Last week’s Wilfred really hit home for me. Right now I too am in the predicament of
running through my savings while unemployed.
I have too much pride to ever ask for money from anyone. I have no problem lending money, I do it all
the time honestly, I just never want to have people worry about when I will pay
them back. Thankfully, I have not gotten
in a car accident & still have enough money to get sloshed on pricey
booze. This week on Wilfred we decide to work
through our anger and we also learn how keeping it pent up can only make it worse.
We open to Ryan dreaming about his old dog Sneakers but are
immediately cut off by his phone going off and on the other end his sister is complaining that he isn’t at her house waiting for a delivery for a party she
is hosting at said house for her boss.
Ryan immediately jumps into action trying to get over there as fast as he can and
he runs into Wilfred in the living room who just as quickly lays down the proverb
of the week, anger. We also find out in our opening that Ryan was able to pay off the problematic 5k of last week due to his sister
and that is the reason why he is doing his best to bottle up his problems and not blow up at
her. It turns out as we progress through the episode and while Wilfred digs through Ryan's possessions that Ryan has been dreaming about his old dog Sneakers and that Ryan
blames himself for Sneakers death.
Sadly, dogs being sensitive to the supernatural and all, Wilfred gets possessed by
Sneakers and things start to get wild when Sneakers/Wilfred tells Ryan that it
was his sister Kristen who left the gate open to the pool that led to Sneakers
drowning.
What works so great on Wilfred is the seamless move from
hilarious one liners to a well outlined plot.
This week we get the nice emotional plot between Ryan & Kristen but
we also get some hilarious gags from Jason Gann as Wilfred. We go from some very creepy high pitched
voice action when he is possessed by Sneakers to the aftermath of projectile vomit
from a stomach ache caused by the possession. What really is
nice is to see the care taken to make the projectile vomit really project. It’s something that can lack in live
television with the hand by the mouth action and as long as it’s flowing it
works and the sad part about live tv is that it sometimes just dribbles
out. Another stand out of Wilfred is the
guest stars that we have been getting on a now pretty constant basis. Most sitcoms try not to rely too much on
having a guest actor or actress on every week because it can sometimes just
take over the whole episode by who is on and not what the plot is about. While times it has seemed like that with Ed
Helms it really has not failed since then; especially with our previous
episodes guest, Jane Kaczmarek aka the mom from Malcolm in the Middle. This week we were able to be treated to the
always awesome Richard Alpert… I mean, Nestor Carbonell of Lost fame and most
recently playing the mayor of Gotham City.
While the tomfoolery and general zaniness is not as high as
usual in Anger we are greeted with some great back story to our
characters. This works great towards the
fact that Wilfred has been renewed for a second season and its always better to
give our characters a bit more depth early on if we are going to be seeing them
often like Kristen. Even if Wilfred
still thinks she is a bitch we can know that there is at the least some decency
in her somewhere and we were able to get it out through some aggressive behavior.
Grade: B-
Grade: B-
Ed. Side Note:
I am a sucker for good ol’ projectile vomit. It cracks me up every time.
“The glowing orb of gayness is more believable than that.”
I don’t know much about dogs and their breeds, I am a cat
person & I love my Norwegian Skraag Cat dearly, but I am glad to know that
a Jack Russell is what Eddy is on Frasier.
Bear’s hand taped to the viewfinder of the Ouija board.
I kind of missed the multiple end skits of Ryan &
Wilfred getting high but it was a pretty touching ending.
“Maybe we should punch her tits off.”
