From the first episode, I thought "Brickleberry" might have a chance in the cartoon comedy business. But, I’m beginning to doubt that after last night’s episode.
While the first episode wasn’t the funniest thing in the world, it did entertain me with its ridiculousness.
The show didn’t really seem to have direction. Instead of focusing on one main subject to be offensive about, it tried to focus on as many offensive topics as possible. It’s funny to an extent, but as a result, they lose any chance of a plot.
This second episode was no exception, and it didn’t have the over the top ridiculousness to hold it together. Well, they tried to, but this episode’s ridiculousness was just gross, and in most cases kind of fell flat.
The main plot of this episode, was Steve dying from a combination of cancer, syphilis and AIDs (cana-syphil-aids) he contracted from a hooker, being told he only has two weeks to live, and him attempting to do good deeds to get into heaven.
I assumed religion was a topic coming up soon, and I was right.
But, besides this plot were many different sub-plots: Denzel’s disgusting love affair/ threeway with old women, Malloy’s desire to get revenge and murder a couple of bully raccoons, Woody’s desire to find a replacement ranger for Steve, and Ethel’s work with a group of blind camper kids (which was the funniest part of the episode — watching the blind kids run around like lemmings).
Within all of these sub-plots were jokes across a variety of offensive subjects and it pretty much diluted any story the show has. Sure, some jokes and situations were funny, but not funny enough to carry the show for too much longer.
For some reason, I keep imagining the old Comedy Central show, "Shorties Watching Shorties," where they made cartoons go with the audio from comedians’ stand up.
In other words, "Brickleberry" acts more like a depiction of stand up performances from comedians like Daniel Tosh than being it’s own independent show.
"Brickleberry needs to find it’s own style, instead of trying to combine the style of every offensive comedian together at one time if it wants to succeed.
"Brickleberry" airs Tuesday nights at 10:30 p.m. on Comedy Central.
