Review: Brickleberry “Miss National Park”

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There is a sound that a dog makes every time Connie walked around in anything other than a park ranger’s uniform: woof. Then again, I think that was the reaction the producers were going for. This week, the stories were rather straight forward, with the second  not taking up a lot of time.

Of course, the main focus was on Connie and Ethel, and which one of them was going to win the Miss National Park pageant. The odds on favorite is obviously Ethel, who is everything Connie is not, like a woman. Woody helps out Ethel, because he needs to get even on his gambling bets. Malloy, however, helps Connie, because he wants her first prize of a plane ticket, so he can kill a kid in a wheelchair who fucks with Malloy while he’s playing. When Malloy takes over as producer, and turns the finals into a cage match from hell, with Connie eventually winning. Side note, someone should have had a radar for that thong that shot out from Connie’s gunt.

The other story, about Steve and Denzel learning threesome-etiquette for this girl they’re both dating, ended up as a quick story. With the exception of the moments where this story overlapped the main story’s section, both stories were allowed to leave.l I am not really sure if that was a smart idea, because neither story can really flourish with help from the other story. Steve and Denzel could have been cut from the episode, and we would have been none the wiser.

The ads were describing this to be really raunchy and fucked up, but I think “In the Club” was even more fucked up in terms of gross out moments. The only time I was actually even creeped out was when Steve was sweet talking Denzel’s drawing of a woman. Yeah, I know Connie is a walking gag reel, but it wasn’t even as bad as Yukko and Waco could possibly get. In fact, we all know Brickleberry can get gross.

A plot about a homely woman kicking (literal) ass while at a beauty pageant is a great story to tell, because Connie has been on the shit end of a lot during Brickleberry’s run. Seeing Ethel get her ass kicked was pretty funny as well, especially since there can be no co-champions in pageants. Then again, none of this would be possible if it weren’t for Malloy’s obsession to end a Chinese kid’s life after Malloy got tea bagged in a video game. By the way, Tosh actually felt like he was a part of the cast this week, instead of being a canned response.

While I really enjoyed “Miss National Park,” I walked away from the episode with a tint of disappointment. I think it would have went a lot better cutting out Steve and Denzel, because nothing they did had any correlation with the National Park Pageant, but was grasping at straws when TJ’s husband turns out to be the bookie that Woody owes 20 grand to. I mean, I guess you can just shoehorn in a strand of a plot to connect everything together. This could have been an episode on it’s own, but ended up detracting from “Miss National Park,” a bit.