[8.6/10] Pretty damn good episode! The opening skit about Mr. Show bloopers had a nice comic escalation of Bob and David’s clips getting more and more vindictive and implausible, and the dark humor of the clip with 4 year old Bob was nuts but amusing. The transition with David’s “Emotion Lotion” song unexpectedly becoming a hit was a great laugh, and I loved the recurring motif of Dino Stamatopoulos telling David he has “the good.”
The bit with Bob pretending to phone sex as “Peppermint” wasn’t my favorite bit at first, as it felt like the show going blue just for the sake of going blue, but as usual, the skit found other, weird places to go with Bob’s coworkers actually being into it, him declaring that he’s more woman than his boss, and the follow-up ad that imagines his services were so successful that he could start his own line. It’s a lame premise that works because of where the show takes it.
But my favorite sketch in the whole damn episode was “Audition.” The absurdity of a guy doing an audition with a piece where his character is going on an audition is some high concept brilliance. And Bob and Dino’s incredulous reactions each time they try to respond to David’s increasingly and oddly specific monologue were the gift that kept on giving. Really clever and hilarious stuff.
The “dad and you” interstitial didn’t do too much for me, but I did get some solid laughs out of the “Pre-Natal Pageant” segment, and it’s nice spoof of kids beauty pageants. Having a fetal beauty pageant nicely captures the ridiculousness and ickiness of hosting these beauty paganets for kids by taking the practice to its absurd extreme, and there’s even some solid commentary about the parents of these kids going broke to try to do this while the folks selling them treatments and makeovers and such get rich.
The “Burgundy Loaf” segment went on a little long for my tastes, and didn’t really stretch or evolve the central joke, but I did enjoy the premise of a restaurant so fancy that it won’t let you do anything, even go to the bathroom, in the normal way. Bob’s french maitre’d character was a particular treat.
The last bit with John Ennis’s British chimney/bathroom sweep handing out poo boxes was nicely absurd as well, and I love how it connected both to him saying he should try a british accent in an earlier sketch, and how Bob getting the box tied back to the spit take blooper from the top of the show.
Overall, some really clever, well-linked, and amusing sketches in this one!
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-07-28T17:58:55Z
[8.6/10] Pretty damn good episode! The opening skit about Mr. Show bloopers had a nice comic escalation of Bob and David’s clips getting more and more vindictive and implausible, and the dark humor of the clip with 4 year old Bob was nuts but amusing. The transition with David’s “Emotion Lotion” song unexpectedly becoming a hit was a great laugh, and I loved the recurring motif of Dino Stamatopoulos telling David he has “the good.”
The bit with Bob pretending to phone sex as “Peppermint” wasn’t my favorite bit at first, as it felt like the show going blue just for the sake of going blue, but as usual, the skit found other, weird places to go with Bob’s coworkers actually being into it, him declaring that he’s more woman than his boss, and the follow-up ad that imagines his services were so successful that he could start his own line. It’s a lame premise that works because of where the show takes it.
But my favorite sketch in the whole damn episode was “Audition.” The absurdity of a guy doing an audition with a piece where his character is going on an audition is some high concept brilliance. And Bob and Dino’s incredulous reactions each time they try to respond to David’s increasingly and oddly specific monologue were the gift that kept on giving. Really clever and hilarious stuff.
The “dad and you” interstitial didn’t do too much for me, but I did get some solid laughs out of the “Pre-Natal Pageant” segment, and it’s nice spoof of kids beauty pageants. Having a fetal beauty pageant nicely captures the ridiculousness and ickiness of hosting these beauty paganets for kids by taking the practice to its absurd extreme, and there’s even some solid commentary about the parents of these kids going broke to try to do this while the folks selling them treatments and makeovers and such get rich.
The “Burgundy Loaf” segment went on a little long for my tastes, and didn’t really stretch or evolve the central joke, but I did enjoy the premise of a restaurant so fancy that it won’t let you do anything, even go to the bathroom, in the normal way. Bob’s french maitre’d character was a particular treat.
The last bit with John Ennis’s British chimney/bathroom sweep handing out poo boxes was nicely absurd as well, and I love how it connected both to him saying he should try a british accent in an earlier sketch, and how Bob getting the box tied back to the spit take blooper from the top of the show.
Overall, some really clever, well-linked, and amusing sketches in this one!