7.4/10. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but there are so many of these episode where I'm "meh-ing" along through most of it, and then the show just kind of knocks it out of the park at the end. The reveal that there is no Spanakopita, the "holiday" just developed out of the native smugglers feeling sorry for Rusty after an accidental kidnapping, and that Rusty returned to it years later as a coping mechanism is a great one. There's a major theme in this episode, that in some way happiness is self-justifying, even if it's premised on a mostly harmless lie, especially if it's the one bit of happiness Rusty seems to get in this world. Sure, he may be fooling himself, and even paying dearly for the privilege, but people go to a lot more effort to be happy. Brock's admonition not to dig too deep and Hatred's learning the real secret is heartbreaking and hilarious, and gives the episode enough depth to make it interesting beyond the island-hopping hijinx.
The competition between St. Cloud and Billy Quizboy wasn't as fun for me this time around. (Though I realized that he sounds like Sandy from the Fashion Club on Daria!) It does feel true to those old hannah barbera cartoons where the villain wins some competition by cheating, but I just got tired of it. Still, Billy's greek mythology dream was amusing, and the fact that he and White were saved by St. Cloud's manservant because of the albino's code was an appropriately absurd beat. All-in-all, a solid episode.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-08-24T22:36:53Z
7.4/10. I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but there are so many of these episode where I'm "meh-ing" along through most of it, and then the show just kind of knocks it out of the park at the end. The reveal that there is no Spanakopita, the "holiday" just developed out of the native smugglers feeling sorry for Rusty after an accidental kidnapping, and that Rusty returned to it years later as a coping mechanism is a great one. There's a major theme in this episode, that in some way happiness is self-justifying, even if it's premised on a mostly harmless lie, especially if it's the one bit of happiness Rusty seems to get in this world. Sure, he may be fooling himself, and even paying dearly for the privilege, but people go to a lot more effort to be happy. Brock's admonition not to dig too deep and Hatred's learning the real secret is heartbreaking and hilarious, and gives the episode enough depth to make it interesting beyond the island-hopping hijinx.
The competition between St. Cloud and Billy Quizboy wasn't as fun for me this time around. (Though I realized that he sounds like Sandy from the Fashion Club on Daria!) It does feel true to those old hannah barbera cartoons where the villain wins some competition by cheating, but I just got tired of it. Still, Billy's greek mythology dream was amusing, and the fact that he and White were saved by St. Cloud's manservant because of the albino's code was an appropriately absurd beat. All-in-all, a solid episode.