[7.2/10] This was an exercise in diminishing returns. I enjoy a good “three stories” episode, but this one started off with a bang and then slowly slid from there.
That said, the conceit is a good one. Teddy is reluctant to fix the Belcher’s walk-in light because of a short in a gazebo he fixed. Bob wants to hire a licensed and bonded electrician. But if he does that, there won’t be enough money for the kids to go to a trampoline-based theme park, so they try to puff Teddy up with imaginary stories about his exploits in the hopes he’ll be an inexpensive alternative who’ll allow them their bouncy fun.
Louise’s post-apocalyptic Waterworld/Fury Road parody was the clear winner. The show’s animators got the most creative mileage out of reimagining the show’s characters and settings for a grungy sea-bound world. Regular Sized Rudy as the human macguffin was a fun conceit, and the show came up with a number of fun water-logged gags.
Tina’s story about Teddy helping them rescue Boys 4 Now in a blimp-itized version of the restaurant was solid enough. There wasn’t as much imaginative fun with the Belchers rescuing the boy band from Mt. Everest, but it derived a lot of laughs from Tina’s storytelling quirks and from the usual teeny bopper-based humor.
The weakest by far was Gene’s story. I loved Power Rangers as a kid, and Gene’s penchant for flatulence is well-documented, but a “pizzilla vs. mecha” fart off was, if you’ll pardon the expression, weak sauce. (Though I’ll admit that I enjoyed the design of the mechanized, giant robot version of the restaurant.)
Overall, there were enough good laughs in the side comments and bits of wordplay to make this one enjoyable, and I appreciate that we got land, air, and sea versions of the restaurant through the kids’ stories, but the quality of the actual stories diminished as the episode went on.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2020-05-14T00:57:39Z
[7.2/10] This was an exercise in diminishing returns. I enjoy a good “three stories” episode, but this one started off with a bang and then slowly slid from there.
That said, the conceit is a good one. Teddy is reluctant to fix the Belcher’s walk-in light because of a short in a gazebo he fixed. Bob wants to hire a licensed and bonded electrician. But if he does that, there won’t be enough money for the kids to go to a trampoline-based theme park, so they try to puff Teddy up with imaginary stories about his exploits in the hopes he’ll be an inexpensive alternative who’ll allow them their bouncy fun.
Louise’s post-apocalyptic Waterworld/Fury Road parody was the clear winner. The show’s animators got the most creative mileage out of reimagining the show’s characters and settings for a grungy sea-bound world. Regular Sized Rudy as the human macguffin was a fun conceit, and the show came up with a number of fun water-logged gags.
Tina’s story about Teddy helping them rescue Boys 4 Now in a blimp-itized version of the restaurant was solid enough. There wasn’t as much imaginative fun with the Belchers rescuing the boy band from Mt. Everest, but it derived a lot of laughs from Tina’s storytelling quirks and from the usual teeny bopper-based humor.
The weakest by far was Gene’s story. I loved Power Rangers as a kid, and Gene’s penchant for flatulence is well-documented, but a “pizzilla vs. mecha” fart off was, if you’ll pardon the expression, weak sauce. (Though I’ll admit that I enjoyed the design of the mechanized, giant robot version of the restaurant.)
Overall, there were enough good laughs in the side comments and bits of wordplay to make this one enjoyable, and I appreciate that we got land, air, and sea versions of the restaurant through the kids’ stories, but the quality of the actual stories diminished as the episode went on.