Powerful New York mob boss Jimmy Falcone enters the Witness Protection Program and brings his family — wife Cookie, daughters Theresa and Gina, son Anthony, and Uncle Cheech — along for the adventure of a lifetime. Far from New York’s busy streets, the Falcone family arrives in the peaceful town of Oakville, where the pace is far slower and Jimmy doesn’t always get his way.

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This week’s episode of Fugget About It, titled “The Horny Bastard”, has featured more postproduction censorship than every other episode combined. Whether it is curse words being beeped out or body parts and black bars, the constant pixilated hand gestures of Mac, the French Canadian, proved that the censorship in its entirety was obviously a gimmick and clearly written into the script.

It all starts when Jimmy has grown bored from his job and loathsome of his coworkers. He begins fantasizing about suicide, where the series takes another clever approach to nationality stereotypes – from an all-American gun to his head, a Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment with a Tanto (known as ‘Seppuku’) or the classic Italian gangster strangulation with piano wire (Jimmy even managed to fantasize wearing black leather gloves).

Uncle Cheech decides to take Jimmy out for a night on the town. In an effort to find a strip club and realizing every potential club is actually a literal meaning of its moniker – Pussy Magnet, Boob Palace and Dirty Women aren’t in fact strip clubs – Uncle Cheech and Jimmy devise a plan to open their own (and only) strip club in Vagina, I mean, Regina.

Contrary to what Jimmy was anticipating, RCMP Special Agent Strait McCool gives Jimmy his approval and blessing (after a long lecture on laws, rules and regulations, of course).

Theresa manages to get a gig after Mac (the newly hired manager of The Horny Bastard, who Cheech thinks is Puerto Rican) hires her, but since Jimmy disapproves, he has to pay her off to not work as a dancer. It results in Theresa constantly emptying her father’s pockets to buy her love.

Meanwhile, at the Falcone household, Petey becomes a good role model for Gina after helping her with her math homework. Cookie then gives Petey the task of influencing Gina to do the things their mother asks of her, by leading by example. It results in Petey looking like Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz in Mask) after an asparagus allergy and a matching haircut. But the tutu and ballet lessons are where Petey draws the line.

This was a great episode, as the plot kept moving and the jokes kept coming. Some of the film references/parody scenes that are commonly used in the show keeps my interest, as it has for years in other satirical cartoons like The Simpsons, Family Guy or South Park. This episode happened to channel Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” cleverly. Fugget About It has the potential to become a staple in cartoons for a mature audience this side of the border, and in the words of Franco-Canadian Mac, “Shwa shwa shwa, shwa shwa, shwa shwa.”

Score

8/10

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