Review: Wild Grinders – “The Treasure Of The Sierra Sprawl” And “Special Delivery”

Another Thursday morning. The ritual happens all over again. Hazelnut coffee in my LSU mug, girlfriend cleaning the apartment while listening to deplorable, new age hipster music. As for me? I’m about to go neck deep into some Wild Grinders!

SPOILERS BELOW!!!

“THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA SPRAWL”-

Before we really dig into the synopsis of this short there’s been a small bit character that I’ve always wanted to address but just never saw my chance until now. Rob’s father Gene has been an underrated and grossly underused character since Dyrdek came on the scene with “Rob and Big” and “Fantasy Factory.” Gene has that “every dad” awkward quality that makes every scene he is in just a little bit funnier. Rob’s imitation of his dad is hilarious, as proven in this clip from Fantasy Factory. Skip to like 2:45 and get ready to laugh!

This episode starts out with the same premise as the YouTube clip provided as Rob, Gene and Meaty are eating/farting, much to the dismay of Rob’s mom, Patty. Patty shoos the boys away so she can take a bite of the “Stinky,” a gas-inducing burrito. We then get a mom farting joke. Gross.

The Grinders gather for a hang out. Emo is his usual, jovial self. He requests the TV be turned on, a Stinky and to be left alone. Why do they hang out with this kid? So the TV switches on and there’s a special broadcast. A press conference is happening and it appears as if the government will be banning the production and use of Stinky’s! Just then, a Special Forces team bursts through the house like the S.T.A.R.S. members in the first Resident Evil flick. They purge the house of all Stinky’s and continue on their mission.

Luckily for the Grinders, Lil Rob always comes prepared. He’s been keeping a Stinky’s stash in a place that no one could ever find: A secret, underground lair. The Grinders descend into the pit, through multiple moving doors and into the main chamber only to discover Stubford has eaten “the best secret stash he’s ever eaten.” Possible weed joke. Hilarious.

Spitball speaks of a legend that there’s a single, yet most potent Stinky in the Sierra Sprawl. The Sprawl is a desert like wasteland but the Grinders see no other alternative. The group happens upon a skeleton holding a treasure map. They grab the map and head on their way, only to have the skeleton pop up and say that he’s still searching! (Goggles breaks the 4^th wall here and just shrugs. It’s nothing monumental but it’s friggin HYSTERICAL!) They choose to use their off-road boards and begin to look for the treasure. Jack Knife says that he needs a break because his tongue is like a desert. He sticks his tongue out to reveal a little group of Grinders on the same mission. There’s a nod to the “We ain’t found shit!” joke from Spaceballs. Nice.

They begin to chat about how they’ll split the last Stinky, until Meaty brings up how hilarious it would be if only one of them were to find it and leave the wrapper for the rest of the six. They start turning against each other. Goggles goes crazy and traps the Grinders in cages. Rob burrows out of his cage and convinces the Grinders to work together. They decide to camp out for the night and the shelter they find just so happens to be the spot where the Stinky is located. They open the trap door and a spokesman appears. He reveals that the Grinders have won the contest and that they’ll be the coolest kids in 1984. Jack Knife says that 1984 was like a million years ago. Fuck off, Jack Knife.

The spokesman laments on how he’s wasted his entire life sitting in a hole in the desert. The Grinders climb down the hole and into the chamber where the last Stinky’s are kept only to find Stubford there again enjoying the last bite. He then farts and explodes the cavern, causing the Grinders to explode from the hole and form a huge sand ball that rolls them back to Rob’s house.

“SPECIAL DELIVERY”-

The Grinders hash their way to Lil Rob’s couch to kick back and watch some TV. They’re greeted with commercials for a burrito juicer, skateboard garage and skateboard horn. These products whip the Grinders into fervor. They all hop on their phones to check the prices only to find out that it’s way out of their price range. Rob suggests that they all get jobs. The Fixies (on brakeless bikes) show up at Papa Calzoni’s just before the Grinders. Rob tries to sell why they should be the delivery boys. He even goes as far as to suggest a contest between the two groups to see who is superior. Each team is given a pizza and the group that gets there first will be Calzoni’s official delivery team.

The Wild Grinders take a short cut through a construction site. But the Fixies follow suit and are able to deliver the pizza first but only after the Grinders delivered a bike tire instead. Once the actual pizza is delivered, we cut to two announcers from The Gnarly Network. They’re gonna play back and show where the Grinders messed up. Apparently the Fixies were able to play the ol switch-a-roo on Rob and thus will be receiving the jobs instead. Or will they? Papa Calzoni says they are disqualified for juicing. Pay attention here, kids, because apparently drinking out of juice boxes will get you DQ’d from most lines of work. The Fixies know this as well so they begin to state their case until Calzoni cuts them off and shows evidence that they also took a taxi to the delivery instead of their bikes. The Fixies argue that that tactic isn’t illegal and Calzoni says that both teams will get a second chance. There’s another delivery and it’s headed to the scariest place in town, Mountain Of Fear. No pizza delivery boy has ever survived a trip to the mountain.

The Fixies choose to take the main road while the Grinders choose to take their off-road boards. The Fixies struggle to gain the hill on their brakeless bikes while the Grinders one-by-one make it to the top of the mountain only to be greeted by Papa Calzoni himself, or so they thought. It was actually Track Hucksterball (Stubford’s dad) and he was just about to cancel his order. He says this was all a part of his reality show where he sees how difficult he can make a pizza delivery then says the Grinders have won the grand prize of a billion dollars! He then explodes the money and says that the show is a prank show and that they’ve all been “Hucksterballed.” The Grinders head back down the mountain using their Jack Knife horn instead.