I'll be honest - I didn't really enjoy 'Canning Randy' at all. There was virtually nothing that was funny, apart from Robin's disappointed '..crap' at being caught by the guys, and the advert for adult nappies itself which was both gross and hilarious.
I just find it hard to laugh at an episode which uses such a cheap gag as 'Warmpess' beer, a joke so obvious and awful it felt like torture when the joke was used repeatedly throughout the episode (and the terrible viral video that was cut from the show). Will Forte himself was given far too much screen time - the character of Randy was mildly funny as Barney's Rebound Bro back in the episode of the same name, but here he just didn't appeal to me at all. I'm not entirely sure what he was on the show to be promoting or whether he was simply a piece of stunt casting off of the Macgruber movie (though why that would happen I don't know).
And though I enjoyed Zoey in 'Architect of Destruction', nothing that happened with her and Ted rang true at all. Zoey magically showing up in the class and dragging all the students out to protest wasn't a very interesting storyline and there didn't seem to be any kind of payoff to make the awkwardness worthwhile. I can only imagine with the way they left things that Ted will have more showdowns with Zoey. If this is the way her storyline is gonna continue, I hope to GOD she's not the mother.
Elsewhere not even Barney, Marshall or Lily could really bring in the funny. Lily behaved so unteacher-like compared to how we've seen her behave before. It wasn't goofy like in other episodes where she's fallen asleep or something - she just came across as a bored babysitter. And though the Becky character was funny at first, the joke has worn off now and she's just irritating.
Just an all round disappointing episode. Shame.
What did everyone else think?
Disagree. It was a funny episode, one of the better ones in this season that pulled a lot of jokes from the shows mythos.
ReplyDeleteI may be biased though, with the Godfather reference, it don't think anything could have ruined that.
And Will Forte's character is hilarious.
Thumbs up. I really enjoyed the episode. I've laughed for like 20+ minutes. Also, awesome performance by Josh Radnor, whos getting better and better with every episode. I think it was one of the best episodes of this season.
ReplyDeleteThe show stopped kind of moving towards how ted meets the mother, like, ok crap with Barney, Robin, Marshall and Lily gotta give the characters some screen time, It just seems things were moving a lot faster back in the day (season 1, 2, 3) and from 4 onwards is like a massive detour, even the episodes that had no direct relation to how he meets his mother they were SO good you didnt care eg. The Pineapple Incident, Mary the Paralegal, Swarley etc. the show has lost its magic a bit, and you would think being 6 seasons into it we would know more, like all the time he is like "Kids this had something to do with it" and it didn't they had the whole Stella storyline and the only thing that was actually relevant to Teds Future is Tony getting Ted a Job
ReplyDeletethats my two cents
OH and also why does Bob Saget Narrate?
Because it's probably great money for half an hour's work, I imagine. :P
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