Review: Sex Swing “Robot Rock”

Robots Rock!

Spoilers Below

Sex Swing returns for episode 2, “Robot Rock,” a rise to the double entendre-laden material promised by its name. When the first episode concluded, I wasn’t sure that Sex Swing would find its feet. But today, it has, and they are firmly planted in the gutter of puerile parody. I like it.

The episode opens on an obvious spoof of Scooby Doo, and we’re treated to just about the amount of sexual suggestion through puns that we can expect and all remember from high school. The band enters the scene, apparently a haunted house, as the surprise act for Gregory’s birthday party. But there is no Gregory, no birthday party, and no paycheck. The band’s missed another paying gig by showing up in the wrong place.

Once back at the pad, their cockram manager Max is sincerely distraught and tells them that in order to get paid, they’ve got to look to the future: “The old ways are dead, people don’t want to see fleshy human bands anymore!”

Queue 1980s montage à la Bloodsport or Top Gun, and we have Robot Rockers. While some of the band are busy teaching their robot counterparts to jam, Schling and his robot engage in a kind of philosophical dialog – with some unpredictable results for the robot band and the real one.

This episode was funnier the last. Though Sex Swing has had only a little time, it’s managed to stay consistent, and the audience will begin to see the pattern of easy one-liners, ridiculous situations, and quick resolutions to conflicts. It’s a somewhat shallow formula, but a fun one.