REVIEW: UNSUPERVISED “The Great Traveler’s Road”

GARY AND JOEL GET CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A TURF WAR.

Spoilers Below

Gary and Joel are back and this week they meet up with some rich preppy kids at the local Five-Points mart only to be on the receiving end of a nacho value meal bath. The next day at school, Gary and Joel tell Meg and Darius all about it and hope to make their relationship with the prep school kids as civil as possible. They eventually work their way back to the Five-Points, and meet a new group of kids called the Vocies aka the Vocation School kids. Meg sees this as an opportunity to make friends with a school she’s always wanted to go to, but the girls don’t even give her the light of day. Fortunately, she meets a kid named Andrew of whom also counts his mom as his best friend similar to Meg. However, Gary and Joel’s attempts at making peace with the prep school kids doesn’t go as smoothly and as such, we get a war!

Back at the dump, Gary and Joel are rounding up some ammunition and recruits like Darius, which leaves Russ behind to deal with Meg and her new boyfriend Andrew of whom’s relationship is starting to get a tad crazy.  Weirdly enough, when Gary, Darius, and Joel start dumping trash on the prep school lawn, it just bounces off. Turns out, the lawn is a self-cleaning field of grass that doesn’t take garbage, and all that does is get the guys caught then thrown off the campus. The Dean of the prep school eventually meets with Principal Stark, and they come to an agreement that none of the public school kids are allowed at the Five Points Mart anymore. This infuriates Gary and Joel of whom decide to go and get some new backup in the form of the Vocies.

Turns out the Vocies are lead by a butch-looking chick with the voice of an angel and Meg’s been dating a 6th Grader. Right before the fight starts, Stark joins the fray along with Meg, but a semi-trailer veers off of the highway and destroys the Five Points which pretty much makes it useless for anyone.

I’ve never seen a series end almost 9 months after its premier so its somewhat perplexing that this is the beginning of the end for Unsupervised.  Overall, I felt the plot was somewhat similar to ‘Stupid Idiots’ mashed up with ‘Field of Dreams’. but this episode might have been a bit funnier due to the fact the groups had better jokes and came off a bit meaner. The one thing I couldn’t help but crack up at was Russ who always seems to show up randomly with either porn, medical waste, or hot dogs and cause some sort of scene. The one kid who kept annoying me however, was Darius who showed up to the episode with a lame-ass essay writing issue that always seemed to be a waste of time rather then add to the main plot in terms of importance. That said, it was great to see some new Unsupervised, and I look forward to seeing some more.

(8.0 out of 10)