Hello Darkness My Old Friend
Oh Simon & Garfunkel. No duo was ever better at setting a somber mood, and so many years later their music is no less effective than it originally was. Of course, it isn’t merely the song that is so memorable in season 4, but the fact that it’s used over and over and over and over again as the season goes on, and the majority of the time it’s accompanied by a slow zoom on Gob’s hurt, empty face.
The time it’s used with Tony Wonder is hilarious, and the use with the Mongol leader is as unexpectedly funny as anything in the season, but it is the constant use with Gob, episode after episode, that makes it so funny.
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