Review: Dicktown “The Mystery of the Strawberry Patch” and “The Mystery of the Adventures of Pon-Pon”

Overview

The Mystery of the Strawberry Patch

Farmer Rigsbee hires John and David to shut down the strawberry patch. Turns out, the local youth leaves behind all sorts of sex-related trash which causes issues with the berries. We come to find out that people aren’t making love in the patch, rather, they are doing so in hot-air balloons and then dropping off condoms in the patch which happens to be flown over. Later, John goes on a picnic date and gets a visit from a mystery stalker.

The Mystery of the Adventures of Pon-Pon

Pon-Pon is a Tin-Tin ripoff that is also the new investigative competition for John and David. To prove their worth, the duo takes part in a Game Night-like investigation of a fake crime. The mystery is solved but John thinks there is a greater investigation more worthy of his talents and attempts to save face with the party attendees by revealing who Pon-Pon really is. Because of the victory, all of John and David’s cases are given to Pon-Pon however we still get a clue from the mystery stalker.

Our Take

More tales of debauchery problem solving from our favorite dicks. This week the show tests Archer in terms of more sensual story lines, whether it was in the love-making strawberry patch or the prying Pon-Pon snooping in on ladies and their private time. The latter featured a quick sequence indicative of The Adventures of Tin-Tin that was a lot of fun and I only with the show had made the whole episode in the exact same aesthetic, similar to what they did last week with the Animal Crossing bit because it was really well done. It’s time to start recognizing Floyd County as one of the more talented studios in the country, regularly shown on Archer, but with fewer episode counts of the long-running FXX series, might be more difficult to spot.

I’m getting increasingly invested in the motorcycle lady bit, however, I think she could’ve been a good B-plot character for 22-minute episodes so we can kind of see more of what the hell she wants. Almost like a Breaking Bad where you get to see all parts of a story before they come together. We also got a Tucker cameo, the first (I think?) in four quarter-hours, which is interesting, because I thought we were going to see a lot more of him this season. In any event, the show appears to be getting comfortable, but a tad complacent. I want to see a bit more variety in the characters moving forward and I want to understand if this bit with the motorcycle villain is going anywhere.