In the end, they did get kind of serious with it but they didn't try to shed the comedic value that they cultivated from episode 1. Frankly I don't think they were trying to hard here since I believe their main goal was to be funny, thankfully they at the very least achieved that. To me, the main premise of the show was kinda dry, or in other words just lacked much in the way of substance.
It had the queer ability to make me laugh my ass off while at the same time annoy the hell out of me.
