Gary & Mike

It's Bill and Ted meets Chicken Run, it's Dumb and Dumber meets Wallace and Grommit, The Odd Couple meets Road Trip meets Southpark. This show is a must-see that really hasn't gained the credit that it deserves. Two guys set off on a road trip having lost their car, their money, and their plans. Standard road trip fare except that, being animated, they can get away with much more than would ever be possible normally.

Everything, usually with hilarious results. In this series, a take off of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, 'nice normal' Gary gets hooked up with Mike 'the friend from hell' on a cross country odyssey to find themselves. Mike talks Gary into abandoning the traditional roadtrip following Lewis and Clark's expedition in favor of a new trip, while Mike himself is just trying to escape the father of a girl he 'made friends' with on the morning of her wedding to another boy. With a start like this, it's no surprise that they usually find trouble rather than enlightenment, especially since Officer Dick (the girl's father) is following along to claim a large portion of Mike's hide.

On the way they meet everything from pyromaniac hippies to Klingon speaking hookers to Mole People to Mike's brother. Each story seems crazier than the last with no end in sight. Gary wants to lose his virginity to 'the right woman' while Mike is willing to take whoever's next, ideally 'fixing' Gary's condition at the same time. They go on television, jump from planes, run from Rabbis, and eat food stored in their glove box. And they never ever look back to home.

This show is about two guys traveling around the country in a car they got just after two fat people just had it in the car. Mike is way too uptight and really wants to grow up on this trip. Gary is a free loading guy who just mooches off Mike in a big way. My hero. Their life revolves around funny circumstances that would be horrible to any real person, I think that's why it's great their in clay. It's the only way to keep reminding you that it's funny because they're not real. Sit back for a great ride with the not so flamboyant Gary and Mike. As Television show goes this is just about the best one I've seen in a long time.

This show used to be the ONLY reason why I'd watch UPN, and ever since it got cancelled, I never went back.

But it's on Comedy Central, allbeit at the usual ungodly hour they place mature cartoons at. But for them, I'd drink that extra bottle of Mountain Dew anyday!

On the surface, it seems like your mundane, out of the bottle "Odd Couple"-esque sitcom which featured a dorky, conservative Gary and a wild free spirit named Mike. What puts them apart is that they kept doubling on that concept, and doubling it, and doubling it, and doubling it, and doubling it until you have a product which you can't help but forsake the need for oxygen and laugh the night away.

Typical episode: Gary thinks Mike is a third wheel and decides to split up with him. Mike ends up being laid by several underwear models while old hapless Gary ends up trying to escape from a bunch of underworld freaks who lives in the sewers. How that could possibly happen, you need to see the episode for yourself.

***** out of ***** It's too bad all the good shows get the axe.