Michael & Michael Have Issues: "Biederman's Birthday"

Tonight's rendition was a lot stronger than last week's (not to say "Greg The Intern" wasn't strong), particularly because they shaved down the tiny arguments and got right to the good stuff: the large-scale bickering between Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. The boys still broke things up with a few live segments and taped sketches—as per the show-within-a-show concept. And while I'm beginning to see this show's similarities to Flight Of The Conchords, those aforementioned segments are feeling like the songs on FOTC. They're nice and all—some kick ass—but often they feel forced and distracting.
But much like FOTC, they're kept to a minimum, and instead we see plenty of enjoyable Michael shenanigans. It's Biederman's birthday, and the Michaels decide to get him a bag of weed to calm his nerves. So they ask the staffers where to score some, and discover the park's "one big skunk store" (according to a new character, played by the awesome New York stand-up Kumail Nanjiani, formerly of Chicago). At the park, Showalter convinces Black to ask a mustachioed gentleman for the weed—by the rule of reverse psychology, clearly this man is not an undercover cop, precisely because he looks like one; and Showalter can't do it, because he has "cop face". That man, who for a second I thought was Tom Lennon, is, in fact, a cop, and Black is arrested, with Showalter watching guiltily from the side.