Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries: “Foxtrot Academy for Boys”

Doing the Whisky Tango at Foxtrot.

Spoilers Below

We get right into the thick of it as Mike and the team head to Foxtrot Academy to investigate a missing boy, Timothy (after Mike takes his sweet time taking a dump and charging his phone, that is). The dean of the school explains that the missing child is a US Senator, and so word getting out about the disappearance would irreparably harmful to the school, hence why they didn’t call the police.

Yung gets disguised as a boy to find out more, much to her dismay, but then finds out that the first years tend to go into the woods for a “jack off party”, which actually sounds like something that would happen at an all teenage boy school. Seems Timothy got a bit too into it and got left behind but never returned. They find a tree the boys described and Timothy inside it, as well as the fact that the tree is alive! Not only is it weirdly grateful to be impregnated by Timothy, it is also out for REVENGE at all the others who have “spilt their pecker wit” into its knot over two whole centuries.

Is it possible to get to a point of TYPICAL weirdness? Because since starting these reviews, it seems like a lot of these episodes are starting to blend into each other with just how “out there” they are. I mean, boys having jack off parties causing a tree to spring to life and steal penises is pretty much on the level with everything else I’ve seen in this show that aims to shock and confuse. I AM most certainly shocked and confused, but not really any more than I have been with melting Russian spy or the time travelling portal to a cannibal witch. This show really knows how to desensitize, is what I’m saying.

Although, I will say the major thing of note in this episode (besides actually using Yung’s being mistaken for a boy to actual practical use for once) is just how much Mike seems very self-centered, and there’s just nothing people can do about it. He holds everyone up with using the bathroom and talking to Deezy about guest hosting the view on top of that, then he kills the fish tank by unplugging it to charge his phone (which is more surprising that he found a plug for a fish tank to do that, but still), and then snaps at Marquess because he just wants to quit the mystery and focus on other things. Even the preview for the next episode shows him getting lunch before going to help a mystery client, despite Yung’s protests. And as Pigeon points out later, he COULD just freak out and kill them all if he felt like it, so they are basically at his mercy (and we’ve seen him do so before in previous episodes, so that’s not exactly a joke). Not that this show would ever go there due to its episodic nature, but…yeah.

Overall, pretty average weird for a weird and average Mike Tyson Mysteries episode.