[5.6/10] I hate to compare shows, but considering how much The League seems to be drafting off of the general vibe and production style of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it’s hard to go on without noting how IASIP’s “Flowers for Charlie” riffs on the same idea and yet is a hundred times better at it than “Flowers for Taco.”
Still, there is a deconstructive glee to seeing Taco awoken from his stupor for just a little while. Him realizing that Taco Corp. is a joke, understanding why women should do better than him, and realizing that he has nothing in common with the people he hangs out with almost go so far as to break the show a little. Despite that, it’s the most (and arguably) only enjoyable part of the episode, with Jon Lajoie doing great work as Taco’s sharper, clearer, more put together self.
Of course, that effort is almost entirely wasted in an episode that instead chooses to focus on dog erections, pigeon crap, demonic undead birds, and kids saying “shitbag” as their first word. It’s beating a dead horse at this point, but time and again, The League thinks vulgarity in and of itself is funny, without bothering to find a clever angle on it like it spiritual cousins IASIP and South Park. If you’re willing to laugh at a dog getting a boner or birds shitting on people without needing any other context or angle on it, then boy, this is for you.
Suffice it to say every other storyline in the episode is a dud. Andre trying to avoid getting bird crap on him is a dumb, barely there storyline. Jenny trying to arouse Ruxin’s dog is ridiculous, and not in the fun way. Kevin fighting with the class cockatoo is the broadest of broad comedy and done in a chintzy fashion. The whole thing’s just the pits.
What’s worse is that they wrap cogent Taco up in it, to where he’s positing idiotic theories about the conversation of boner energy or god knows what else, and the show takes up tons and tons of time with it. And that’s before the contrived conspiracy to re-pot-ify Taco that, somehow, works instantly.
Overall, despite other shows doing it better, The League gets some good comic mileage out of the “Taco wakes up” premise, but it suffers from all of the utter crap, literal and figurative, that surrounds it.
Shout by TheLazyReviewerBlockedParent2023-12-04T09:49:06Z
One of the better episodes of this pretty poor season and potentially Taco's best episode.