In the volume's first episode, "High, It's Sarah," she gets high for the first time with her friend Brian (Brian Posehn). While high, she develops a series of crazy ideas and leaves herself a voicemail message. When sober, she receives the message and acts on it. At first, the ideas sound good, but she starts to trust her cell-phone self a bit too much in a series of events that lead to a hostage situation.
This episode is followed up by one where Sarah decides that her friends have all become boring and dumps them all for a new collection of friends. This leads to a few awkward situations when Brian, Laura (Laura Silverman), Steve (Steve Agee) and Jay (Jay Johnston) show up in the coffee shop while Sarah's new friends are there.
One of my favorite episodes from this volume is "There's No Place Like Homeless" where Sarah loses her keys and declares herself homeless and learns what it is like to live on the streets. In "Kangamangus," Sarah meets the guy who invented the word "Booya" and decides to come up with her own new word. She gets a little irked though when Brian inadvertently invents a new phrase that catches on a lot faster than Sarah's.
The season wraps up with Jay and Laura getting engaged and Sarah declaring an engagement of her own to her dog, Doug, but there are several other good episodes scattered around. One of those is when Sarah starts thinking she sees Osama Bin Laden everywhere and keeps trying to run him over.
This volume's special features include three rather odd animated webisodes. One is a commercial for Fantastimart, another is a Steve and Brian adventure where they are abducted by aliens. The last one has an animated Sarah finding a talking purse that will grant her any wish she wants. Needless to say, that's not a very pretty sight. The other special features include an hour or so of commercials, behind the scenes interviews, discussions about Season Two being split in half, and Steve's cheesy shorts (as featured in "Mongolian Beef") and the "Making New Friends" song. Most of this stuff will only be appealing to real fans of the show, but there are a couple of segments that are amusing anyway.
I'm not sure if I've become more tolerant, or if the show has actually lessened in offensiveness (though I suspect the latter), but these 10 episodes found in Season Two, Volume Two seem like they can be accepted by a broader audience than most of the show's prior episodes. Because of that, if you have a slight interest in The Sarah Silverman Program, but found it too much to handle, this DVD set might be more of a fit than the last two, and thanks to the disconnected nature of the show, you wouldn't be missing much by coming in this late in the game.
