REVIEW: THE CLEVELAND SHOW “‘TIL DEAF”

A hunting accident leaves Cleveland partially deaf, so he decides to simply agree with all of Donna’s ideas. And Donna, who’s having a midlife crisis, decides to go back to school. Meanwhile, Roberta runs against Cleveland Jr. for student-body president.

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Donna’s in a mid-life crisis, and it sure isn’t going too well as she keeps coming up with all these ideas in trying to keep herself relevant and they are all too expensive or outrageous. However, when Cleveland comes back from a hunting trip we learn that he has suffered an accident that left him unable to hear.  He gets all the perks, like more ‘time’ with the wife, not having to listen to the kids, and more. As it turns out, Cleveland’s deafness was only temporary, but it was so much fun he decides to put in ear plugs to keep running with it, which causes him to miss out on his wife’s big announcement that she is moving to Miami to go back to school and get her college degree which is bought and paid for by her husband’s baseball card collection, but this means Cleveland’s gotta take care of the kids…which lasts all of 10 minutes to where he red-eye’s a flight to Miami to get his wife back,

Roberta wants to take down Junior’s abusive ways as class president, and as such wages her own campaign. So to get ahead in the polls, Junior enlists the help of Rallo to help fix the election. However, Rallo gets caught in a “Watergate”-esque situation and tells the school authorities who put him on to it. But, when the faculty try to award Roberta the presidency, she declines leaving no one left to run against Junior, thereby giving him the win.

There were a lot of funny spots in this week’s episodes, but Donna was unusually funny this weekend with her rampant breakdowns, her sexual threats to Cleveland, and then a clarinet-rendition of The Cleveland Show intro song as her husband danced with joy. Granted, the plot line for the “A”-story wasn’t all that original(The Simpsons have done that thing to death) but the jokes were there so it worked out. The “B”-story was also quite a bit cliche, but with Roberta running her campaign dressed up as Sarah Palin, it left us something somewhat comically to latch on to.

Score

7/10

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