Review: The Great North  “Jude-night Run Adventure”

Overview

Wolf has to track down Judy before they miss their dinner at a fancy French restaurant. Meanwhile, Honeybee looks for a replacement diner to join them.

Our Take

In what looks to be the final time we get to see new episodes of The Great North on Sunday nights, this week’s episode written by Caroline Levich is perhaps the most Seinfeld-esque episode I’ve ever seen the show take on. A whole story where the common setting is a restaurant before Wolf and Honeybee have to split and take on different aspects of the appointment sounds very much in line with an Elaine vs Jerry type of a deal. The producers of the show should know plenty about restaurant humor given the Bob’s Burgers DNA, but never really from the vantage point as the guest which is what made this a fun change of pace episode.

I typically don’t care for Judy episodes as a whole mostly because I’m not a big Jenny Slate fan, but Will Forte is so good that his performance helped me put up with her. Also I love Honeybee episodes for some reason and this year they’ve been really good. Actor Dulce Sloan posts up another hilariously comedic performance that’s just cute as the dickens and I’m here for it.

Overall, a solid episode of The Great North. An almost like mirrored reflection of Bob’s Burgers where you can see all of the different contrasts contorted and construed to become its own thing which the franchise has absolutely become in the five seasons it has aired on FOX.