I kind of feel like it makes more sense now, or maybe just I'm older now. The things it does with playing with the medium, seems more understandable now that it's sort of established "this is what 80s tv was really doing" and it wasn't just "why is this show weird?"

My absolute favorite thing about the show, and I can't explain why, is how food is constantly being ordered and never eaten. It's just the right weirdness that expresses... something? in the right way? (I did say I couldn't explain it.)