Review: Kirby Buckets “School Spirit”

Spoilers Below

Kirby Buckets wants to design a school mascot, but Mitchell won’t allow it despite the fact that Kirby’s got some pretty cool pitches. They gang do some research and learn there actually was a mascot, and that Mitchell’s been trying to hide him this whole time. The boys dig up an abandoned costume that transmits the mascot’s spirit and causes Fish to be turned into a zombie that demands Kirby and Eli to drum up school spirit to save Fish. Kirby decides to come up with a campaign for the school to embrace that they are the worst which awakens the spirit and causes the mascot costume to come to life. Kirby decides that Mitchell is the only one that could help and as a result, Eli and a now free Fish head to the Principal’s house and learns that Mitchell is trained as a Mascot Slayer and he’s been preparing for a fight.

Meanwhile, Dawn wants to investigate what the hell Belinda is up to when she’s not around. Dawn ends up finding a closet that Belinda inhabits when she wants alone time, but when Belinda tries to leave the closet, she locks the both of them inside.

Mitchell breaks out the girl and hits them with a crossbow before heading into the hall way and stabbing the mascot dong in the back after he is distracted by Kirby and Eli. The mascot dies and is buried, but Kirby has a new idea for a character.

Our Take

There was a lot to like about this episode. For starters, the cinematic, almost Tarantino-like directorial effort that would show up in spurts was very, very impressive. I mostly noticed it when the show opened and especially with Mitchell’s unveiling of being a bad ass. Hell, it even sounds like the music producers did a piss poor job of recreating some of the Kill Bill Vol 1 soundtrack when we get back to the school for our battle.

But, the plot was just so friggin’ convoluted, and the mascot didn’t seem all that bad of a dude that we even had to get rid of him. I mean, at the end of the day it was a dude running around in a dog suit (I had it pegged as a NYC rat) making funny noises. Where I’m from, that’s entertainment.

The Belinda/Dawn bit was kind of annoying and non-believable in any sense of the word, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching Mitchell cross bow the hell out of the two of them. I’ll take more of that any day.