I've said this before but I felt the beginning of season 3 was a mess. Reused jokes, lack of screentime for Brad, Denise, and Paul, too much of Alan (not neccessarily a bad thing but still). They sort of made up for it later but not enough to save it. However I think this year has been so much better. The new characters are quirky and interesting, Alan isn't doing every case, and it seems to have found it's humor again. My only problem is Denny is getting arrested too much but that's relatively a minor problem. Thumbs up for me.