Seriously, what is with this series and basking in homophobia, to the point where this episode climactically ends with Dante being forced to falsely claim that he's gay to prevent a bomb from dropping on the town, which is played as a big act of public humiliation that people either incorrectly do their best to cheer on, or those in the know have a big laugh at his expense, and even his parents burst into tears. This is beyond doubling down at this point. It feels like a button they're specifically fixated on, and I'm very trepidatious at rediscovering where things go from here.
Otherwise, it's largely a blast of an episode, doing an effective spoof of Outbreak when Randal mixes up a local monkey for sale with the effects caused by his neglect of rotten burritos, and the government is called in for a full quarantine. The celebrity cameos are wonderful, with even that bastard James Woods sounding like he's having a fun time, plus Dana Gould, Mike McShane, Al Franken, and even Bryan Cranston! Not to mention our second appearance of Gilbert Gottfried, this time as a chipper yet down on his luck Patrick Swayze. The escalation of the public disaster is well played, and I like the return of Leonardo Leonardo, especially how easily he's conned into hording and consuming the rotten burritos. His assistant Mr Plug also gets some great gags revealing he's really a killer robot. Less successful is the entire gag of Jay & Silent Bob buying a monkey just so they can teach it how to smoke, which never feels like it goes anywhere interesting, and the end gag of Jay & Silent Bob beating the crap out of Charles Barkley, which is just feeling too randomly mean at this point. And I'm on the fence about their satire of Lando, a new "black friend" added to the show to increase diversity, even as it's just for walk on moments or to be interrupted.
Review by noelctBlockedParentSpoilers2023-06-21T13:04:50Z
Seriously, what is with this series and basking in homophobia, to the point where this episode climactically ends with Dante being forced to falsely claim that he's gay to prevent a bomb from dropping on the town, which is played as a big act of public humiliation that people either incorrectly do their best to cheer on, or those in the know have a big laugh at his expense, and even his parents burst into tears. This is beyond doubling down at this point. It feels like a button they're specifically fixated on, and I'm very trepidatious at rediscovering where things go from here.
Otherwise, it's largely a blast of an episode, doing an effective spoof of Outbreak when Randal mixes up a local monkey for sale with the effects caused by his neglect of rotten burritos, and the government is called in for a full quarantine. The celebrity cameos are wonderful, with even that bastard James Woods sounding like he's having a fun time, plus Dana Gould, Mike McShane, Al Franken, and even Bryan Cranston! Not to mention our second appearance of Gilbert Gottfried, this time as a chipper yet down on his luck Patrick Swayze. The escalation of the public disaster is well played, and I like the return of Leonardo Leonardo, especially how easily he's conned into hording and consuming the rotten burritos. His assistant Mr Plug also gets some great gags revealing he's really a killer robot. Less successful is the entire gag of Jay & Silent Bob buying a monkey just so they can teach it how to smoke, which never feels like it goes anywhere interesting, and the end gag of Jay & Silent Bob beating the crap out of Charles Barkley, which is just feeling too randomly mean at this point. And I'm on the fence about their satire of Lando, a new "black friend" added to the show to increase diversity, even as it's just for walk on moments or to be interrupted.