Review: Kirby Buckets “The Gil in My Life”

Spoilers Below

The S&P Mini-Mart is being closed for demolition after it’s found to be in major violations of local regulations. Kirby doesn’t want it to go because he uses the spot as his inspiration for new cartoon ideas. With Fish and Eli taking off on the worst idea I’ve ever heard for an episode, Gil’s gonna crash at the Buckets residence. This presents a problem because Gil turns the house into a convenience store with customers and that’s a bad thing. As a result, Kirby wants to teach Gil how to act human and soon he’s interested to Dad’s boss for a dinner interview.

Meanwhile, Dawn’s trying to learn how to sing for a national commercial, but she sounds like shit. Her dad makes a shit joke actually…literally. “A Star is Being Born” RIGHT before he goes poop. Anyway, Dawn things she sounds good singing in the toilet, but she’s gotta head into school in order to compete in the contest. Dawn ends up unhinging the toilet, then dumping the water on the lap of Dad’s boss because Gil decided to set the guy on fire during the dinner causing the guy to go ballistic.

Dawn loses out on her audition and Kirby vows to help Gil get his store back so he arranges to make the store a historical landmark, which works, and gets the store reopened.

Our Take

Fish and Eli’s trip to get shrimp was stupid as hell. But, kudos to Dawn’s end of the episode that turned me from another “Here’s another one with Dawn trying to hard” to “Dad did a poop joke/ends all poop jokes”. Good stuff.

For the meat and potatoes of the episode I really liked Gil and how he was one of the better small roles from season one to so far become more ingratiated into the series for season two. That said, Kirby just acted way too hard this time around, almost to the point of nothing being believable.

We did get a lot of toilet humor, and for that, we thank you.