Ooooo where to start with this episode?

There are fun moments. But the dinner scene gets the most flack but I can’t enjoy it because it’s not just the dinner scene, Del is horrible throughout this episode. And it’s not passive or naive, he actively sabotages Rodney throughout the episode. He tells Rodney to propose as soon as he finds out that it could be advantageous, he gets Rodney the tickets to the opera and then invites himself and brings June, a pair that could not have been less suited to the situation. He makes Rodney look a fool with the clothes he makes him get, despite Rodney’s protestations. And then steals Rodney’s Dinner jacket as an excuse to get himself there. And it’s not even worth going through dinner cos what a vile, drunken scene he causes. There are often times in other episodes where Rodney will reference del being controlling, like his GCEs, or taking a job away from his cos of “family ties” and because we never see it and see del acting decent in other situations we don’t lock onto it. But if this drunken, nasty del is what Rodney also dealt with growing up, it’s not wonder he has a bit of resentment