Review: TripTank – “Crossing The Line”

Episode 2. Is this show better than a hobo covered in BBQ sauce? Find out after the JUMP!!!

 

Spoilers Below!!!

Drunk Rhino-

So this rhino walks up to a Maître d and asks for entry to the establishment. When he’s refused, the rhino says that he’s not being let in because the people are racist. He then attempts to “Angry Birds” himself in as we head to the Help Desk…

We come back to see the rhino sitting on the curb and talking on the phone with his ex-girlfriend. After she hangs up on him because of his indecent proposal, he warns the crowd to never date a Caribbean woman as we go to commercial.

The rhino is now in the Maître d’s face again. So he takes him hostage and walks inside. He threatens to blow the Maître d’s head off if he doesn’t get some wine, but all the wine snobs ignore this request. So he turns the gun on himself and the crowd changes its tune. They get the endangered rhino some wine and he sits down. As he reaches for his bottle it falls over, spills, and crashes to the ground.

Score

6.5

Giant Burrito-

Billy Popovich is known for solving all of the world’s problems. So when he’s thumbing through a magazine and sees a starving kid, he must fix it. So he brings this to the attention of his friends in a roundtable discussion in his office. The janitor offers to assist, but they shoo him off for being a lowly janitor and completely ignore the fact that he has some pretty powerful degrees. They go around and discuss what they’re eating. The last guy is going to crush this giant burrito and that gives Billy an idea. They’ll build a super burrito. But where could they construct such a burrito? The janitor suggests they build it in the Grand Canyon. A 25 mile round tortilla could hold years worth of food for all the starving people and the blazing sun could keep it warm. But what about all of that diarrhea? Well that answer is simple. Build a super toilet that flows down the mighty Mississippi and through New Orleans. Crisis averted.

Score

8

Suck It, Gary-

Gary is reading a menu at a diner. Meanwhile, three dudes are in a van outside plotting against innocent ol Gary.  The driver argues with his crew because he thinks the prank they’re going to pull is stupid. Also, he doesn’t want to play a waiter character. As the fake waiter takes Gary’s order, his friends bust through the door and commence with a robbery. They take Gary hostage and Gary pisses himself. Then the robbers reveal that it was all a prank.

Gary is seated at the table again when the waiter asks him if he’d like some water. Gary’s life just flashed before his very eyes, so the water would be very soothing. The waiter tosses it in his face and runs away.

Gary gets a club sandwich delivered to his table. As you can expect, this is another prank and Gary chomps down on a shit sandwich.

The guys in the van are driving away and discussing their conquest. The victors describe how they pissed their pants a little during the robbery. This causes them all to become more vengeful towards Gary.

Score

8

Other Sketches-

“2 Tabs For The Ice Cream”, “The Last Dead Unicorn”, “Suicidal Attention Whore Chicken”, “Baby 12 Step”,  “Versus”, “Dick Genie”, “Jumper Boner”

Desk Sketches-

“Ballerina Girlfriend/Fat Naked Red Guy”, “Girlfriends/Fat Naked Red Guy/Prep School Jerk Off”, “Roman Kid/Fat Naked Guy/Girlfriends/Everyone’s In A Party Call”, “Roman Kid Talks To Ballerina Girlfriend”

Sketch Of The Night-

Between Dana Snyder and Zach Galifianakis, amongst many other guest voices, I gotta give the edge to ”Suck It, Gary”

Sketch To Skip-

There really wasn’t a sketch to skip this week, but I am hoping that we won’t see this many repeat sketches next week.