Review: Randy Cunningham ‘Pranks for Nothing’

Spoilers Below

Bash is having a grand ol time pulling pranks on Randy all day, and the Ninja wants to fight back! Well, by fight I mean layout a prank of his own which makes the big oaf turn into a walking mess. McFist arms Bash with a new gun that seems non-lethal but can still pack a punch. Basically it turns everything into something else, but it overheats and turns into a monster.

Ninja shows up and saves Howard, but the gun-monster is now terrorizing the school although it seems to like Bash still. Ninja eventually destroys it, and with that everything the machine turned nuts is now back to normal. McFist isn’t happy about it, but Bash has other machines to play with. Randy and Howard clean up the school hall ways, but that doesn’t mean the pranking has stopped.

Randy Cunningham is a very under-rated series and in my opinion I think it should have more prime-time episodes instead of the Saturday Morning crap because this did a funnier job at pranking than Crash and Bernstein. Disney XD has a really great chance to build a decent animation block geared towards an older crowd that doesn’t want to wake up at 8am on a Saturday and I hope the ratings come out for this and show that’s the case. Ben Schwartz (Randy) is outstanding in his role and John Dimaggio (McFist) is the perfect antagonist doing for the hero what Doofenschmirtz does for Perry the Platypus. The design on the creatures is wildly imaginative and the action is top-notch. The series also features a who’s who of back-end cast that I don’t think gets the credit they deserve with notable names like Kevin Michael Richardson (The Cleveland Show), Megan Mullally (Axe Cop), John Oliver (Daily Show), and Tim Curry (God). Great episode, great show, needs to stay at this time slot.