Comedy

Bob’s Burgers – Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral

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Bob's Burgers - Fight at the Not Okay Chore-ral

Bob’s Burgers begins its Fourteenth Season with a showdown between Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) and the kids who refuse their parents’ request to do chores. After emotions escalate after dinner (at one point Linda cancels Christmas!), the parents bring in their children into the bedroom for a bedtime story set in the Old West which only continues the conflict between Gene (Eugene Mirman), Tina (Dan Mintz), Louise (Kristen Schaal) and their parents before their impasse eventually works itself out.

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Barbie

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  • Title: Barbie
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It’s a Barbie world. Writer/director Greta Gerwig brings Mattel’s famous doll to life in this comedy that lovingly recreates, and then plays with, the world of Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) who discovers her effect on the real world is quite different than she believes. Robbie is perfect for the role on the rollercoaster of the doll’s existential crisis and journey to self-discovery.

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Futurama – How the West Was 1010001

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“How the West Was 1010001” is one of those one-joke episodes, this one featured around the group mining for Bitcoin in Futurama‘s version of the Old West (despite that making absolutely no sense). While I’m all for the show taking some cheap shots at Bitcoin, there’s not much else here. The episode is notable for the Mexican standoff we get near the end between several characters in the middle of main street and some usual goofiness by the characters in a different setting than normal, this time in the obligatory cowboy hats.

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Guilty Pleasure – One Crazy Summer

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  • Title: One Crazy Summer
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to a movie that feels every bit the 80s comedy that it is. One Crazy Summer casts John Cusack as an aspiring artist who heads off for a summer vacation to Nantucket with his high school best friend George (Joel Murray) after their graduation. There the artist, who knows nothing of love, will catch the eye of a young rocker (Demi Moore) headed home to help keep her father’s estate from falling into the clutches of a greedy land tycoon (Mark Metcalf), and the bombshell girlfriend (Kimberly Foster) of the local douchebag (Matt Mulhern), who, of course, is also the tycoon’s son.

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Futurama – Children of a Lesser Bog

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“Children of a Lesser Bog” offers one of those episodes of Futurama more memorable for specific moments that an overall story. The episode is the follow-up to the Fourth Season episode involving involving Kif (Maurice LaMarche) giving birth. Now, 20 years later, he and Amy (Lauren Tom) head into the swamps of his homeworld to collect his children (those that aren’t massacred in the episode’s most gruesome joke). With the children developing in different parts of the swamp the two parents end up with a baby, a teenager, and middle in-between child. The episode plays on the usual tropes of early parenthood and on Leela‘s (Katey Sagal) role as the biological mother of the children who are drawn to her. It’s not one of most memorable episodes of the series, but it does have a nice message about non-biological parenting while giving us a minimum amount of Zapp Brannigan (Billy West) zaniness as well.

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