Review: HouseBroken “Who’s Trippin’?”

Overview

When Jill does ayahuasca and is able to communicate with animals, Honey tries to connect with her on a deeper level; Chief is shocked to learn that Jill isn’t his biological mother, and the three of them set off on an adventure to find his real mom.

Our Take

Typically when you see drugs in an animated series where we are expected to “trip”, animators like to use those opportunities to go nuts with the visuals. That said, I actually liked HouseBroken’s approach where we DIDN’T get those glimpses from the eyes of the humans because WE are supposed to be living in the world of the pets. Moreover, it forces the plots of the episode to be really descriptive in the characters’ actions so that we can understand their high quickly and not wait for a sequence to end.

Both approaches work, but I liked where “Who’s Trippin’?” was going with this one. The Gray One’s plot was a bit of an odd duck, almost trying to do the same thing as the Jill/Honey/Chief plot but I didn’t get as invested and I wasn’t quite getting what the point was of any of it. The ayahuasca trip was a bunch more fun where we got to learn a lot more about Chief, Honey’s relationship to her owner, and what a strip club in an animated series created by women would entail. The ending may have been a bit cliche, but Nat Faxon as “Chief” is so damn funny I kind of didn’t care.