Overview
Garbage accumulates in Krapopolis; Tyrannis discovers how to get the townsfolk in a cleaning mood; Stupendous and Hippocampus become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Our Take
This week’s episode of Krapopolis moves into one of the show’s more original tropes: inventions we take for granted. Examples included in the episode are actually somewhat multi-faceted and they include grease pits (still used today by a lot of fast food restaurants), sanitation departments, and gods.
To help tell the tales we get a litany of quality guest stars like John Gemberling and Jason Mantzoukas of whom has really become a fixture in adult animation, especially on FOX where he’s voiced characters on Housebroken, Bob’s Burgers, and more. But these two along with a host of others help serve dialogue from a well-written Danielle Weisberg script that maybe wasn’t one of the funnier episodes by any stretch of the imagination, but very well thought out and full of satirical qualities.
It would’ve been so easy to review an episode that’s about garbage and then just to call this series and everything else garbage, but alas, when something’s good it’s good and this week’s episode was good enough to get more than a passing grade. When the series stays concise and doesn’t get lost in its litany of characters, Krapopolis is better for it.