Review: The Jack and Triumph Show ”Commercial”

Spoilers Below

We open up with Triumph finding out from his agent that the show he and Jack starred in Triumph’s Boy, is still huge in Siberia and an ad agency wants to hire the two of them to do a commercial for horse bacon. It takes some convincing, but Jack opts to come with Triumph thinking that it will be part of a well-deserved vacation from his active work duties. The duo gets into town and starts to film the commercial, but Alan Thicke shows up as another option for the horse bacon campaign which leaves the producers of the commercial confused as to which route to go with. They decide to run a sort of contest where whichever stars of the commercial get more of the former cast members from their respective sitcoms will get paid the $20,000 fee.

After Jack loses an arm whilst not finding the Triumph-promised water park, we see Alan Thicke and Triumph come to the conclusion that neither can convince their former cast mates to make it on over to Siberia for a commercial shoot. Triumph even tried making a call to June pretending to be kidnapped with Jack by a Russian gang! On the day of the commercial shoot, the producers become a bit hesitant to film a commercial with Jack’s arm being missing, and lack of star power even with Alan Thicke dressed up as June. Thankfully, Triumph had called in Jack’s old stand-in to help with the arm, but the real June shows up with Seal Team 6 ready to destroy Jack and Triumph’s Russian captors. After discovering that this was all a hoax, June flips out just as a Russian grenade goes off and explodes a bunch of horse-bacon into her mouth. The three return home, and Larry O’Donnell runs a report claiming that June isn’t a real vegan and abuses animals.

Our Take

I’m pretty sure this is the last of the initial batch of episodes of The Jack and Triumph Show that Adult Swim has ordered but more are on the way. Alan Thicke is the latest in a number of guest appearances that were really well done, though I would have liked to have seen one more go of Joey or some more man on the street from Jack before we were let go. In any case, Jack losing an arm was hysterical, and June having a mouthful of meat was pretty great too. I’m a fan of Denis Leary, so those jokes hurt, but were well written and probably accurate. That said, this week’s episode didn’t show off a lot of the comedic muscle that this show is known for, though still an entertaining way to go out.

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