Review: Yolo: Rainbow Trinity “Our Lovely Jubbly, Wovley, Bubbly, Zubbly, Lovely, Bubbly Wubbly Tasmania “

Overview

Admittedly me thinking this was a WB-owned animated series that was going to have an episode on the island of Tasmania would’ve seen a crossover with the legendary Looney Toons character the Tasmanian Devil, but that doesn’t happy this week. Instead, this week’s art design is all about entrails and deities that may have left feces in a corner and Rachel’s sick ass swim trunks (seriously, I want a pair).

Admittedly the plot is slightly derivative as we’ve seen a number of animated series see their main characters get stuck on islands before and I was a bit confused by the scene where blood splatter was able to turn inanimate objects to life though tested on a cactus which isn’t an inanimate object. We didn’t get much time with those cool powers anyway which I blame on the amount of exposition that had to happen.

Continuing my possibly harsh critique of the art-style we also don’t get as much variety in the aesthetic as we often do for Cusack-written series and instead everything felt a bit more ordinary. Fortunately this gets made up for in the dialogue department especially with the island denizens who start things off being a bit more gracious and in only a matter of minutes end up being condescending and possibly derivative of Hollywood executive producers who like to put notes on everything and make you rewrite shit a bunch of times like these people have a fucking clue of what’s in a good series or not.

Overall, a solid episode of Yolo which is to say isn’t the way I like my Yolo where instead I prefer when things are a bit more off-kilter and wrong. The witty dialogue helps a lot here, though I wonder what this specific episode could’ve done with a longer runtime.