Review: Crash and Bernstein ‘Crashlemania’

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Crash and Bernstein love wrasslin’ so they decide to tryout for the school wrestling team with Pesto. Turns out,Wyatt is pretty good, but Crash is trying to turn school wrestling into the stuff he sees on TV, but it ain’t working. As a result, Coach Urkhart gets so fed up, he threatens that if Crash doesn’t straighten up, both him AND Wyatt are off the team. That’s easier said than done, because Crash goes all over the place all the while giving people a hard time, busting through walls, cutting promos, and eventually getting Wyatt DQ’d from his first match and thrown off the team. As luck would have it, Mr. Poulos and the Coach used to be a wrasslin’ tag-team that split up because the latter stole Poulos’ move. But, given his respect for his old partner, Urkhart agrees to let Wyatt back on the team if he can defeat his two best wrestlers. On the day of the match, all hell breaks loose and Poulos and Urkhart just go at it anyway, but all is well because Wyatt gets back on the team.

Meanwhile, Cloe is going undercover on the school’s cheer squad where Amanda is the captain. Turns out, Cleo is treating the squad all wrong, because being a part of the cheer leading squad gets her a bunch of kick-ass perks that she wouldn’t ordinarily get. Unfortunately for her, a deadline has to be met, and an article gets published in the paper that totally demoralizes cheer and it gets her thrown off the squad courtesy of her sister.

Being a former wrestler (and wrassler) I COULD tear apart all of the inaccuracies associated with the sport of wrestling as presented on the show. Anything from incorrect gear being worn, to the fact that there is no such thing as tag-team school wrestling I could probably bring up, but I won’t. Instead I’ll just say that Crash and Bernstein was a lot of fun tonight, and Crash was hysterical. From smashing through walls, gluing lockers, and elaborate entrances to the mat, Crash was all over the place causing beautiful havoc. However, the second plot with the cheer squad, although funny, felt short, poorly written, and probably not needed. Oana Gregory really has been improving quite a bit as an actress and she works really well with Landry and it was rather refreshing that the two sisters didn’t get along near the end showing that neither have to play off of Crash to put on a good time.

(8 out of 10)