9.2/10. Really enjoyed this one. As an Archer fan, it was a lot of fun to see Chris Parnell as the self-assured success and H. Jon Benjamin as the put-upon worker for once. Mostly, I appreciated the layers to this one. I liked that the conflict wasn't just two people with different ideas, it was that Bob had an idea for the ethos of his restaurant being the food, and the kind of success that involves people liking his restaurant for any other reason is success he doesn't want. It's an interesting decision for him -- enjoy greater financial success or to thine own self be true, and the fact that it brought him closer to his best (or per Linda, only) friend, whose feelings he didn't want to hurt and whose generosity he didn't want to spurn or insult was perfect.
In the end, there was the further layer that Bob thought Warren was "the guy," and Warren thought Bob was "the guy," and each was trying to chase what the other had in this episode. Bob wanted Warren's financial success and Warren wanted to be a part of the family connection the Belchers have. It's a little easy, but H. Jon Benjamin and Chris Parnell have such an easy rapport that it makes the characters, their chummy dynamic, and their conflict very believable.
Plus, there are incredible little grace notes of comedy like Teddy loving the aloha pineapple, or Tina hoping that she marries a cute boy and goes to live on a horse farm, or Jimmy Pesto appreciating Bob's new tiki vibe as the last straw. The Gene-land B-story was mostly fluff, while still being enjoyable enough, but the Bob-Warren business is where the meat of the episode was, and made it a great one.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-05-25T20:09:00Z
9.2/10. Really enjoyed this one. As an Archer fan, it was a lot of fun to see Chris Parnell as the self-assured success and H. Jon Benjamin as the put-upon worker for once. Mostly, I appreciated the layers to this one. I liked that the conflict wasn't just two people with different ideas, it was that Bob had an idea for the ethos of his restaurant being the food, and the kind of success that involves people liking his restaurant for any other reason is success he doesn't want. It's an interesting decision for him -- enjoy greater financial success or to thine own self be true, and the fact that it brought him closer to his best (or per Linda, only) friend, whose feelings he didn't want to hurt and whose generosity he didn't want to spurn or insult was perfect.
In the end, there was the further layer that Bob thought Warren was "the guy," and Warren thought Bob was "the guy," and each was trying to chase what the other had in this episode. Bob wanted Warren's financial success and Warren wanted to be a part of the family connection the Belchers have. It's a little easy, but H. Jon Benjamin and Chris Parnell have such an easy rapport that it makes the characters, their chummy dynamic, and their conflict very believable.
Plus, there are incredible little grace notes of comedy like Teddy loving the aloha pineapple, or Tina hoping that she marries a cute boy and goes to live on a horse farm, or Jimmy Pesto appreciating Bob's new tiki vibe as the last straw. The Gene-land B-story was mostly fluff, while still being enjoyable enough, but the Bob-Warren business is where the meat of the episode was, and made it a great one.