It’s official. Better Off Ted is comedy gold. Sharper than Scrubs in its prime, sophisticated with out being snooty and so quick with the quotables you’d think it was written by Sue Sylvester, the second-year sitcom has been saving Tuesday nights for anyone looking for a laugh and only finding Idol or shows with NCIS in their title.

While a bulk of the praise goes to Portia de Rossi for her corporate executrix Veronica (“the company feels that if we ease up because someone dies, it will only encourage other people to die”), the entire cast deserves a round of applause. Including last week’s guest star Eddie McClintock (Warehouse 13), who fit in perfectly with the ensemble as Ted’s salesman brother. Unlike other shows that would saddle the sad-sack sibling with a “I just want to make you proud” monologue complete with a heartfelt background score and a voice-over, Ted—and McClintock—instead gave a us a guy who was well-intentioned and twisted enough to sell us on a resolution involving a stolen corpse, a blackmail plot, and more Phil and Lem than we could have ever hoped for.

Now we just need to hope that ABC sees that they have a real treasure on their hands and finds a way to keep it around.