Review: The Jellies “These Nuts” ;”Crash for Cash”

Deez nuts.

Overview (Spoilers Below)

This week’s episode of The Jellies sees Walla Walla overrun with peanuts trying to take over in every facet of livelihood. At first, it’s not all that bad. Barry gets a promotion which makes Debbie happy because she believes this should give her additional prosperity. Turns out, these peanuts are all homicidal and George Washington (the) Carver has to help take ’em down.

In the next episode, Debbie befriends a lawyer that we eventually find out is corrupt and makes his cash off of insurance scams. At first, Debbie’s ok with breaking the law, but when “Big Daddy” attempts to convince her to kill her sexually repressed husband, she declines and instead helps foil the crooked the jerk lawyer once and for all.

Our Take

There’s definitely a few shifts going on with The Jellies in the show’s second season. For starters, “Cornell” has more or less been turned into a “B” character in favor of his parents almost in the same way that the South Park adults have essentially taken away half of the show from the children. Barry is a bunch crazier than seasons’ past and even when Debbie isn’t the focal point of a plot, like in “These Nuts”, she throws comedy BOMBS that explode and make me even have to pause the show because I’m laughing so hard I’m afraid that I’m going to miss something. The show continues it’s sarcastic Carl Jones-influenced satire of current black-produced pop culture and the show has found it’s evil bent that I had been looking for in the show’s first season.

In terms of production, the slow-motion death scenes in the first episode were hilarious while the production on the flashback scenes, and the amount of attention to detail given, certainly doesn’t go unnoticed. The show’s writing has begun to truly embrace a more weird convention, not unlike Adult Swim of yesteryears like Aqua Teen or Squidbillies, but that doesn’t mean we get any less of Phil LaMarr because he’s still all over the show. When you have someone as good as Phil, you don’t have to change a damn thing.  I do wish some of the musical composition was a little more to the tune of the stuff you’d hear from Tyler the Creator/Odd Future so as to really encapsulate Tyler’s thumbprints, but that’s a small gripe for an otherwise super funny show that’s just starting to find a groove.