You got snot dog all over my shoe.
What is it? 24-ish minute cartoon of Henry Danger, blah blah blah.
Where did it air? The Dan Schneider Network, blah blah blah.
Who stars in it? Jace Norman who's quickly in danger of becoming the next Daniella Monet, i.e. he's gonna practically live in a Nick studio, blah blah blah
Who are we reviewing this? blah blah blah
Ok, one thing I think we can all agree on is that with each new episode, Kid Danger just gets fuckin' weirder.
These two episodes...just reach a new Nirvana of weirdness. The likes I haven't even seen Game Shakers or parent show Henry Danger reach. Back in the iCarly and VicTORious days...aw fuck it, iCarly and VicTORious got pretty fucking weird too. Zoey101 also had parts where it just felt...alienatingly weird, and effect sometimes enhanced by its single-cam format. Drake & Josh looks like CBS Sunday Morning compared to all of these shows, at least at certain points. But at least iCarly and VicTORious...well, their weirdness looks downright logical in comparison to what we just saw last night. There's definitely a progression in weirdness the later the Schneider show tends to be, and I guess it's all coming to a head on Kid Danger.
If Mike joins me for this one, I feel confident in predicting him saying something along the lines of this show suffering exactly what went wrong with Family Guy in its worst seasons. Non-sequiturs abound to the point where now the plot itself might as well be one.
At this point, it's less animated Henry Danger, and more flash-animated Robot Chicken. At the very least, it definitely feels more at home on [adult swim] than on actual Nickelodeon.
And that's not necessarily a good thing, especially since I think Robot Chicken's best years were a long, long time ago (and...ugh, [adult swim]'s domestically-produced original comedies in general).
Episode Grade: C-. It had some good jokes here and there, but the weirdness this series is delving into is outright distracting. And it's not even a well-done weirdness like in...oh I dunno...Breaking Bad? Name a show here guys. Or even an unintentionally well-done weirdness like The Room. It's just...an incredibly cheap and quick weirdness like...well, like exactly all that I find meh-tastic about modern domestically-produced original [adult swim]. But it's not so bad that I feel it should start going into D territory, where it starts to truly be no longer worth watching.
Episode MVP: The guy who plays Schwoz because he spent most of an episode not talking.
Extra Thoughts:
- Yeah, not much to say about this one so it's being demoted to mini-review status.
- Spongey commented on the last one that the animation looks cheap and...well, there's no disagreement there. There's a huge difference between being able to do practically unlimited things with animation, like sending Kid Danger and Captain Man into space where they can float around as much as they want, and actually having an animation budget where...well, the show looks like this. It reminds me of, again, Family Guy at its absolute cheapest.
- Also according to my programming guide it's just S1E3, the individual halves apparently don't get their own production number, so...yeah.
At least with Family Guy, it took them a few seasons to get to this point. This is.......what happens when the only animated show you've ever watched is Family Guy.
It's funny you mention that show because when I was watching "Texas Weiners," I kept thinking how much it reminded me of Family Guy. Like that David Lee Roth joke, which just seemed like the kind of thing they threw in there for the sake of making a reference. Actually, this show is really reference-heavy, which is weird compared to other shows that live in their own reality away from that stuff. I don't know how entertaining this show can be if they're trying to imitate a show that's been past its prime for years.
Also, whatever goodwill this show could have potentially built up was ruined by that snot dog joke. Seriously, that was awful. I'm not a big fan of gross-out humor in the first place, so you really have to try hard to make that work.
Henry and Ray are a lot dumber in the cartoon version. I get that it's animated, but you don't have to make the characters parodies of themselves.
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