Spoilers Below

The government’s looking to revoke the funding in support of The Awesomes and this time Joyce is NOT messing around. Turns out Malocchio has taken on a new government position where he’s able to help on superhero matters such as this.

Joyce brings on a therapist to try and talk some sense into the Awesomes and everyone seems to be into the idea except Prock. Turns out these therapists are robots and after destroying a bunch of them Joyce still thinks the heroes are nuts and orders more therapy.

Turns out robo-therapist are the government’s way of getting the results they want and the sensation is so popular even the President has a robo-therapist. Later, a wombat is tearing up downtown so Prock and the gang have to jump in, but most of the Awesomes end up reasoning with the Wombat which doesn’t work and the team loses the battle. Back at base, we learn that the robo-therapists record all of their conversations with their patients and save them on a server farm overseas.

Prock, Gadget Girl, and Hotwire ALL get thrown out of the Awesomes because of the Robo-Therapists leaving the rest of the team to manage themselves in the fight against crime. Similar to Skynet, all of the robots turn on humanity, but with the team split up there is no one around to stop them!

The robots are getting ready to smash, but because they know everyone’s secrets, no one not even Perfect Man will fight back…except Prock! He shows up to the battle and he decides to let everyone in on all his secrets which causes the robots to self-destruct. Joyce grants the Awesomes their funding, and we find out that Malocchio is behind all of the server farms…or is he??

You know what I didn’t even think about until just now with Hulu? Ordinarily when we have an animated series on TV its very seldom that networks let show runners do a whole bunch of arcs because they would rather schedule airings for new episodes around say guest stars and ratings sweeps and things of that nature. With Hulu, they don’t give a shit about that, rather they let the people running the show to kind of orchestrate how THEY want the series to unfold which makes for a rather investing experience when you start in on a new series. The Awesomes similar to Archer employs this method and continues to do so with better and better results every week. This week’s episode is a case and point, like SOMETHING is going on and I want to know what so I have to keep watching. The only other shows I really do that with are maybe The Newsroom or Breaking Bad. Am I saying The Awesomes are in the same categories as those shows? No, but the series is doing a lot to progress animated television.

The episode itself employed a bunch of robots that seem inspired by the Jail-bots from Superjail thrown into a Terminator/i-Robot premise, but there are a bunch of key elements in the writing that keeps pulling me in to want to see more so I almost forget that I’m watching anything inspired. Hold on to your hats folks, we could have another serious contender for best new animated series of the year for 2013…and it may not be on cable.

9 out of 10