Review: Brickleberry “Old Wounds”

If you didn’t know shit would go down with the new Secretary of the Interior coming to Brickleberry, you need to stop smoking all of that weed.

Spoilers Below

Tonight’s episode of Brickleberry, “Old Wounds,” lived up to expectations. No, Malloy didn’t go after Steve in this episode. However, Woody’s old war buddies came to the park. The shit hits the fan early for Woody, and it hits often.

The last few weeks, I have been discussing that the two stories in each episode have been more like two different episodes. Well, this week, both stories feed off of one another. We have Woody in one, who loses his position as head of Brickleberry. In the other, we have Denzel, who gets clean and takes over Woody’s position thanks to the new Secretary of the Interior. The segments with Woody start with a story of how he saved one of his squad mates, the Red Skulls. When a grenade was thrown at the two, Woody pulled Jack Gabowski onto the grenade, killing him.  This was just the beginning of Woody’s hardships, and you just need to watch this to see how it unfolds.

I can’t get over how funny this entire line of events were, and what the resolution was. Woody and Malloy just floored me with their moronic schemes, yet some how, they manage to almost make it work. Well, except for when Malloy convinces Woody that he’s a part of a ranger union. Just one night in Firecracker Jim’s shitbox trailer was enough to get Woody to do whatever Malloy can think of, because he can’t think of a good plan himself. Well, at least he got a good zinger in on a kid at the school at the beginning of the episode.

Denzel, on the other hand, is a story of how clean living and hard work can pay off. How did he do that, you may ask? Well, he quit weed cold turkey due to an upcoming drug test, courtesy of the Secretary of the Interior. Denzel quickly becomes the most productive ranger at Brickleberry, rising to where Woody was. Unfortunately, with his new lifestyle and work title, Denzel starts to lose Steve as his bud. He doesn’t completely lose out, because he sells his pot brownies and pot water to an unsuspecting Ethel and Connie. Connie and Ethel may be the funniest segments of the show, because they end up completely retarded from being high.

This has to be one of the more complete episodes of Brickleberry in a long time. Every bit of the story felt connected, and it was funny as hell. I got taken aback by how everything revolving around the Secretary of the Interior turned out, but it all made sense, especially if you payed attention from the beginning. The only thing I really have to gripe about is that they played the story with the Secretary way too hard. Within five minutes of her introduction, you knew something was up. But hey, if you just watch without paying attention, you’ll be fine. This is easily the best episode of the season, mainly because it feels like an episode where everything comes together. “Old Wounds” is what the standard should be for future episodes.