Product: Squidbillies, Vol. 3 (2010)
Rating: 5.0
Always Good for a Laugh
If you haven't yet seen Squidbillies, it's because someone must have told you that it's low-brow humor about backwoods inbred squids... or you don't have Cartoon Network. Because if you did have Cartoon Network, you'd have seen at least a single episode of it as part of the [adult swim] lineup.Squidbillies takes place in a small made up town in the Appalachian region in north Georgia. The animation is crude, the characters are all a little... off..., and the humor is more akin to radiation therapy than actual ha-ha-that's-funny.Trying to follow a full episode and make sense of it is next to impossible. The creators of the show insist on either maiming or killing off one or all characters on the show (or in some cases, destroying the world) but bringing them back over and over again for more punishment. Most of the jokes are pointed at the "People of Wal-Mart" classification. There is an episode in the third volume where the main squid, Earley Cuyler, wants to go down to the store to buy some of those bullet-hole decals you see on cars and trucks all the time. But he comes back home to grab his shotgun because the decals are too expensive. He proceeds to shoot holes in his own "truck-boat-truck" (it's an amalgam of a large truck fused to a boat which is fused to another truck... a convoy of confusion, more or less) and whoop and holler about how "realistic" the bullet holes look.Not everyone will understand the humor, and even less people will enjoy it. If you're looking for solid laughs with a stern backbone of the deeper understandings of life, this show is not for you. If you're looking for a show that will make you cringe, chuckle, think to yourself "wait, I used to like monster trucks... am I like these squids?", and possibly have to take an extended break between episodes to clear your head... this show is for you.Enjoy Squidbillies on DVD. Because the Cuyler family doesn't have a clue what a DVD is.