REVIEW: BRICKLEBERRY “THE DAM SHOW”

In the Season 1 finale, a fireworks celebration for Woody’s birthday destroys a dam and Brickleberry River floods the park, forcing the rangers to form a new community on an island with the other survivors.

Spoilers Below

Its Woody’s birthday and its sounding like its gonna be a bash, especially with Malloy handling all of the party prep by demolishing the forest and purchasing fireworks from Firecracker Jim. Ethel’s kind of pissed off about the whole thing due to the fact that the party planning is trying to kill off an endangered species. Instead of putting up with Ethel’s P.M.S bullshit, Woody puts Ethel on a leave of absence until the party is over. When the party starts, it looks like its a great time with food, magic, and clowns (YUCKO!!!). Yep, the party looks good, right up until Malloy sets off the atomic bomb of fireworks which blows up the damn and sends a flash flood that ruins the whole party. While still pissed off and somewhat inebriated, Ethel actually has a chance to save Woody from the raging waters but she opts to save eggs belonging to her endangered eagle.

Meanwhile, Connie has the hots for a fellow party planner named Trudy that looks kinda like her, and as such Denzel agrees to help by playing matchmaker by showing off some magic tricks. Denzel’s first trick was to teach Connie a handcuffs routine but because of the flood they lose the kid which means the two are chained together for the time being.  With Woody presumed dead, Steve is the new leader of their new island aka ‘Steveland’. Steve institutes a new ‘no rules’ policy which is great because Judy starts to reciprocate Connie’s feelings and it looks as though shit’s gonna get freaky deaky because Denzel is still attached and he has to tag along for the ride.  Later on, you can see Steveland is starting to lose its foundation as nobody wants to help with the situation and instead would rather not ration food or try and escape the island using a rowboat opting instead to use it for firewood. Thankfully, we see that Woody is still alive on the other side of the island so is help on the way? Probably not, as being all alone is causing the head park ranger to go nuts.

Speaking of nuts, Denzel’s nuts become Trudy’s property! Yep, Trudy only hung out with Connie to get to the black dude in hopes of scoring and it works much to the chagrin of Connie who finds out the hard way. However, Denzel’s tryst doesn’t last too long as Connie breaks the news to Trudy that the man of her dreams is a woman beater, all of which causes Judy to run away in tears.  As expected the island runs out of food so the other Steve-landeers over run Ethel and take her newly hatched eaglets so that they can cook the shit out of them. Ethel wishes that the island had a real leader instead of Steve, of which Malloy tells her that Woody is still alive but maybe not all there.

When Ethel finds Woody, he is indeed out of his fucking mind. To help, she uses reverse psych to tell Woody happy bday and to come back over to the other side of the island and reclaim his title as the leader of these parts. At first, Steve is happy to give up his throne, but instead a fight breaks out between Steve and Woody with the latter coming out on top just in time for FEMA to show up for dinner!  Brickleberry is saved, Trudy comes clean to Connie and Denzel, Denzel comes clean to Connie and Trudy, and Ethel’s birds are ready to soar…for about 10 seconds.

Ohhh man, the race for Bubbleblabber’s Best New Show of 2012 has JUST got interesting with this latest entry!  This first season ends with a hell of a fireworks display in not only showmanship but in jokes. For one, watching a man roll around the ground with no limbs and set off fireworks is one of sickest things I’ve ever seen and I loved it. Seriously, watch that part twice cuz its funny. Woody also had a great line with his ‘I gotta go back to Iraq to complete my necklace of baby dicks’….yep THAT just happened. Ethel had a hysterically funny speech to Woody later on in the episode too while trying to talk him back over to the island which does nothing else but to confirm that Kaitlin Olson is playing the voice role of her career. Denzel’s sex dream with Judge Judy might also go down as the most disturbing few images I’ve ever seen, mainly because I have thought about porking Judy and now I kinda have a taste of what it’d e like…gross! However, the one-liner king had to have been Malloy with his Charle Wilson’s War jokes and his rampant whispers to a crazy Woody. However, with the main plot being this funny, I felt the Trudy/Connie/Denzel story plot was lacking in any substance and even seemed to get in the way near the end.  We are going to have a bunch of other posts about Brickleberry in the next week or so, but if you have been missing this show you should because its so much more than ‘Tosh’s’ show.

(8.0 out of 10)