The Very Special Episode is not what it once was and that is a very good thing.
Are you having sex with black Dre?)
Thats perhaps why this weeks episode, which continued the marriage-troubles arc, felt so jarring.

Credit: Ron Tom/ABC
(All of these songs have been, as my colleague Darren Franich put it,officially Hallelujahd.
Time to take em out of rotation for a while, music supervisors).
Youre better than this, black-ish!
I found myself saying to my screen.
If Blue Valentime had skipped all of the Important Episode signaling, it would have been just as effective.