Seeming to become a habit of sorts, this was a week of double feature episodes again. However, I was surprised this week when, for the first time, I wasn’t disappointed by the second bonus episode.
While shopping with Charlie, Dee runs into a former classmate who, like Dee, had a not so favorable nickname and reputation in high school. Dee was called the Aluminum Monster because of her back brace and Ingrid Nelson, her only pal, was called Fatty McGoo because…well…she was fat. The store just so happened to be owned by Ingrid, making her more successful than Dee. This, of course, infuriates Dee and so she formulates a plan to “take down a fatty.”
Naturally, all of the gang decides to get involved in this scheme. Charlie is enlisted to make the dresses because of his ability to “sew a good hem” (it’s a valuable skill set), Dennis designs the dress to pitch to Fatty McGoo, and Frank and Mac create a sweatshop out of the bar’s backroom.
Although this episode has some great moments from every character (Mac plays German war propaganda in the sweatshop and Charlie is trained like a dog), Dennis truly makes this episode stand out.
Dennis has always been my favorite character, but the “Fatty” episode just solidified it further. He lies to the gang about dress orders and then has to cover it up the whole episode. His scenes with Ingrid in her office trying to persuade her to buy his dress are outrageously funny, and he has a shirtless mirror monologue (that ends with him putting on women’s lipstick) that had me in stitches.
“The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation” was the second half in this hour-long episode and it did not let us down. Rather than one character shining, the whole group comes together to stop the new Korean restaurant from winning the annual Pub Crawl with their new micro beer. Oh yeah, and Dennis wears a badass black duster without a shirt.
There is a hilarious scene with Charlie and Dennis trying to break down a door marked “Private” (Charlie thinks it says Pirate), and a back-and-forth between Mac, Dee, and Frank about how Dee is talentless. We realize early on that this episode is IASIP at it’s finest.
The gang, as usual, pushes the limits of normal human decency. Charlie gets engaged to a Korean girl and enters her into a wet T-shirt contest (without knowing she is 12 years-old) and Dee sleeps with a Korean chef to get the micro brew recipe, which turns out being a letter in Korean about how she is a whore.
I always enjoy the gang’s questionable morals and typical manic ramblings but there were also some comical parodies. The owner of the Korean bar is a Kim Jong look-alike and there is an American Idol judging panel for the talent show that sneaks up on you and is spot-on. All in all these episodes were an hour-long laugh riot, and an IASIP double feature that finally satiated my thirst.
Stray Observations:
· “I’m gonna peak so hard that everybody in Philadelphia feels it.”
· One of Dee’s great one-liners in this episode, “Your breath smells like an old lady fart passing through an onion.”
· Dennis proclaims that winners don’t listen to words like: no, don’t or stop.
· Dee catches Charlie “enjoying” Dennis’ designs vigorously.
· “The only crime being committed is the crime of ugliness, and sadly, you cannot press charges for that.”
· Dee shows off her sub-par Christopher Walken and Rosie Perez impressions.
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