"Brickleberry" was exactly what I was expecting from a producer like comedian Daniel Tosh.
The season premiere of the cartoon show, “Welcome to Brickleberry,” began with an introduction to the average daily lifestyles of the local wildlife. That is, the bears, deer, birds and everything between getting it on in a number of most likely inaccurate sex positions.
The writers definitely centered in on its target audience from the get go — if you don’t laugh at awkward animal sex, "Brickleberry" isn’t the show for you.
The show is about an incompetent team of park rangers and their pet bear cub (voiced by Tosh) at the Brickleberry National Park. The first episode was centered around two of the characters competing for ranger of the month, but really it was more of an introduction to each of the characters and their personal ridiculousness.
There’s Steve, the idiot main character, who is like an asshole Fry (from "Futurama"), except Steve kills more things with his stupidity. Denzel, the obviously token black character, who is afraid of the woods and sexually attracted to elderly women. Connie, who sounds like she took too many beaver tranquilizers as a baby and has a growling vagina. Ethel, the newcomer to the group, who is a great park ranger unless she drinks. Then she gives tours pantsless and attempts to drunk-pilot helicopters. Woody, the head ranger, who is a war veteran who was traumatized and suicidal until Malloy came along. Which leaves Malloy, the talking brown bear cub who is basically just Daniel Tosh.
The episode made it clear that Brickleberry is going to create entirely its own humor, which may or may not be a bad thing. It won’t be directly competing with the more successful cartoon shows — "South Park," "Family Guy" and "The Simpsons" — which focus on satirizing real life situations or people and be hilarious doing so.
By its own humor, I mean Brickleberry will be using the Tosh-like, be-offensive-to-everybody-so-nobody-cares comedy style. Shows such as "South Park" tend to focus on one major event or person to satire, with maybe a few smaller references on the side. Brickleberry packed almost every offensive joke they could think of into one episode.
In the season premiere there were jokes about handicapped kids, old people, masturbation, black people, Asian people, Latino people, rednecks, AIDS, abortions, stalking, BDSM, animal sex/rape/suicide/murder, alcoholism and probably a few others I forgot.
The only subject I really noticed that was missing was religion, but I’m sure that’s going to be big in episodes to come.
The funny parts of the show didn’t come directly from the story, but more from the violent things the characters or animals did. Overall, it wasn’t a fantastic show that brought anything incredibly new to Comedy Central, and it isn’t for certain going to be an immediate competitor of the other Comedy Central cartoon shows, but we shall see where it goes in the next few episodes.
For now, just know if you laugh at the prospect of one cartoon buffalo tossing a small boulder onto the crotch of another buffalo, you might want to check out "Brickleberry."