I think my favorite line was when Liv was medicated for her agoraphobia and floated/fell into the chair and Babineaux said, "Way to stick the landing." I just love casual throwaways like that. But, yeah, Ravi having fun with Liv "sucking it up" and the Trollock and all that were funny to me, too.
And, yeah, Trollock is where they crossed the line into Badtasteville - not the lingering shots of bloated corpses, decapitated corpses, corpses that have been speared on clothes hooks and had half their skull eaten off, and Rotten Brain Smoothies. No bad taste there.
(Seriously - I kind of like the demented-ness of this show but I did think they went a little heavy on the gross factor with this particular episode but something was in the air as (no specific spoiler) Gotham also went Grand Guignol this week.)
Excellent point on the pen. Maybe he just had it locked in his head that it was a "medicine cabinet" thing. But, yeah, that's a pretty weak spot. (He could also maybe be afraid he'd lose it in all the food wrappers, chip bags, and drink cans if he kept it with him but he could always have more than one. Keep it in his pocket. Etc. Yeah, weak spot.)
I'm not sure if I liked the "Major on the slab" gimmick or not - half funny, half gimmicky. But, yeah, while I figured last week he was damaged, I didn't think he was dead. For a moment, I thought, "Well, I guess he's dead after all" and, when he opened his eyes, I even had a moment of "When did he get scratched?"
Anyway - definitely leveled off for me but it's definitely my favorite new show. Still worried about it - the ratings actually went up a tick last week over the week before but fell 2 for this week's episode (never sure how much of that is random, how much is people not liking the episode before and not tuning in to the latest, and how much is people not liking that very episode and tuning out before it's over). But the CW is promo-ing it as a "new hit show" and, as of last week, was, in fact, doing better than the average CW show and was behind only Arrow and Flash. Every network does this for every show but you can't cancel a "new hit show", right?