He's not a hermit chef!
What is it? ...it's Andi Mack, I'm too drunk to do this right now you know what this show is....
I've pretty much skipped over the vast, vast majority of S2 because...the show really, really went downhill at that point, deal with it. But now that the show is ramping up towards the end, I'll have to admit, it's really returned to form. I've seen most of S3 at this point (just skipping the very beginning) and while certain points...still have rough spots it's back to being the show I fell in love with waaaaay back in 2017 (although it's crazy that this show'll only be putting out new premiere episodes for comfortably well within a three calendar year span...Girl Meets World did it over four albeit only barely and then only by cheating...but still not nearly cheating as badly as Wizards of Waverly Place which managed to sneak exactly one episode into calendar year 2012 for a total of 6...and if you want to cheat even more, 7 consecutive calendar years thanks to the 2013 Alex vs. Alex special...and Austin and Ally not only managed to span 6 consecutive calendar years but Jessie, Good Luck Charlie and Liv and Maddie did 5...man, it does kinda make me feel Andi Mack, the one show that was clearly meant to be the network's tentpole from the get-go, really did end up getting a screwjob in the end, but I really digress).
A Moving Day is, Bee-Tee-Dubs, the penultimate episode of the entire series. Again, it's crazy to think...nope, not going to repeat that rant I just got finished with again. But at the very least they're putting to a close one important plot thread.
Yup that's right, spoiler alert: Bex and Brody actually get married in this episode, for real.
Most of the episode is either buildup to this moment, or just complete and total filler or...really, and strangely, manages to be both, but...while they are more or less throw-away in the grander scheme of things they don't feel like a waste of the viewer's time. That said it's...really hard to discern which is the "main" plot without watching all the way through and understanding how both subplots fit in to the big spoiler-laden reveal...which I just spoiled for you in the above single-line paragraph but oh well, I'm betting you've already seen this episode by now anyway.
The "main" plot-I-guess is about Bex "winning" an exclusive dinner with a celebrity chef and the whole family (minus a certain someone, we'll get to that one in the Extra Thoughts part) loads up in the car and...yeah the vast, vast majority of it is just Cece complaining nonstop about everything. That's pretty much it. You can pretty much just skip to the main event here.
But before that we also have a second plot with Buffy, Cyrus and Jonah helping Jonah's mom move stuff, and Cyrus finds a big pile of exercise tapes he recognizes because the content of those tapes apparently had been viral on the Internet for a good while now, and we find out the exercise lady in those tapes is Jonah's mom.
...that's pretty much it, too.
I can't even say the freakin' wedding itself has a lot going for it because...not a lot happens there, either. Yes it's the usual trapping of a wedding...well, not quite. It's a very spartan wedding by design and desire, but most of the actual screen time ends up being ceremonious and...let's face it, filler.
This whole big episode is just one giant case of filler, even despite the fact that it has one of what should be the most monumental events of the entire show occurring in it, and is the show's entire penultimate episode no less.
And there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
For me it was a very fun episode to watch and if it had been "bigger" or especially "heavier" I don't think I would've enjoyed it as much. One of my big complaints of S2 was that it was trying to make every single damn moment literally A Moment(TM) to the point where they were pretty much stumbling all on top of themselves. Like how Buffy finally has her big chance to prove herself to the rest of the basketball team and...it runs headlong into her mom coming back from the Army (or whatever, sure it's the Army). Literally the entire show comes to a dead stop - I mean it, you can see the exact frame it happens, I swear - so that Owe can have this big Moment-Ontop-of-Moments(TM). Or Buffy having to move away...only for her to move right back literally in the same damn episode.
You know this type of shit seems to happen to Buffy a lot, I've noticed.
But this season's seen massive improvement regarding that Moments Management(TM - and that's my trademark I'm patenting a system on how to write good dramatic middle school sitcoms) - we've seen Jonah dump Amber, date a cute deaf girl and then get schooled on how much of a tool he is, then he dates Amber again and even though he breaks up with her again Amber also does end up schooling Jonah on what kind of a tool he is too. We've seen Cyrus in a relationship that seems to be budding towards boyfriend status, we've seen Buffy in a relationship that seems to be budding towards boyfriend status. And of course the whole will-they-won't-they marriage saga which came to a definitive conclusion this episode.
But my point is, they've toned down those damn moments by a lot, with this episode being an extreme example (a single moment surrounded by, again, pretty much filler). But it was just really, really nice seeing these crazy kids go on one of those wacky adventures even if it was pretty mundane and nothing really happened before the wedding.
Beats dropping the whole damn game because they can't wait for half-time for your mom to show up, that's for sure.
Episode Grade: A-.
Episode MVP: I'll have to give it to Asher Angel because he does do a really good serious deadpan, why not.
Extra Thoughts
- well if I'm making a new post it must be a holiday so...Happy National Ice Cream Day. I hope you went out to Cold Stone and got that BoGo offer.
- yeah the whole, um, "Ham" situation. This is ancient news by now but it goes to show how one guy can really ruin a show and how much a show has to scramble to get it together. I've heard that the scenes they cut out from all episodes that had been produced up to that point were almost negligible, go figure, and likewise for most of the episodes yet to air, but they absolutely butchered the episode that was set next to air right after the news broke out. I've discussed it on social media but I really wish they just put a hard hiatus on airing the episodes and actually bothered to go back and do their best to refilm new scenes.
- I certainly have thoughts about Raven's Home, Amphibia, and after nearly a year after the fact I just finished binging Nickelodeon's I Am Frankie S2 but...those really deserve their own posts. Maybe...whatever the next holiday is.
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