I'm in the minority. I like this episode. Yeah, it's a disappointment when you tune in to see Jim Garner, and he gets about ten minutes of screen time. But good writing is good writing, and David Chase is a good writer. I also laughed out loud 4-5 times while watching this episode. I remember seeing it when it originally aired, in prime time on NBC. I've watched it a half dozen times since and remember much of the dialogue word for word. Love Gilbert Green! It's easy to look back now and say the show was running out of steam, but I've been watching season 6 on dvd for the first time in ages, and the quality remained consistently high. There were plans in place to finish the season, which would have meant ten more episodes. Then things bet fuzzy. Garner is exhausted from filming the show and fighting with Universal over money. He checks into a hospital. The shows goes on an unexpected hiatus. Universal sued him for breech of contract. NBC quickly announces Garner will star in a reboot of 'Maverick' and 'Rockford' just falls by the wayside, never going back into production. Summing up: Mickey & Eugene are idiots but the writing is smart and the pacing is swift. Endings are never pretty.
Review of Just a Coupla Guys
