>>95558231My problem with him this season is his zaniness overstayed it's welcome. With the clown dentists, you see exactly how bad an idea that is from the initial pitch, and then you just kinda watch it play out how you expected. Compare that to the Halloween store, where they don't waste your time with the resulting store (since, again, you already know that it's a bad idea from the pitch), but go with a punchline outside the scope of the original idea (PB and Todd being so incompetent, they just left the store with no floor). Or compare the Cabra Cadabra plot, which lasts the whole season like the clowns do, but works because there's a constant buildup as it slowly turns into a callgirl service, with a payoff when they help out witht the spaghetti. The clown subplot spends way too much time on the predictable stuff (clown dentists are creepy) for relatively little swerve factor (they get rabies, but only like 5 episodes later). The Disneyland plot was a bit more one-note, but it was contained within one episode, had a lot of background gags (exactly how shitty the park is), is played at least a little bit seriously (the part where PB saves Todd, or the fire acting as a backdrop to Bojack panicking after asking Wanda to live with him) Smoodies had no buildup, but that's why it was a background feature and not even a full subplot. The clowns were basically a Disneyland level plot with Cabra Cadabra levels of screentime, so it overstayed it's welcome.
Same thing with his other subplots this season (and, incidentally, PB's running for governor): you get enough time for the novelty to wear off, and your just watching it play out. The celebrity stealing club and cool Todd plots from last season worked because they were, like, 3 or 4 minutes of screen time for something weird, not a whole episode.
