Matt Kelly – Workaholics
The past month has turned me into a Workaholic-aholic! Don’t get me wrong. The show has always been strong. The writing is tight and there is something about the guys’ chemistry that makes watching the show legitimately feel like hanging out with the funniest versions of your friends. This season and the last couple of episodes specifically have turned the guys against each other to make the show even better. One episode stands out above the rest. Let’s talk about “Gayborhood.”
This series has been building towards “Gayborhood” since its inception. For those of you who haven’t seen it, in “Gayborhood” the gang accidentally gets really drunk at a gay pride party and sleep with each other. The results are hilarious. They end up having to get real and honest about their relationship. In the end they participate in a TelAmeriCorp team building exercise that, like most team building exercises, brings them closer together than ever. Some excellent cameos from Jerry O’Connell and Tim Bagley make the episode even better. Overall though, it’s Adam, Blake, and Ders that sell the unbelievable premise that breaks down the dynamic between the guys and builds it right back up again.
On another show, this kind of episode could be cheap but the Workaholics gang really earned it. This is one of the more intentionally unintentionally homoerotic shows on television. For example, the episode immediately preceding “Gayborhood,” “Menergy Crisis,” was all about the guys forming a band that devolved to them just mooning each other and it was awesome. Eventually you knew something had to give and eventually the guys would get drunk and do something they regretted with each other and the culmination of all of that in “Gayborhood” was well worth the wait.
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