I'm not one to bandy about the phrase "worst episode ever" lightly, but I used it with good cause twice last night. The Simpsons produced a tedious, subtle as a sledgehammer episode that consisted entirely of lame jokes dressed up as political satire that was pretty much painful to watch.

And then The Sopranos spent just about an entire episode on Tony's extended dream sequence. And it wasn't a cool dream sequence like the one on Angel a few months ago (stupid, stupid WB...), it was pointless and stupid and meanwhile, the only things that actually happened did so off screen. The only possible defense I can imagine for this episode is that it shows how Tony's being wrapped up in his own personal issues is distracting him from his duties as a boss and the events going on around him. But does it have to distract us, too? Especially in the third-to-last episode of the last full season of the series?

At least we got to see Khan lt himself turn into a redneck on King of the Hill. If not for that, I would have been better off reading a book or something instead of watching TV last night.