Review: It’s Pony “Hot Tub Brine Machine; The Secret Life of Pony”

Overview

“Hot Tub Brine Machine”

When Annie tells Pony he needs to wait 30 minutes before they can get ice cream, he decides he’ll pickle himself to travel forward in time. When he comes out of the brine, he thinks that decades have passed.

“The Secret Life of Pony”

When Pony seems to be lying about what he does while Annie’s in school, she suspects he’s living a secret life.

Our Take

For the first episode, much of the humor felt like it was parodying the most recent time travel comedies. In particular “Hot Tub Time Machine” and the Seth Rogen movie, “An American Pickle” when Pony poorly assumes a Pickle barrel full of Brine is capable of preserving you long enough to be in the future. Hilariously this narrative is further perpetuated due to a series of comedic mishaps with a video Pony sends to Annie’s phone, and Annie not knowing about it due to some poorly timed phone calls which become the most egregiously contrived aspect of this episode, while having a funny reveal at the end that makes a story told from earlier, come full circle…

As for the other one, the humor comes from secrets Pony has of his own which raises suspicion on Annie’s end regarding some odd behavior that Pony does. With one of the dumbest yet biggest reveals of something hilariously elaborate and weird in recent memory but it did give me a light chuckle at least.

Overall, both episodes as usual serve to make Pony the driving force of chaos on a consistent level. The first heavily references movies while a series of contrived happenings keep the proceedings from being shorter than they should as all of this could’ve been avoided if Annie watched and finished the video at least after her phone calls with her friend in regards to meeting at an Ice Cream place. While the other episode was comical in the elaborate nature built around the reveal and the reasoning behind Pony’s suspicious actions which had somewhat of a payoff in the end.