+ more minutes of filler.  for such a long episode, i was really hoping to see more of ryan and how big a douchebag he apparently is now, but he got like 60 seconds of airtime.  i think it would've been great as a normal length episode.

Did anyone notice the subtle joke when Michael had the pictures up in the conference room and said that he had run out of ink so he couldn't print more and then the camera shows Creed with his black hair?

Love it.