Review: Animals “Rats”

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Spoilers Below

Rats

Mike and Phil are let it on a secret by Simon of a baby. Seeing dollar signs, Mike and Phil soon turn the baby into a business where they charge a fee to all of the other rats to check it out, but it’s Simon who assumes the role as business owner. Eventually, the baby proves to be boring…unless if you put him in a wrestling match. Simon cleans up in terms of money, but eventually, the baby is found by other humans and is saved. Pranks are cruel.

Bees

Two bees, Stan and Todd,  fight over a tulip that’s been claimed by one bee but is then claimed by another bee with a bigger “stinger”. The tulip (voiced by Kim Gordon) sings a song that sounds like it is being sung by an out-of-tune 53-year old singer, and then a dude shows up and takes the flower. That and a lot of starfucking on Jerry Seinfeld.

Our Take

I was under a bit of trepidation when it was announced that this week’s episode of Animals was going to be another round with the rats. As it stands, including this episode, 25% of all Animals aired up until this point has featured the rats as the main protagonists. Fortunately, Mike and Phil didn’t carry the episode, that goes to Thomas Middleditch’s “Simon”.

There were so many good parts about “Rats”, I don’t even know where to begin. From Phil constantly getting farted and shat on to the climax featuring the wrestling main event and all the things wrong that went on during that bit. I loved the idea of featuring Simon as a sort of a Tony Montano character even if it meant that Mike had to take a backseat in terms of importance to the episode. “Andy” voiced by Andy Dick was really good, too, and I wish we had a lot more of him, but overall light gripes, nothing too crazy, a solid episode.

“Bees” was alright, Gordon’s singing was like nails on a chalkboard that’s being dragged over train tracks and I’m pretty sure where we are at with the “Humans” portion of the episode is getting rather a little too reminiscent of V for Vendetta in terms of premise.

In any event, a MUCH improved episode whence compared to “Humans“, and from looking at the preview, “Cats” may steal the whole season anyway.