Review: Mr. Birchum “This Means War-ranty”‘

For my money, the greener grass was in the “A-plot” which features Tyler’s aforementioned character coupled with the star of the series, Adam Carolla’s “Mr. Birchum”. I say this because I really felt like the show made a pretty funny, and largely on-the-money, point on America’s constant outsourcing of what used to be quality American goods to be made overseas in China that only does two things: 1) Make products crappier and 2) Takes jobs away from American people. Other conglomerates like Amazon and Tiktok also get a wallop here, making points on matters that I think even most progressives, who may have been turned off by the initial premise of the show and the fact that it’s on DailyWire+, solace and understanding. In fact, I thought we spent so much time on these matters that we really didn’t even have enough time to enjoy the school play that the episode was building up to that I thought was going to land much funnier than it did. Take away the usually needless trying-to-be Family Guy cutaway gags and I think enough time could’ve been found to have successfully score a home run in hilarity because most of the gags and insults from Adam were rather well-written. I would’ve liked to have seen a bit more bravery as it pertains to the crassness of the series, but overall a solid effort all-around.

Mr. Birchum is clearly learning on the job here. The show is starting to make its voice loud-and-clear much in the same way as the big boys do, just not quite as sophisticated in execution. Ironically, the series features voice actors that are very talented writers, guys like Kyle Dunnigan and even Tyler Fischer that wouldn’t mind a story credit-fee in exchange for some punch-ups on the dialogue because the ideas are there, but it’s all in the execution. Much better episode than the two-part premiere, but still room to improve.