[6.7/10] I’ll be honest. I don’t really know what to do with this one. There’s some good lines and some pleasant ridiculousness here and there. And as always, I appreciate the clockwork setups of the sneakers, the racing, and the player piano literally colliding with one another at the end.
But as always, there’s a lot of broad and dumb humor, and a lot of stuff that’s supposed to come off as charmingly transgressive that just makes everyone and everything seem awkward and terrible. This show isn’t exactly equipped to handle people with disabilities, and having the DeRon character sexually harass the women he comes in contact with doesn't help.
Peter having a rivalry with DeRon is amusing in principle, but leads to plenty of crap in practice. Kevin and Jenny’s debate over the piano is amusing, albeit retrograde, and the setup with the piano mover is a dud that goes nowhere. A dog that can smell when people have had sex and bark accordingly is a corny setup, and Ruxin trying to check whether his co-worker is sleeping her way to the top, only for Taco’s dog to start humping his client’s dog, replete with a scuffle with a blind man, is more “more juvenile Home Improvement” humor.
Overall, there’s some laughs here, and some structural cleverness, so it’s not a total write-off, but there’s also a lot of dumb, lowest common denominator gags or POVs on display that weaken it.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2019-01-24T21:02:37Z
[6.7/10] I’ll be honest. I don’t really know what to do with this one. There’s some good lines and some pleasant ridiculousness here and there. And as always, I appreciate the clockwork setups of the sneakers, the racing, and the player piano literally colliding with one another at the end.
But as always, there’s a lot of broad and dumb humor, and a lot of stuff that’s supposed to come off as charmingly transgressive that just makes everyone and everything seem awkward and terrible. This show isn’t exactly equipped to handle people with disabilities, and having the DeRon character sexually harass the women he comes in contact with doesn't help.
Peter having a rivalry with DeRon is amusing in principle, but leads to plenty of crap in practice. Kevin and Jenny’s debate over the piano is amusing, albeit retrograde, and the setup with the piano mover is a dud that goes nowhere. A dog that can smell when people have had sex and bark accordingly is a corny setup, and Ruxin trying to check whether his co-worker is sleeping her way to the top, only for Taco’s dog to start humping his client’s dog, replete with a scuffle with a blind man, is more “more juvenile Home Improvement” humor.
Overall, there’s some laughs here, and some structural cleverness, so it’s not a total write-off, but there’s also a lot of dumb, lowest common denominator gags or POVs on display that weaken it.