Food writer Jeff Love starts a journey with a tale that’s best to begin here, with its conclusion to come later on CliqueClack Food in his always awesome Redneck Cooking column.

I got an email the other day from Keith. He asked me to do him a favor. I asked what the favor was. He said, “I need you to drink a six-pack of beer.”

Now that is the kind of favor I like my friends to ask me for. I quickly agreed to do the favor. I asked, “what kind of beer do I have to drink?” He said a six-pack of the Land Shark Lager he reviewed recently in his brew review column. After reading the review, it didn’t sound too bad, so I still was willing to do Keith the favor. In the back of my mind I kept thinking, “Keith has never been this nice to me before, so what’s he got up his sleeve?” Has Keith finally became a saint?

After several emails back and forth I was feeling pretty good about this “favor” Keith wanted. In his last email, he showed that he was not a saint, but more a sadistic bastard. Keith did not want me to do a review of the beer; instead he wanted me to watch an episode of According to Jim after drinking a six-pack of beer to see if the show was funnier.

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NBC

(Season 2, Episode 7)

Thank you, NBC! Thank you for moving Life out of the near dead end position of Friday night, 10 p.m. and into the world of normal primetime. You even moved it up one hour so us hard-working folks can get some sleep after a long day. Again, thank you. Now, all that the rest of you have to do is watch the freakin’ show so it doesn’t get put back onto Friday nights or, worst of all, canceled.

Mind you, no pressure.

Aaaannnddd, with that harsh reminder sitting in your hippocampus, let’s discuss this week’s episode.

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