Coming to the party late, and everyone has already given my comments, LOL! Paul, this was so funny. The perfect episode to "rewrite" in this format ... it was almost like "MSTying" it but in such an original, creative way.
So many funny digs ... at Dan, at Mike, at all the plot holes in this episode. I think my favorite was the one at M&J's "silly sit-com bet" with the men's work vs women's work, and especially Clark telling his mom "Did you think I would invite you here and not stock up on food?" I never caught that one in the episode before, but you are so right! Clarkie finally grew up, LOL.
Very clever and original! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Kathy
P.S. BTW, and just for future reference, I think you could have broken the story up into only two parts -- people routinely post 30K sections on these boards (at least I know I have) so I don't think you have to worry about a 50K story being too long for less than four parts.
