Fox reduced the show’s order to 13 episodes this season. Tonight’s episode was number 9. So unless there’s something I’m missing here, there are four Fox episodes left.
The self-references got a little heavy-handed, but most of them were funny. I thought this was one of the better episodes this season.
Was it really live?
All I can say is I’m going to miss this show, and I still feel sorry for George Micheal.
Can someone recap for me? I missed this episode. 
Thanks.
Just the few seconds at the very end, where it said LIVE in big letters down at the bottom.
Oh, and I’m not actually sure that that really WAS live, or if they just put that caption there.
Which, now that I think about it, is probably what you were asking in the first place.
So…I don’t know.
I’ll just shut up now.
I doubt that it was, because at the end of the “Live” segment one of the crew says something like “Keep it together, we still need to do West Coast.” Since I was watching it from the West Coast (home of local star John Beard ;)), I don’t think that would have been said if it was live.
“So I promise that I’ll listen to you, George Michael, and hear what you are saying, not just what I want to hear.”
“I love my cousin.”
“I love you too, buddy.”
To me, there was enough non-fox bashing funny in this episode for it to still be great. Of course, lines like “See? We’re more relateable now!” or being desperate enough to try to get an oscar winner (Charlize, anyone?) at the fundraiser were gems. I loved the flashing of the website “Saveourbluths” too. I tried the site at that moment and it was getting pounded. (Although it was saveourbluths.com not .org.)
Did anyone get a good list of celebrity stunt casting for the episode? I love that Ben Stiller appeared as Tony Wonder on screen for about 2 seconds. I bet the deleted scenes/gag reel for this episdoe alone would be worth the price of the dvd set.
I thought Martin Short was more drooling than vomiting. The best part of that episode at the time was the revelation that Buster actually learned something at Army. Seeing his skills in action was golden. Out of context as a stand alone episode, that lost a little of it’s punch.
Paraphrasing the best line of the night"
“We’ll go ahead and tell you. She’s the one that dies.”
I really think they did miss one chance: When Richard Belzer showed up, they should have called him John Munch. 
OC Disorder 
Stop it! Your hurting him!
No I’m not. It just looks like I am to make a dramatic point. [Michale slips effortlessly from Andy Richter’s brother/stunt double’s hold]
Don’t call it that.
I really wish they actually came in and filmed the final 2 seconds live. It would have been classic.
Are we sure they didn’t?
Anyway, contrary to majority board opinion, I thought it was one of the best episodes I’ve ever seen.
You may have missed this, which I only picked up on the second viewing:
Donny Richter: We have no grades here. You’re expected to learn. If you do, you get an L for learning. If you fluctuate, you get an F.
Bond-like singers: Mister F!
Wikipedia, for whatever this is worth, says there are four new episodes left, including two next Monday.
TV Guide.com doesnt show any AD through Jan 17. Assuming this season was shown in order, there are at least two episodes, Family Ties and Fakin’ It left.
Any guesses which one would have Justine Bateman? 
LOL!
That’s a brilliant title for the episode with Justine Bateman!
Fakin’ It? 
Yeah, that one ;).
Or… perhaps the other one 
Explain this joke to me:
Lindsay: He can cry, he just doesn’t want to rust.
Tobias: Yes, he’s like the steel man from the Wizard of Oz.
Michael: Tin man?
Tobias: Is that what he’s…called?
Lindsay: He knows.
The “he knows” line is set up like a punchline, but to what? “steel man” as some sort of gay term…?