Al finds out his eyes have been failing and he needs glasses only to discover he hasn't been seeing the world he's living in.
3 Reviews
Eye Glasses
kowboykaziklibey19 March 2019
I wrote this review because an existing review offended me
gilesman6 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Excellent episode as always, doing what they can with the absence of the Queen, and Amanda Burse does a fabulous job in her directorial debut!
The whole plot centers around Al who doesn't want to admit that he needs glasses - and when he GETS glasses, he is disturbed by what he can now see!
My runner-up favourite moment was the Jefferson-shaped shole in the wall after Jefferson steals the contest, but my 1# favourite part was Al trying on the different glasses to the sound of ZZ top. O'Neill is such a big goofy looking guy that it's just pure joy to watch him (and others!) bopping around like fools! They seriously must have had a lot of fun doing that scene, and it seriously WAS NOT LAME.
IT WAS MAJESTY.
The whole plot centers around Al who doesn't want to admit that he needs glasses - and when he GETS glasses, he is disturbed by what he can now see!
My runner-up favourite moment was the Jefferson-shaped shole in the wall after Jefferson steals the contest, but my 1# favourite part was Al trying on the different glasses to the sound of ZZ top. O'Neill is such a big goofy looking guy that it's just pure joy to watch him (and others!) bopping around like fools! They seriously must have had a lot of fun doing that scene, and it seriously WAS NOT LAME.
IT WAS MAJESTY.
An unfocused episode.
BA_Harrison1 December 2022
Al won't admit to himself that he has reached an age where he needs glasses, but Kelly helps him to accept the truth and choose some eyewear.
This episode was directed by Amanda Bearse, making her directorial debut for the show, and it's very uneven: a mix of the very funny and the painfully bad. On the good side is Al's hilarious reaction to finally having 20/20 vision, the man recoiling in horror whenever he puts his glasses on and sees things he would rather not. The episode's nadir is an embarrassingly bad montage where Al and his kids try on different types of spectacles at a store, the scene set to ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man - I cannot stress too much how lame this moment is.
At the end of the episode, Al decides that reality is too much for him to handle (he discovers that a woman he has flirted with is forty, and he can see his wrinkles and bald spot), so he treads on his glasses, content to live in a blurry world.
This episode was directed by Amanda Bearse, making her directorial debut for the show, and it's very uneven: a mix of the very funny and the painfully bad. On the good side is Al's hilarious reaction to finally having 20/20 vision, the man recoiling in horror whenever he puts his glasses on and sees things he would rather not. The episode's nadir is an embarrassingly bad montage where Al and his kids try on different types of spectacles at a store, the scene set to ZZ Top's Sharp Dressed Man - I cannot stress too much how lame this moment is.
At the end of the episode, Al decides that reality is too much for him to handle (he discovers that a woman he has flirted with is forty, and he can see his wrinkles and bald spot), so he treads on his glasses, content to live in a blurry world.
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