Not only did Osomatsu-san give us that rare nugget of new series anime during the Shougatsu break, but it was vintage stuff as well.  For an all-sextuplets (with a Soupçon of Totoko and the A.I.) episode especially, it was excellent.  And the pizza sketch was absolute genius in a meta sort of way.

• Starting with the A.I. is always good, and their continued fascination with “Sheeh!” is always entertaining.
• Totoko and her value is always good for a laugh, especially when she donned the schoolcatgirl outfit and skyrocketed to one million.  I quite enjoyed as well the A.I.’s examples to illustrate “less than zero” value.
• I can’t have been the only one shouting “Do it now!” right before Osomatsu and Karamatsu did.
• The real meat of the ep, though, was that stupendous pizza sketch.  So smart, so dry, so hilarious on so many levels.  Starting with the concept itself, “we’re not ordering pizza but hypothetically what if we did”.  Could there be a more Platonically ideal NEET pursuit than that?
• The brothers using the occasion to attack each others’ weak point was perfectly in-character.  Referring to Jyuushimstsu as “Girigiri” was on-point, but my favorite part of this sequence was the Karamatsu “Haitamatsu” bit.  Karamatsu is an interesting one – he really is the kindest soul among the brethren by a long shot, and it’s always fun to see him vent his spleen once in a while.
• The riff on the pronunciation of “pizza” and spaghetti changing to pasta was also perfectly on-point.  It’s true and funny in any language, but then you throw in the aspect of wasei-eigo and it becomes truly inspired.
• Finally, the thing between Osomatsu and Todomatsu with the whole “youngest” element.  Anyone who has siblings will feel this bit, even if they’re not part of sextuplets.  Osomatsu really is such a selfish DB…

In a sense, I think that second chapter is as “natural” as Osomatsu-san gets.  It comes as close as anything can to capturing the true essence of the premise.  Stuff like the wedding chapter (which got a callback here) is great and very real, but the serious edge makes it more of an exceptional thing – this is the NEET concept in its Platonic state.