REVIEW:THE CLEVELAND SHOW “ALL YOU CAN EAT”

Season 3 finale: Roberta gives Jr. a makeover, and his new look gives him the confidence to approach a girl he has fancied. She mistakes him for a female, but that’s not the end of their relationship. Meanwhile, Cleveland gets into a snack-food fight.

Spoilers Below

Roberta keeps getting a bad rap at school for Junior’s sloppy image so she takes him to the mall to get a makeover. Junior goes through a whole image shakeup and even changes his name to ‘CJ’.On the way out of the store CJ checks out this girl Daisy who is at the arcade and soon she starts to like him and eventually they get into a pretty serious relationship to the point where she even asks CJ to the prom! Problem is Daisy thinks CJ is a lesbian girl because she dresses all butch. Fearing that he may lose the girl of his dreams, CJ refrains from coming clean. Like a lot of schools nowadays, Daisy gets word that she got a letter from their high school threatening to cancel the prom if the lesbian couple shows up. It actually works and scares off Daisy but CJ feels his rights as a lesbian are being tarnished so him and Roberta decide to go to the dance as a lesbian couple where a few minutes later CJ comes clean that he is NOT a lesbian and instead a boy. When Daisy finds out, at first she’s a bit upset but she takes it in stride and even gets a dance with Roberta!

Meanwhile, Cleveland gets into an internet food battle with a fat kid on who is the expert of a popular microwavable snack food called Slop Poppers Inc. Eventually, after going through repeated rounds of embarrassment like having his credit card declined and then his car towed, Cleveland enters into a contest with the kid at the snack food headquarters to see who is the Poppers King. However, the event is interrupted by the guy who runs the company as he feels his snack food is meant for people with a higher cause, not so much for fat pieces of tard with no redeeming qualities. As a result, the owner shuts down the company and no one is crowned a winner.

This week’s episode of Cleveland Show is pretty indicative of the whole seasons. The plots aren’t terrible but its simply not a very funny show. Rashida Jones as Daisy was alright but she clearly sounded bored in doing the role but I did enjoy everyone’s perception of Junior as a lesbian because of what he was wearing. Meanwhile, the food contest with Cleveland was probably one of the worst plot lines of the season and wasn’t funny at all. At least the A-plot with Junior and Daisy had a decent moral in the end, but the other story seemed just thrown together. Cleveland Show really has to come back strong next season if it wants to survive, and episodes like this aren’t going to help.