Review: Krapopolis “Ty Big Fat Greek Wedding”

Overview

Ty plots to skip out on his own wedding day; Stupe bonds with her future uncle-in-law; Shlub puts on his dancing horseshoes.

Our Take

A very interesting premise in this week’s episode of Krapopolis. Led by the fact that the climax is all about Ty’s love interest not being interested in a relationship and creeped out about his advances. For a Dan Harmon series, that really hits close to home don’t ya think?

In any event I can relate to Ty’s fears of wanting to go through a marriage due to the fact that marriages to me are about as exciting as the plague. That said, Krapopolis takes on it’s most Rick and Mortyesque plot yet featuring clones, mimics, and possibly some character advancement for Stupe who seems to be questioning her worth to Krapopolis’ empire. That last part is by far the most interesting and I’ll be curious to see if the producers of the show continue to walk down this path or if this just a one-off.

The Monica Padrick-written effort certainly had a who’s who of guests at the wedding that doesn’t ever happen including other gods and warlords that we don’t get to pal around with all that often. To be honest, I actually preferred the pre-marital banter to anything that was going on the original plot just because it seemed to allow the writers to get a good amount of jokes in before the big event was supposed to happen.

Of the two clone ideas, I think Hippo did the funnier of the two ideas. Featuring Cyrus to just be voiced and talk exactly like Ty seemed a bit unoriginal to me and would’ve preferred to see something a bit more fun like maybe Cyrus has a different voice actor. Moreover we don’t even get to hear any of the would-be bride’s notes on the entire situation at hand and instead focus on her double which I guess makes some sense but I still would’ve liked to have had SOME input from the woman who had to live under a towel for the entirety of the plot.

A lot of the dialogue this week was very well-written and probably the saving grace to the whole episode. But you would think with producers who have had experience in replacing original actors with crappy mimics (see: Rick and Morty season seven) that they would have upped the ante a bit more in that lone department. I’ve never thought of Richard Ayoade as that strong a voice actor in the first place for this series so to double him up and hope for the best comes across flat. Duncan Trussell is a bit more fun in his delivery as both Hippos and really his character saves the whole bit for me from a comical perspective.

Not enough I’m afraid.