It was my birthday on Friday and I chose to not spend a second of it engaging with Fox’s Going Dutch, easily the worst thing I make myself watch. Instead I mostly watched 30ROCK, and read some of the books I got. That’s why this one’s a little late, not that I make promises about any kind of schedule or doing this at all, I reserve that kind of commitment for my ongoing webcomic, AVI & AQUILA, which updates every Tuesday and Thursday.
Anyway. Going Dutch. This one’s about a visit to the base by a CIA agent who is also Captain Daughter’s boyfriend, a combination everyone is super normal about. Really engaging with the premise there, television’s Going Dutch. In the B-story, the base gets assigned the task of doing the laundry for all of NATO, because there’s a conference on in Belgium. On the same night, Animal Control did one about whether it’s right to execute an elderly dog for the crime of not being a young dog. Haven’t seen it yet, you have to imagine they come out on the side of “that’s not right.”
Let’s try to stick strictly to actual Dutch Notes this week.
Dutch Notes
- Alright, I don’t actually have any Dutch Notes on this one. I thought last week’s wasn’t really gonna engage with the Dutch half of the premise, but this one actually doesn’t. I don’t think they even show the windmill.
- Ways the Americans are weird to me this week:
- They’re incapable of seeing bare feet without making an OnlyFans joke.
- The extreme overprotectiveness of specifically their daughters, to the point of the threat of extreme violence against their partners.
- There’s a running thread about one soldier’s enormous penis being too big for the tux he’s supposed to wear, so they put him in a kilt, the reveal of which is played as a joke on its own? That’s your joke? He looks great?
- Denis Leary continues to refuse to engage with what the base actually does, and is once again extremely dismissive of how seriously they take the laundry services they provide for the other bases. I get that in his head he’s a big GI Joe man whose job should involve as many guns as it takes to prove his penis is very large, I get that that’s the premise, but he just comes across as completely incapable of meeting an unexpected challenge of any kind. Truly just an incompetent manchild larping as an Action Man doll.
- Speaking of. I’m taking this show’s word on a lot of the military stuff, but is a “service base” in this way, where they do laundry and make cheese for all the other bases around them actually a thing? Wouldn’t the bases in Belgium have the facilities to do laundry? Wouldn’t a base in Germany just… buy cheese locally?
Bad show!
I understand next week’s is about korfbal, a normal sport the Americans will surely engage with earnestly and openly.