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No need to rush to catch new season of Reno 911!
Contributor to The Shorthorn
Courtesy Art: Comedy Central
In the fifth season of “Reno 911!,” funny ha-ha quickly becomes
funny uh-oh. And uh-oh is exactly what you should be thinking, as the
season doesn’t start off as strong as you may have anticipated.
The premiere doesn’t introduce anything new or exciting except for
the introduction of Hottie’s Hot Wings sponsoring — and therefore
taking over — the Reno Sheriff’s Department, making their
cars pink and their uniforms pink-and-white and skimpy.
“It’s a wing-wing situation,” says Officer S. Jones
(Cedric Yarbrough), commenting on the amount of free hot wings the cops
are given throughout the episode.
The sponsorship quickly goes sour, as do the officers’ stomachs,
making the last 15 minutes more like an episode of “Terrance and
Phillip” on “South Park.” If it weren’t for the
funny one-liners from deputies Trudy Wiegel and Raineesha Williams (Kerri
Kenney and Niecy Nash respectively), “Reno” wouldn’t
be nearly as funny.
“I feel like I have been gastrointestinally raped,” Wiegel
says.
The end is the strongest point of this sitcom, but at that point you may
have already changed to another channel. If you do stick it out, there’s
a 50-50 chance you’d enjoy the sight of three Hooters-esque hot
wing girls dumping Deputy Travis Junior’s (Ben Garant) head into
a bucket of hot sauce as he screams, “It burns! It burns!”
Sadly, the sauce really was the only thing in this season premiere that
was even close to being hot.
As for the second episode, which premieres Sunday, if it weren’t
for a cameo by Paul Rudd, the show would be a recycled mesh of a bunch
of other comedies focusing on homosexual situations.
I ask you this, Reno: Where’s the shock value you seem to strive
for? Everything I saw has been done.
Some of it even by the Disney Channel.
“Reno 911!”
Starring: Thomas Lennon, Niecy Nash, Kerri Kenney,
Ben Garant
Airs: 9:30 p.m. Sundays on Comedy Central
Ranking: 3½ stars on a 1-5 scale
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