REVIEW: THE CLEVELAND SHOW “MAMA DRAMA”

A sad Mother’s Day looms for Donna because she’s estranged from her own mom, whom she hasn’t seen in years, so Cleveland hires an actress to play her. But then he runs into Donna’s real mother and makes one last effort to reunite them.

Spoilers Below

Cleveland loves finding shit for Donna and dubs himself “The Finder”(not to be confused with the now cancelled FOX show The Finder).  And of course like everything else Cleveland starts, he usually finds a shortcut to get through it so he instead hires an actress from a local theater to play a stand-in as Donna’s mom with his only real award being chocolate milk. Having said that, its freakin delicious chocolate milk! Eventually, Donna kills her ‘mother’ due to her rancid instrument playing causing Cleveland to come clean about whom the lady really is. Donna FLIPS and throws Cleveland out of the house causing him to sleep at his office desk. And guess who shows ? Dee Dee Tubbs (for real this time)!

Cleveland comes up with the bright idea to crash his car into a tree with Dee Dee in it, thereby making Donna come to the hospital for a visit. At first, Dee Dee introduces herself as Edna and tells the story of how she had a  little girl at a young age and has regretted leaving that little girl without really ever trying to be a part of her life. Eventually, Cleveland spills the beans and Dee Dee comes clean without getting Donna all uppity again about it.

I thought it was funny how Cleveland basically goes head on into a tree in order to get back with Donna but overall a somewhat boring episode. I actually think the plot was a bit too formulaic as the whole “finding a long lost relative” has been done a 1000 times. There was the opening gag with the Peanuts gang and Chris Brown which was pretty funny, but other than that I just wasn’t feeling it.