Review: The Lucas Brothers Moving Co. ”Wildependence Day”

Overview (Spoilers Below)

There probably is no one movie star that personifies the 90s more so than Will Smith. I still remember like it was yesterday when my brother was trying to learn ‘Getting Jiggy With It’ all the while watching Independence Day for the 100th time. Can’t blame him though, Independence Day was a killer movie, so it makes perfect sense that if you were going to throw a holiday inspired by Mr. Smith, you would call it ‘Wildependence Day’.

And the producers of this show do this holiday justice, but it’s a holiday that almost didn’t happen due to the fact that the Lucas’ mother arrives to take the boys to church. While getting changed, (turns out Kenny and Keef wear their church clothes underneath their normal attire), the brothers’ mom gets kidnapped and imprisoned by aliens and switched with another mother that’s actually quite a bit cooler. She takes the boys down to the bar where Jerrod already has the place decked out with as much Will Smith as you can possibly muster. From the Carlton blasting over the PA to posters featuring some of the biggest films of Will’s career, it’s done the right way.

Eventually, three aliens show up to meet the brothers and while they turn out to be pretty chill dudes that are actually fans of Kenny and Keef’s work, at the end of the day they have the twins’ real mother. Thankfully, the green-trio tells Kenny and Keef exactly how to get her back which is the real treat of this week’s episode. Kenny and Keef head over to Queens in a setting VERY befitting of Men In Black where they break into the space ships and get their mother back. As luck would have it, freeing their real mother would unlock the spider-robot from Wild, Wild, West, but cool mom shows up and takes one for the team ala Randy Quaid’s in Independence Day. 

Our Take

After re-watching this episode three times, I’m sure there are STILL a bunch of Will Smith references I’m just missing in plain sight, but this week’s episode had a lot of them. Blake, Adam and Anders make for swell alien characters, and while their respected caricatures were rather typical representations of alien life forms (and none indicative of Will Smith’s career), I wouldn’t mind seeing these guys pop a few more times. Kenny and Keef had a lot of fun writing in some of Will Smith’s most famous one-liners and pop-references like ‘We Make This Look Good’, to dancing with the Men In Black aliens in the same setting that the aforementioned film had its climactic end scenes. I also loved the many cartoon moms taken prisoner on the alien space ship, see if you guys can catch those, too!  Someone get me a hat, this holiday is going to be for real, mark my words.