Let me start this post by saying I loves me some Adult Swim. With very few exceptions (12 Oz. Mouse, Assy McGee, Xavier: Renegade Angel) I find most of what they put out to be badass. I especially enjoyed Sealab 2021 mainly due to the excellent writing on the series. The same creative team, which wrote Sealab, Adam Reed and Matt Thompson, created and writes Frisky Dingo and the only thing that is different is that Frisky Dingo is a whole lot better.
The second season finds Xander Crews and evil villain Killface locked in a life or death struggle to . . . become the next President of the United States. Excellent satire is made of almost every aspect of recent real campaigns. Everything from their over reliance on spurious polling data, the absurdity of political punditry and the role of race in modern elections has a funny parallel in the Frisky Dingoverse. The twelve episodes of season two which originally aired from 10-16-06 to 3-23-08 skewer the modern electoral process while simultaneously being really dumb in a really smart way. Or is that really smart in a dumb way?
I don’t know.
I do know that Frisky Dingo season Two is as funny a show as I’ve seen in a long time and I only have a few complaints about the DVD. The first gripe is that there are only twelve episodes. This amount more than justifies buying the disk, but at eleven minutes per episode they are like crack. A group of us watched all of them in one go. We could not stop.
Gripe two is that the special features were limited to an Xtacles skit and a campaign ad by Killface. The Xtacles are Xander Crews army of guys who everyone thinks are robots due to their robot armor. In this skit they have a confrontation with Mr. Ford whose house they have rammed with their Helicarrier. It is a funny skit and I wanted more of them. The campaign ad is really just a funny ad for the DVD.
So to sum up. Frisky Dingo Season two. Funny. No, very effing funny.
Boosh!
You should buy this DVD if:
Everyone needs a copy of this DVD in his or her permanent collection.
You should rent this DVD if:
You are poor.
If you are interested in buying this DVD here is a link to Amazon where you can get it at a reasonable price:
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