Review: Imaginary Mary “Alice the Mole”

Nice to meet your mole.

Spoilers Below

This week, Alice becomes Ben’s new mole to get inside information on what Dora’s doing on a daily basis. Meanwhile, Andy and Bunny go to a pottery class where Andy tries to impress a girl that works there, but Bunny kind of bombs it and Andy freaks out.

Andy eventually apologizes to Bunny, and Alice learns of a co-ed camp out happening down the street. Alice tells Ben, and the two head to the camp and nearly storm the place, but Alice comes up with an alternate plan that allows Ben to legitimately ground Dora all the while keeping her relationship with Dora intact.

Our Take

The interaction between Alice and Mary was actually pretty good this week and looked a little more natural. Problem is, Mary continues to come off as a buzzing bee that’s not being swatted away, not like a character that should have her name on the show. There have actually been some episodes that have been way better with little to no Mary, and this one could’ve done just that and not one thing would’ve changed in the show.

I’m also not buying Ben and Alice’s intimacy anymore. What started out as a pretty interesting relationship dynamic has turned into cliche rom-com mess and Stephen Schneider (“Ben”) doesn’t really hold a candle all too well when compared to Jenna Elfman’s “Alice” whom routinely mops the floor with everyone she’s on camera with. And don’t get me started on the shit Andy plot that was clearly hammed together in like four minutes after the producers realized they didn’t have any more pages to fill with terribly written dialogue for an animated character that is completely nonsensical.