Review: Pickle and Peanut “Cart Rustlers / Swim Lessons”

Spoilers Below

“Cart Rustlers

Some fucking group of assholes are stealing the carts at the mart, so Pickle and Peanut are put in charge of keeping watch to make sure no one messes with the store’s shit. Unfortunately, it’s all a disaster, and soon Pickle gets taken hostage while Peanut is sound asleep. At first, the ‘Cart Rustlers’ are almost something out of Prison Pit, but soon we find out that this gang is just about having fun crashing carts. Peanut shows up, and he wins a contest that sees the carts returned in return for jobs for all.

Our Take

As mentioned in the recap, this first episode of the evening had a Prison Pit meets The Warriors vibe that was rather bad ass. The show is starting to remind me quite a bit of Regular Show in that, it’s an animated buddy comedy, and usually something outlandish follows a rather ordinary concept. The live-action bits seemed to be more common this time around, but they don’t interrupt the series as much as you’d think, instead they accentuate broad strokes. A lot of ‘outside-the-box’ techniques are deployed, more so in this quarter-hour, that may deserve your attention.

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Swim Lessons”

Pickle doesn’t know how to swim, so Peanut signs him up for swim lessons. Peanut already knows how to swim, so he opts to take off until he meets the cute swim instructor giving lessons. During the course of the training, Pickle makes it all the way until he has to head off of the diving board at the deep end, in which case, he gets scared. Peanut falls in after checking out the swim instructor’s gross little friend, and the entire pool gets flushed into the sewer. Pickle dives in after his pal, heads into the sewers below, and rescues his pal. He obtains his swimming badge, and the duo head out.

Our Take

A lot of different shows have done swim lesson concepts, but like the aforementioned comparison to Regular Show, it’s what you do with those ordinary concepts Enter, ‘Swim Lessons’. It kinda starts like a normal swim lesson that we’ve seen a dozen times, but when you throw in a mutated instructor, a kid trying to kill Peanut, and a pool that comes complete with the features of a toilet, you realize you’re in a whole new ballgame. Probably the funnier of the two quarter-hours, but not as grandiose so it kind of evens out.

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