Just wrapped up the Tobias episode, and I have to say it left me a little underwhelmed. Considering how it began, I was expecting one of those big Seinfeld-type wrap-ups where everything comes crashing together, and it never really came. It certainly had plenty of laughs. I just felt like it could have been quite a bit better. That said, I'm pretty much expecting all of these to improve as the series progresses. In a month I'll rewatch the whole thing and probably find all of these significantly better.
One thing that has been bugging me about these is that they'll occasionally obscure something to have the reveal later. Obviously, delayed punchlines are a big part of the show, something we all love about it, but I don't recall them being so overt in hiding things before. There have been times where I've rewound the thing to try and figure out what somebody said, or what something showed (Tobias's license plate, for example), only to find that it was unintelligible or obscured by a glare on the window. Seems to me like in the past they would have just shown the ANUS*TART, we would have said "damn, that's certainly peculiar," and then figured out the back-story later. You laugh twice that way. This way you just go "oh, another joke they'll explain later." Not as funny either time around, I think.