For the past few weeks, I've been taping Smallville, and at the end, I would get the first two or so minutes of Angel, and would be highly entertained by them. So this week, I decided to set my VCR for an extra hour and watch Angel as well.
I didn't understand a damn thing, initially, but was able to pick up fairly quickly what was going on, subplots, etc. I was very impressed, and even laughed out loud at certain places.
I'll be watching from now on.
I also noticed that mad genius Ben Edlund is a Supervising Producer, and figured that's where it came from.