[8.3/10] I do love a good heist story, and this one is almost clockwork. The script here is fantastic, setting up Louise’s admiration for the dune buggy at the local Family Funtime, Mr. Fischoeder’s prize economics-based grief with the place, and the multi-faceted scheme to take the place for all the tickets its worth.
There’s a lot of good quick-hit gags to be had from assembling the Wagstaff crew to master a bunch of old carnival games. Each of the kids works well when used for those short gags and one-liners, and Mr. Fischoeder’s reactions to them are priceless. The show has a nice sense of how to setup and subvert the big heist, and all the twists and turns are really well done. Having a double- and then triple-cross twist add up is hard, but the show nicely sets up both Mr. Fischoeder’s treachery and how Louise discovers it and exploits what she’s been caught to get him back, and the results are sparkling.
I was less on board with the B-plot where Bob and Linda try to coax a chicken gifted to them by Teddy to lay eggs. There’s some half-decent jokes there, but the whole thing is barely a plot, and the humor isn’t strong enough to make up for that, though I did like how things lined up in the end.
Overall, a forgettable B-story is the only weakspot here when Bob’s goes for a heist vibe in an elementary school guise and makes it clever and funny.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-10-29T22:45:39Z
[8.3/10] I do love a good heist story, and this one is almost clockwork. The script here is fantastic, setting up Louise’s admiration for the dune buggy at the local Family Funtime, Mr. Fischoeder’s prize economics-based grief with the place, and the multi-faceted scheme to take the place for all the tickets its worth.
There’s a lot of good quick-hit gags to be had from assembling the Wagstaff crew to master a bunch of old carnival games. Each of the kids works well when used for those short gags and one-liners, and Mr. Fischoeder’s reactions to them are priceless. The show has a nice sense of how to setup and subvert the big heist, and all the twists and turns are really well done. Having a double- and then triple-cross twist add up is hard, but the show nicely sets up both Mr. Fischoeder’s treachery and how Louise discovers it and exploits what she’s been caught to get him back, and the results are sparkling.
I was less on board with the B-plot where Bob and Linda try to coax a chicken gifted to them by Teddy to lay eggs. There’s some half-decent jokes there, but the whole thing is barely a plot, and the humor isn’t strong enough to make up for that, though I did like how things lined up in the end.
Overall, a forgettable B-story is the only weakspot here when Bob’s goes for a heist vibe in an elementary school guise and makes it clever and funny.