Season Review: The Jellies Season Two

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED!

This season of The Jellies very well could be the point that changes what we think we know about Adult Swim. Why? This is really the first series that has been officially placed underneath the onus that is AT&T. The result? See the score below. Why is the score lower than last season despite the fact that, on a whole, the show was probably better. Black South Park.

When this show was first being touted at Comic-Con years ago, Tyler the Creator had lamented the fact that there hasn’t been a proper black-produced answer to South Park. Welp, Adult Swim has officially failed its famous producer. At least with shows like Family Guy and South Park, when the networks came down on episodes and either censored or banned them altogether, you could eventually find episodes like say “201” as well as “Super Best Friends” and “200” on DVD. I doubt that’s going to happen here with The Jellies with “Walla Walla Wallabees B”. Adult Swim has since aired both versions of the episode but clearly have sided with the version that’s now available on the various places where you get Adult Swim onDemand with no real clear cut reason as to why Adult Swim made changes to the episode, to begin with. There are a bunch of theories. Everything from potential legal issues with the Wu-Tang Clan to my guy, Greg’s take surrounding the depiction of school shootings. In either case, Adult Swim has shown it’s new true post-AT&T colors by not sticking by their producers’ original vision and instead acting all corporate in the show’s delivery.

It’s a sad reality, and once we must deal with. In a season where The Jellies showcased a much-improved effort by shelving some of the more cliched mistakes from the show’s first season and instead focus on the more paradoxical and bat-shit crazy antics from the series’ Golf App take on the series. “Walla Walla Civil War“, “These Nuts”, and “Crash for Cash” definitely showcased a more absurd universe, one rife with pop culture stabs and both Debbie and Barry usurping their rightful claims in being not just recurring cast, but stars of the series much in the same way Randy Marsh did for the aforementioned Comedy Central legend.

That’s not to say The Jellies Season Two didn’t have its drawbacks. We already talked about the debacle concerning “Walla Walla Wallabees B” and I’m still trying to come to terms with how lame “My Friend Sheldon” was. In any event, The Jellies does enough right to warrant a third season, that I agree with. However, if Adult Swim is gonna act like a bunch of silly nannies, then I don’t want anything to do with it.