While
these two episodes first aired on back-to-back Mondays, I’ve decided to put
them together to keep my reviews to half hour blocks. (Although there is one stray episode coming
after this, so I might have to take this all back sooner than later)
The
first of these two new episodes has Clarence create his own money in
school. As you can expect, this comes
with its heights of popularity and then lows of, well, wishing he had never
made his own currency. It’s pretty
much what would happen if anyone tried to start distributing their own money,
only it’s being done by Clarence and he is also introducing us to some new
characters on his show.
My
favorite part of this episode- which might so far be taking its grandest stand
yet- is that in making Clarence’s money system seem invalid, it also kind of
goes forth and nulls the system of stars the teacher actually gives out for
good behavior or whatever.
I’m not
one to ever really say much good about the schooling system in general, but
really, when you have a system in place designed to grade children (A to F, no
E for some reason) anything on top of that to reward those who are better at
sucking up is just plain ridiculous.
In what
would officially be the sixth episode of “Clarence”, we hit a sort of down
patch. I did enjoy this episode, but it
just wasn’t as funny as the previous episodes have been. Clarence pretty much gets peer pressured into
taking a girl out as his girlfriend and as you can imagine it goes quite
awkwardly until they both realize they don’t know what they’re doing and call
the whole thing off.
Once
again though, it proves to be the little details leading up to the otherwise
simplistic plot which helps to make this show stand out. When Clarence needs help with how to go on a
date, who does he turn to? Why, to Sumo
of course! On top of that, they take a trip
to a local thrift store to get Clarence for the date which is pretty funny as
well.
I’m
only saying that this was the worst episode of “Clarence” thus far because it
has such tough competition and because I do expect so much more from this
show. There are only three cartoon
shows currently airing new episodes that I still watch, and “Clarence” is one
of them.
So this might not be my
favorite episode but it still stacks up there as being better than a lot of
other animated series I’d really rather not watch. (Oh, and when I say “three”, I mean airing
in real time, as I still watch that Fox Animation Domination Block on Netflix
and I totally think “Bob’s Burgers” is boss, though not in my three)
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