Review: Dicktown “The Mystery of the Missing Pimento Cheese Recipe and the Mystery of Mammal Island”

Overview

The Mystery of the Missing Pimento Cheese Recipe

A local restaurant has misplaced their recipe for pimento cheese and there is only one fucking duo that can be called in to fix this…John and David. A local camera crew helps document the groundbreaking case all-the-while introducing the duo to it’s viewers via a local broadcast network Channel 57. John and David go undercover to crack the case but we’re also introduced to a new potential arch-nemesis.

The Mystery of Mammal Island

Mammal Island is actually an Animal Crossing-like video game and both John and David go undercover as mammals to crack a case.  Turns out two players invested all of their savings into golden parsnip that gets stolen and gives us our “to-do”. David and John crack the case but learn that the real trouble is on the outside. 

Our Take

The Cake spin-off everyone was asking for is here and the first two episodes of the show’s second season are just as jam-packed with nonsense cases as one could dream. Right off the bat we get a pseudo-crossover with Animal Crossing bit which, if you are like me and don’t understand Animal Crossing, probably features a bunch of jokes that go over one’s head, but is still pretty hilarious. As a deli connoisseur, the pimento cheese case was far more interesting to me.

That said , I do wonder if Dicktown would have been a better show if given one episode for a full 22-minutes. That’s not to say the current iteration is bad, but we didn’t even get a chance to see a few of the other ancillary characters that were introduced in the show’s opening credits. I would like to see the writers, David and John, maybe add a few more voices that can really help the franchise stretch it’s legs and give us some different flavors of laughs.  Even the more legendary quarter-hours like Beavis and Butt-Head, Regular Show, etc featured a wide cast that can help keep the show fresh and with good variety.

In any event, a solid first week, and I’m looking forward to more Dick…town.