Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries “A Dog’s Life”

Don’t offer to make gazpacho if you’re not gonna make gazpacho.

Spoilers Below

Well, we’re here. At the end. All the building plots across the franchise converge and culminate in the ultimate payoff which will answer all questions forever and yet still leaves us begging for more.

And now that I am done talking about the Game of Thrones premiere, let’s move onto the finale of Mike Tyson Mysteries!

Mike and the team head to San Francisco for some sight seeing and what could be a stupid mystery: A woman named Lydia has a dog, Max, who hates her boyfriend Phillip and they can’t figure out why. She also mentions that her previous husband Andrew died tragically and Max came into her life when she was at her lowest. This tips Marquess off that the dog might be the reincarnated spirit of her husband, which explains why he wouldn’t like her dating someone new. Marquess calls up a medium friend, Brianna, to help, who not only confirms that Max is Andrew (gasp), but that he was actually murdered by Phillip (GASP), and also that…well, that’s it (GAAAAAAAASP). Marquess changes Max back to his human form to out Phillip!

Only it’s not the guy they hoped for and is actually some guy named Jim Bankerd. And the reason he hates Phillip is actually that he kept putting things in his tiny dog butthole. Which I guess is a perfectly fine way to spend your time, but not approved by Lydia, who tells him to hit the road. Jim sees the opening and asks her out, leading them to walk down the sloped streets of San Fran into the sunset. A stupid mystery indeed.

As I’ve said previously, I’ve gotten pretty used to this show flipping expectations so often, to the point that I saw pretty much every joke turn around coming. Yung grunting behind the door can’t be her masturbating because Marquess brought up masturbating. Max couldn’t have been Lydia’s husband because they brought up that he might be. Phillip HAD to be putting stuff up Max’s butt because Pidgeon only mentioned it off hand. BUT Max had to be a different human BECAUSE it’s not something anyone thought of. Basically, you’re on a car ride that is so opposite to what you expect, it becomes a bit more predictable as a result.

Though that’s not to say they don’t have some good recurring gags. Like I said before, Pidgeon’s butt sticking joke comes back at the right time, along with Mike’s increasingly unreasonable snack requests. And I guess now we know a little bit more about how Marquess’s ghost powers work, even though I’m fairly certain we probably won’t see them being used that way again.

But yeah, that’s the end of this season of Mike Tyson Mysteries. Half the length of the last one, but the same length as the one before that. But how has the show grown? What has it still left to learn? Will there be a next season or is this it? And if so, will that season end with a musical episode, thus confirming my theory that musical episodes curse shows on Adult Swim to be canceled (Black Dynamite, China IL, Metalocalypse)? Find out next week when we take a look back on this past season.

…oh yeah, the score for this one. How about…