User blog:CartoonFan14/Review: Funny Business

Welp, I failed miserably in my attempts to do two reviews last week, but I'm going to cover this one now, so without wasting anymore time than I already have, here's Funny Business.

First, I'm just going to talk about the humor, it isn't good, especailly for a Luan episode, because they don't make enough jokes, and it leaves something to desired, I feel like I laughed at 2 parts, the montage of the failed assistants, and the teens reaction to Lincoln bombing (neither of which involved Luan very much), but what else was there, Luan is a character who's most known for making jokes, so why star her in an episode and not do much in the humor department, it just doesn't make sense to me.

Next, let's move on to characters, the two star characters to be exact. First there's Luan, who yes, when Lincoln started getting jerky, she was somewhat justified in being annoyed, but at the start, before he let it get to his head too much, it just seemed like she was putting him down, I mean, didn't she bribe Lincoln into assisting her, didn't Lincoln say no? She can't really be fully justified in being annoyed if she brought it on herself. Next, it just bugs me that she doesn't want to help Lincoln till he tells her it will affect her as well, it just makes her look immature. (Imagine all the sisters being fine with Lincoln being grounded in Slueth or Consequences, but then all 10 of them want to help Linc find the clogger when Lynn Sr said that all the kids would be grounded)

Next, on to Lincoln, who they really screwed up with if you ask me, and where did they go wrong, they went wrong when they made the kids enjoy Lincoln's act. Because it made the writing feel rushed, the reason characters like Luan and Fozzie normally work, is the reason Lincoln doesn't work here, they think they're Funny, while the other characters beg to differ, now I'm not saying they shouldn't make the characters groan from the start, but make the progression to Maggie's party feel realistic, have the younger audiences slowly get more and more bored with Lincoln, so when it comes time for Lincoln to take on Maggie, you know he isn't going to succeed. If you ask me it works better than it just being Funny up until the very end.

Anyways, that's why I found Funny Business mediocre, it didn't have a lot of good jokes, the characters definitely weren't at their best here, and the story and writing just felt rushed. On the flip side, the few jokes placed in the story worked really well for the most part, both characters fixed themselves by the end and grew a little, and the ending was kinda sweet.

Rating: 5.5/10