Written by Michael Panes
Synopsis:
After receiving one too many rejections for his cartoon submissions, Andy gives up and agrees to Ron’s offer to become the assistant manager at Waterbed World. Back at his apartment, Stogie begins devouring the couch, since Andy has had no money for dog food lately, and it’s been flavoured by Jim’s constant food spillage.
Andy slowly degenerates into a sordid lifestyle, dating a stripper and convincing Ron to buy the local strip bar when it closes. While at the bank to get a loan, Andy is about to sign the application when he sees a security guard reading and laughing at a cartoon he drew, published in the free newspaper, the Weekly Freebie, thanks to Kevin’s submission of Andy’s cartoon. Encouraged by this, Andy decides to go back to cartooning.
Review:
While it had some funny scenes and some good lines, there just wasn’t anything really laugh-out-loud funny in this episode. It relied a lot on Ron’s heavily-accented yelling to get laughs, and while Ron is funny I feel they may have relied on him too much. To me, hearing him yell is funny only in doses at appropriate times. And while I don’t meant to sound like an old man, the barrage of sexual jokes was a bit much. Some of them were funny but others were kind of shock humour.
The subplot with Stogie, wasn’t really much of a subplot. It was amusing enough but it really wasn’t telling much of a story other than the early revelation as to why Stogie was eating the couch. It was really more of a series of gags (albeit amusing gags) relating to Stogie’s eating of the couch, that took place between acts of the main plot.
3 1/2 out of 5
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