Review: China IL ”Best Face Forward”

Spoilers Below

Frank decides to try stand-up, but his manager Baby Cakes convinces the novice performer to try an old-hat trick where he takes off his pants and lets his ass do the talking…literally. Frank’s ass becomes a semi-professional stand-up comedian and at first he’s pretty legit because it gains quite a following and whatnot, but eventually, it becomes possessive of Frank and threatens to shut him down for good.

Meanwhile, Steve’s gotta deal with dual issues of trust. On one-hand, he tells Pony a secret about Matt Attack and Flip-Flop, but she ends up getting more annoyed about the fact that Matt would tell Steve this secret and not tell her due to the fact that she’s a loudmouth. Steve’s also gotta deal with the fact that after discovering the idea that calling other white guys ‘brother’ gets you all sorts of perks, you have to repay those perks which comes to a head when a police officer asks Steve to kill his wife.

Eventually, Baby Cakes grows tired of Frank’s ass and does research at the library to learn that there is indeed an evil spirit inside of Frank and he has to get it out of him….right after the HBO special. Actually, it’s mid-way through where Baby Cakes takes on the mantra of the ”Assorcist” and plunges a cross in Frank’s asshole which causes the evil spirit of Jerry Seinfeld to escape.

Steve, on the other hand, doesn’t get that lucky. He kind of helps that cop kills his wife in cold blood, but when he meets Pony down at the station to finally get Matt to tell her the big secret, Matt stays quiet, but Steve tells the officers about the murder and swears off anymore ‘bro’ activity.

Our Take

We get a slightly more normal episode of China IL as compared to last week’s, but this show is anything but…butts. Yea, Frank’s butt really took on a character of its own and it was hysterical and I actually had the voice pegged as Aziz Ansari the whole time, but when I saw the credits that proved not to be the case. Jerry Seinfeld being forced out of an asshole is probably just as funny as U2’s Bono is a turd on South Park, and fans still talk about that episode.

Pony got a little TOO annoying for me during Steve’s plot, but I like the fact that Matt Attack is getting more integrated with the show. Flip Flop leaving very well could be the end of his routine on China IL, but Brad Neely and Co. are awesome at introducing a consistent flow of new characters. And that’s good because I love a lot of the different settings that the show has as well. The airport, the comedy club, the cafeteria, all potential breeding grounds for new faces even while I’m having tons of fun with the old ones.