I don’t normally watch and record Malcolm in the Middle, but as I was flipping through my program guide, the tivo gave a description that was something like this:

When Hal and Lois discover Malcolm and Reese’s plan to sneak off to the Burning Man festival, they decide to make it a family outing, with predictably disastrous results.

I just watched it. Here’s all you need to know: the family drives up to burning man in a camper, then pulls out the barbeque grill as a random assortment of burners wearing feathered headdresses and body paint watch in astonishment.

I’m going to have to go on the record and say that that was frickin’ sublime. So good that I had to google to see what the burn community thought. I don’t know why, but watching them debate whether or not liking any sitcom at all was pretty funny. Most seemed to like it. It’s a benchmark of good satire when you can even make the subject matter laugh.