Review: Mike Tyson Mysteries: “Mystery on Wall Street”

This shit? This is how shows get canceled.

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Mike listens to a mystery told by a Wall Street banker named David (no relation to last week’s David with the dead wife), who tells him about how there seems to be some blatant manipulation of certain stocks that his company wants and that there could be greater problems on the whole market. After explaining a bit about the situation, Mike his team outside to tell them that he didn’t understand a word, so they bail.

Taking a car back to the airport, they run into the limo driver from the Charlie Rose episode last season, who gives them a new mystery: the child of the family he rented a house to has apparently been kidnapped by a phantasm and taken to the end of the universe, so the team needs to get him back…or whatever it’ll take to get them to start paying rent again. Not that it matters because Mike decides to bail on this one too and return to the Wall Street guys.

Back at the building, Mike realizes mid-lecture that he made the totally wrong call and should have gone with the phantasm mystery, so…yeah, bail again. Only this time, who should they end up running into but the family’s kid, Raji, being instructed by the phantasm to purchase the shares from other companies so the spirit can get enough funds to purchase a house at the end of the universe. What the phantasm doesn’t know, as he explains to the bankers and the Mystery Team, is that Raji bought all those stocks in his name, sniping the house from the phantasm and forcing him to go live in the old mildew-y house the limo driver owned.

Despite my caption choice (which is a quote from the episode!), this was actually a pretty tightly knit episode. Mike’s tendency to bail on mysteries is something that’s come up a couple times previously this season, (assuming he doesn’t just completely forget about it) so I guess the commercial for this episode made me think there’d be some examination or explanation for that. But this show loves to mess with my expectations, so what we have instead is showing that bailing multiple times actually leads to solving multiple mysteries at once! Remember that when you have an extra challenging test, quiz, or project to deal with because completely dropping it might actually get it done quicker and better!

There were also the minor gags sprinkled in that really enhanced the larger jokes, like Mike’s awkward smile and wave to signal him intending to leave, Pigeon reacting audibly to an audio book about Benghazi, and the limo driver’s foul stories about his ex. Nothing, particularly about these, stand out, but I just thought they were worth bringing up.

But alas, all…I wanna say good(?) things must come to an end. Next week, we reach the season finale (a lot sooner than I expected, considering the last season was double this one’s length) for a trip to the windy city: San Francisco!