Still being sick and having exhausted other entertainment avenues (i.e. masturbation), I finally decided to give Party Down a go. I ranged the gamut from "A 14-year old could have written these gags!" in the first few episodes, to becoming slightly endeared to the characters at the halfway point, and by the time I was at the last couple of eps I was laughing out loud. Definitely going to grab season 2, though I can see why the show had a hard time. If I wasn't so starved for entertainment here in my shack, or had to judge the series on the first episode, I don't know that I'd have gone back, or stuck with it.