Review: Dream Corp LLC “Woomba”

Don’t eat couch cushions. Really, don’t.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

Patient 6 comes in for help with a unique problem, she’s can’t stop eating delicious, delicious couch cushions and needs to stop. Not only because eating furniture is weird and unhealthy, but because she’s a good deal pregnant too.

Dr. Roberts and the gang get down to figuring out her problem and quickly realizes her condition is a nervous one having to do with her unborn child. Meanwhile, Randy has a cyst on his neck that he wants to nurse and let grow, because Randy, for some odd reason, loves cysts.

As Randy’s cysts gets bigger and bigger, Patient 6 goes deeper and deeper into her dream, which quickly twists into a nightmare. Patient 6 recovers as best she can, and ends up speaking with a goddess version of her own mother inside of a giant lotus flower. Through their discussion and Dr. Roberts’s guidance, Patient 6 is able to find peace with her pregnancy and remedy her troubles. But, at the same time, in a moment of bodily horror, Randy pops his now-enormous cyst, which hatches into a swarm of locusts which fly around the room. Really creepy, really gross.

Our Take:

The fifth episode of the second season of Dream Corp LLC is upon us, and once again, we’re treated to a buffet of psychedelic dream comedy both striking and hilarious. I’ve enjoyed every episode of Dream Corp in this season so far, but this one stuck out as an especially good time. Couch cushions have never seemed tastier.

This episode moves into some weird territory here, focusing on a woman who would be a fitting subject for an episode of “My strange addiction.” But no topic is off limits for Dream Corp, after all, they can’t all be about getting over lost love and childhood anxieties. Gotta throw some of the weird ones in there, too. But, of course, what makes the plot of this episode so compelling is how well the episode elevates such a ludicrous problem and treats it somewhat seriously. It’s all fun and games until Dr. Roberts gets his act together and proves that dream therapy might not be such a bad idea. Well, at least until he starts putting ads for gourmet popcorn and t-shirts in your face.

Randy gets up to some weird business this episode, which, as a good B-story should, gives us a break from the strangeness of the A-story…by making us bear witness to something even stranger. Randy, as always, works as the episode’s slobbish every-man to hilarious effect. His cyst popping escapade is nothing short of disgusting, but it works in its own bizarre way. One shouldn’t be surprised be this since everything about this show is bizarre, but it’s nice to be surprised by the lengths that Dream Corp will go to keep its audience surprised.

Dream Corp is really pushing the envelope of late night programming, and that’s really saying something since Adult Swim has had quite the track record of amazing shows on its lineup. Yet, despite its competition, Dream Corp manages to stand out. Its screwball mix of comedy and psychology makes for a particularly potent hallucinogenic cocktail. I really enjoyed this episode for Patient 6’s story, along with Dr. Roberts, who continues to be the horsepower engine of comedy that generates the laughs keeping this crazy train rolling. With Dream Corp releasing its episode two at a time, there is another episode waiting for this week as well. It looks like Dream Corp LLC will keep finding ways to push the envelope on television.