Spoilers Below

Turns out Axe Cop was born with a mustache and sometimes referred to as ‘Baby Mario’. We also learn that sort of like Bruce Wayne in Batman, his parents were killed only Axe’s parents had their candy-cane dinner poisoned and that’s why they died. From that day forth…Axe Cop swore off candy-canes.

To celebrate his birth month, Flute Cop agrees to pay for Axe Cop’s butler. Even better, the guys are going to the beach and Flute still owes Axe an even better present. All of the sudden Axe sees that the ocean has a whole bunch of mermaids and as a result he CHOPS THEIR HEADS OFF! Unfortunately for Axe, all of those mermaids were good guys. The rest of Axe’s friends attempt to cheer him up by throwing a birthday party, but they screw up the cake so Axe gets upset and heads into the closet. Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t all too difficult to get Axe to come out. When he does, Axe gets his REALLY big birthday card surprise…a birthday card with a picture of the guy who killed his parents…BAD SANTA!

As much as any of us would’ve like that Bad Santa was Billy Bob Thornton, that isn’t the case because THIS Bad Santa lives on ‘South Pole Planet’. P.S., this Bad Santa’s even worse! Turns out he didn’t even want to kill Axe’s parents rather he wanted to kill Axe because he was a good boy. And guess what? All good boys end up working for Bad Santa! Axe talks a big game, but Bad Santa strikes first by shooting Axe down with his candy cane gun. Axe gets knocked out cold and he gets this vision of Good Santa asking him to kill his evil twin once and for all. Axe wakes up to find Bad Santa taking off on a quest to kill God so that he can become Jesus. Axe summons the power of Christmas and strikes down Bad Santa then CHOPS HIS HEAD OFF! Axe then uses his new found powers to release the kids free and head back to HQ with a new addition to his head trash. Feeling pretty ‘medium’ Axe finally gets to have his cake…and eat it too.

There is a channel that is re-writing history again when it comes to cartoons and that network is FOX. Axe Cop is slowly but surely turning into the most important animated series since South Park and I’m hoping what spawns from this series are more shows that maybe try not to out gross each other or out cuss each other, but rather try and out-write each other. And guess what? Axe Cop may be tough to beat. The imagination behind these characters is unprecedented with how they are presented. From a Bad Santa riding around in a sleigh pulled by cobras, to mermaids that have mixed emotions, to even the Good Santa looking somewhat maniacal, this series is dropping elbows on other franchises one axe chop at a time. And guess what? The show is still hysterically funny. Flute Cop’s consistent reaction to a lot of Axe’s jargon is just the stuff that helps take the show from a comic-book inspired series in the vein of Batman to that of a true buddy comedy that is just oozing at the sores with witty dialogue and Axe’s blunt accusations. In all my years of watching animated television I have never seen a show quite like this and better yet we may get a lot of pretenders on the horizon, but this one’s going to be tough to match. I just hope the PR team for Axe Cop continues to support this series because I think they’ve done a shoddy job up to this point, and even worse the listings for the series keep changing and sometimes our local news fucks everything up. I may just continue to watch the show on FOXADHD.com, but let’s hope FOX straightens shit out rather fast because they could be fumbling a diamond right here.

10 out of 10