[5.0/10] This was a bit of a dud. It’s not like riffs on shows doing very special episodes for attention or ratings, or actors playing mentally disabled people to win awards is something of the past exactly, but most of the bits in the episode feel attuned to spoof the likes of Ellen Degeneres coming out of the closet, or Tom Hanks in Forest Gump that make the episode feel dated.
The ideas are solid. David coming out as bald is amusing, and they get some good mileage out of matching the verbiage of these sorts of “we’re going to tell you about our special episode” bits. The whole “ratings man is Santa being held up” skit was odd and not very funny, and the “Weather Hermaphrodite” was a pretty gross and tone deaf gag.
The “cock ring warehouse” skit was lazy humor save for the mascot. The one sketch I did get a kick out of was Odenkirk as a guy who gets inexplicably beaten up by his buddies when he tells them he’s getting married. It hit the right mix of absurdity and down-to-earth friend group stuff to get a laugh.
I wasn’t enamored with the return of Ronnie Dobbs, with the COPS routine being turned into a musical. The bit with Dobbs revealing his uncharacteristically lovely singing voice was a good laugh, but otherwise this was just an interminable sketch that, not-so-shockingly, couldn’t wring a good laugh out of domestic violence.
Lastly, the “Bob Lomanta” sketch was a passable Forest Gump parody, but never rose above that level. I did appreciate the “real Bob”’s laundry list of dramatic embellishments, but it was another long and mostly laughless skit.
Overall, a middling at best outing for the show that feels too tied to the time in which it was made to have the same impact today.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-07-17T16:35:23Z— updated 2018-07-26T20:09:33Z
[5.0/10] This was a bit of a dud. It’s not like riffs on shows doing very special episodes for attention or ratings, or actors playing mentally disabled people to win awards is something of the past exactly, but most of the bits in the episode feel attuned to spoof the likes of Ellen Degeneres coming out of the closet, or Tom Hanks in Forest Gump that make the episode feel dated.
The ideas are solid. David coming out as bald is amusing, and they get some good mileage out of matching the verbiage of these sorts of “we’re going to tell you about our special episode” bits. The whole “ratings man is Santa being held up” skit was odd and not very funny, and the “Weather Hermaphrodite” was a pretty gross and tone deaf gag.
The “cock ring warehouse” skit was lazy humor save for the mascot. The one sketch I did get a kick out of was Odenkirk as a guy who gets inexplicably beaten up by his buddies when he tells them he’s getting married. It hit the right mix of absurdity and down-to-earth friend group stuff to get a laugh.
I wasn’t enamored with the return of Ronnie Dobbs, with the COPS routine being turned into a musical. The bit with Dobbs revealing his uncharacteristically lovely singing voice was a good laugh, but otherwise this was just an interminable sketch that, not-so-shockingly, couldn’t wring a good laugh out of domestic violence.
Lastly, the “Bob Lomanta” sketch was a passable Forest Gump parody, but never rose above that level. I did appreciate the “real Bob”’s laundry list of dramatic embellishments, but it was another long and mostly laughless skit.
Overall, a middling at best outing for the show that feels too tied to the time in which it was made to have the same impact today.