Review: The Cleveland Show “Pins, Spins and Fins! ”(Shark Story Cut for Time)”

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Spoilers Below

Rallo and Donna are spending some quality time at the bowling alley, and the little guy is picking up strikes whilst playing bumper bowling. At first, Donna thinks her son’s ego is cute, but eventually she grows tired of all his name calling and as a result starts taking away the bumpers that Rallo was using to get the strikes in the first place. Afterwards, Rallo is convinced that he is being lied to about everything and Donna confirms just that, claiming that all kids suck at doing things, and parents lie to make they shut up faster and make them feel better.

Cleveland and his friends are nearing almost four years as friends and as a result decide to try and liven up their friendship. They aren’t sure how so they visit the local psych who tells them that they are indeed coming up on the typical time of whence dudes stop being friends with each other, but Stoolbend’s finest wants to hear none of that and instead opt to make sure they stay friends forever.  Eventually, the guys decide to go to an abandoned amusement park and check out some rides, but they get stuck on this really fast cyclone ride and are unable to get off of it. Later, Donna and the other wives get together to try and find out what happened to their hubbies, while Rallo sets off to find Cleveland on his own to prove that he isn’t a baby.

On separate occasions, Rallo and Donna both see Robert at a strip club and helps them each get to the amusement park, but not really. While there, Rallo tries to save Cleveland, but he gets caught in a snafu of his own. Donna shows up, talks down kids some more, and ends up setting the park on fire. Thankfully, the fire department shows up and puts out the fire, and Rallo and gets to ring a bell.

I gotta tell ya, I think Cleveland Show is starting to tell everyone that they have quite a bit of fight left in them when it comes to quality writing. Rallo’s plot has kinda been done before, but its pretty refreshing to hear Donna tell it like it is and let all the kids at home know the truth. I also thought it was novel that Cleveland was pretty much stuck in a ride and Donna had to go rescue him. But, the real laughs came with Robert I thought, and his clearly non-dad of the year antics that make me kind of want to see more of him.  I was however, looking for a little more out of the bowling part as I thought the guy running the place was awesome, but alas it wasn’t meant to be.

(8.0 out of 10)