Only halfway through, so no spoilers,
por favor.
The reviews I've been reading echo a lot of my own sentiments-- a lot of nice, funny, smart gags, a sly wink and nod or two to the heyday of the show--much-appreciated by nineties kids like myself--but a goodly lot of jokes that just fall flat. The Donald Trump jokes were, frankly, getting stale three years ago. C'mon, writers, you're better than this. "Bad rug" jokes? Little hands? Twitter? "Chump Tower"? Dammit, I was doing
that gag back in, like,
high school. Up your game, fellas. Will the show last long enough to do a few Biden jokes? Will
Biden last long enough for the show to do a few jokes about him? Uh...er... by which I mean
impeachment... um... yeah.
(shuffles feet and whistles innocently) 
On the other hand, Brain calling out that pot-bellied little a-hole who's running North Korea was a breath of fresh air. The joke about handing socialist simp Maduro a huge wad of his country's currency and telling him to "buy a stick of gum" had me snorting laughter. Forget the Trump-bashing; I'd actually like to see a whole cartoon mocking Venezuela's failed economy (hell, I'll write it
for you), but in an era of liberal Democrats cozying up to such people for favors, I very much doubt that'd ever happen.
We also agree that the Warners and the mice don't need to carry so much of the water this time around; nixing 80-90% of your ensemble cast without at least having a good replacement or two on deck was probably a bad idea. That said, they acknowledged this fault in one short "Rejected Animaniacs Characters". It's another one of those hit-and-missers, but with promise, and if you know about some of the actual unused ideas for the show-- I mean
back in the early nineties-- there's a certain meta-ness to it I really like. (The one about the self-hating cannibal chicken puts that whole twist at the end of "Good Warners Hunting" in a whole new light. That episode could'a ended
far worse-- brrrrrr..... ) Other similar self-referential skits include "The Flawed Couple" and, my personal favorite, "Yakko Amakko" (look for a couple of very surprising guest stars!)
So, all in all, looking forward to watching the other half of this new season.
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