[Fish Sandwich]

I think this two-parter is another one like the Cygnus episodes for me where, also not too dissimilar to Die again, I kinda appreciate it more in theory than I seem to enjoy it in practice? My lasting impression from the time is the same vague sense that it just wasn't ~quite~ as exciting for me as Fourze always was, even though I was still having fun. My impression of it from a rewatch, thinking much more actively about these shows year later, just kinda isn't any particular impression at all? I didn't suddenly recognize it as some secret masterpiece, but I didn't come away thinking "oh, they obviously messed *such-and-such* up" either.

The decision to follow up the big climactic final form debut with something that is both literally a sort of vacation episode yet also expands the lore greatly to move us into the next chapter, I actually think that's pretty dang smart and appropriate, but it just doesn't really get me going, in spite of that? I was actually just recently reminded one of the bits of mythos here is meant to explain Fourze's PlayStation button limbs, and it was a "reminder" because I've never thought about that explanation at all in the nearly 15 years since. I'm not sure exactly what that suggests about the story here, since that's just one little part of it, but I feel like it might represent some kind of larger reason these ones don't stick with me too much, even with plenty of neat concepts in there.