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“Cheer Up, Sleepy Gene” Bob’s Burgers S8 E13

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Bob’s Burgers Season 8 Episode 13 Cheer Up, Sleepy Gene Grade: C+ A pretty low-key Bob’s Burgers gives Gene a chance to demonstrate how he’s grown up a little and also how much of a momma’s boy he remains by pitting him against an ID-ier version of himself in the form of Alex. A household obsessed with healthy eating that secretly binge eats is a sitcom staple, and even though the show didn’t go for the pat confrontation at the end, it was still a little by-the-numbers. Bob and Linda’s b-plot wasn’t setting the world on fire either, with the … Continue reading “Cheer Up, Sleepy Gene” Bob’s Burgers S8 E13

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“Death by Dinner Party” American Dad! S15 E8

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American Dad! Season 15 Episode 8 Death by Dinner Party Grade: B+ Theme episodes are usually American Dad!’s strong point, and tonight was no exception. The Colonel (of the ‘yup, been here this whole time’ variety) was an inspired touch. I saw the whole thing being to teach Roger a lesson coming a mile away, but it was still entertaining, especially as the show killed off folks that it could conceivably part with for good in order to build up the stakes. American Dad! can mostly coast off of knowing just the right note to hit with each of its … Continue reading “Death by Dinner Party” American Dad! S15 E8

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“Sleeping with the Frenemy” Bob’s Burgers S8 E11

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Bob’s Burgers Season 8 Episode 11 Sleeping with the Frenemy Grade: A Tammy is awful. The absolute worst. Giving her and the Belchers a study in close contrasts left me wondering how long the show would take to bother to give her her redeaming quality. But having the whole thing being about Tina getting a boyfriend and Tammy ‘earning her badge’ was a stroke of genius, as if gives Tina a great ‘growing up’ moment where she symbolically decides which she wants more as a question of identity. By Tammy getting forcibly integrated into the Belcher Borg, she helps prove … Continue reading “Sleeping with the Frenemy” Bob’s Burgers S8 E11

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“(You Gotta) Strike for Your Right” American Dad! S15 E6

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American Dad! Season 15 Episode 6 The Mural of the Story Grade: B- A Breaking Bad reverse-watch leads to a scavenger hunt while Haley fights the CIA in a series of near-miss jokes and sub-plots that *almost* but not quite, turn into something more entertaining. The ‘reversos’ sub-plot should probably have been more fun than it was, although the payoff of $100 and the embalmed corpse of Vince Gilligan were an episode highlight. Weird, wall-climbing meat aside, so was the man-eating wolverine bit in Stan and Haley’s subplot. The episode MVP, though, was probably Bullock Home Alone-ing Stan, even if it … Continue reading “(You Gotta) Strike for Your Right” American Dad! S15 E6

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“The Mural of the Story” American Dad! S15 E5

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American Dad! Season 15 Episode 5 The Mural of the Story Grade: D A largely laugh-free American Dad! split its time between Roger’s Whiplash clown parody and Stan’s raging narcissism in an inexplicable low. Nothing was really working tonight, with plenty of set up and exposition, but very little pay off. I’m struggling, in fact, to even damn with faint praise. The clown stuff… was ok. Roger coming back as Pennywise and his drain monologue brought a smile to my face. But then there was Stan’s mural obsession, which was as arbitrary and callous and ultimately meaningless as anything he … Continue reading “The Mural of the Story” American Dad! S15 E5

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