7.0/10. Pretty fun as musical episodes go. Despite the presence of Jack Black, none of the tunes were particularly catchy, though they had an amusing-if-disposable verve to them. The best song of the episode was the final "higher" bit. The parody of anti-drug PSA's via raisins was absurd enough to fit the tone of the show, and while fairly lazy, the lapse into psychadelia and exaggeratedly scary pusher characters was visually entertaining if nothing else.
Gandhi's drug-induced quest felt a little too similar to South Park's Lemmiwinks episode (and come to think of it, the resolution of this episode is right out of South Park's Chinpokomon episode to boot) but it still had some entertaining moments, especially his reluctance to sleep with the anthropomorphized donky-dragonfly woman. While a little mean, that last scene wrung the humor from the down-to-earth awkwardness in the midst of all the fantasy elements.
And the C-story, about Scudworth trying to use the PTA as a jumping off point for another of his megomaniacal schemes had some nice comedic juice to it as well. His hilarious misunderstandings for how things at a school are supposed to work are a consistently funny part of the show.
Overall, not the best episode, but a fair amount of good stuff there.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-10-30T18:09:51Z
7.0/10. Pretty fun as musical episodes go. Despite the presence of Jack Black, none of the tunes were particularly catchy, though they had an amusing-if-disposable verve to them. The best song of the episode was the final "higher" bit. The parody of anti-drug PSA's via raisins was absurd enough to fit the tone of the show, and while fairly lazy, the lapse into psychadelia and exaggeratedly scary pusher characters was visually entertaining if nothing else.
Gandhi's drug-induced quest felt a little too similar to South Park's Lemmiwinks episode (and come to think of it, the resolution of this episode is right out of South Park's Chinpokomon episode to boot) but it still had some entertaining moments, especially his reluctance to sleep with the anthropomorphized donky-dragonfly woman. While a little mean, that last scene wrung the humor from the down-to-earth awkwardness in the midst of all the fantasy elements.
And the C-story, about Scudworth trying to use the PTA as a jumping off point for another of his megomaniacal schemes had some nice comedic juice to it as well. His hilarious misunderstandings for how things at a school are supposed to work are a consistently funny part of the show.
Overall, not the best episode, but a fair amount of good stuff there.