Getting Ice Dick, Don't Wait Up

What the hell was that episode?! The writing this season has been sub par at best and this is easily the worst episode of the entire series. I looked it up just to check to see if Mindy Kaling wrote it and sometimes (rarely) she's not even this bad. I was bored, I don't know or care what the story or arc is for the season, the action isn't good and the comedy is worse! There are some seriously cringe moments here and characters not behaving like they should, especially Ivy. And Harley is more annoying than usual. Not sure if I even want to watch the next episode let alone finish the season. First two seasons were great, it's been going downhill since.

The animation remains good and the original actors keep the train moving. The new characters (the Jons & Alysia) are dull and uninspired and are basically there to pad screen time. If you introduce a new character, help us understand who they are, what their motivation is, or at least have them say something clever.

The action scenes are forced and without a real rationale. The bit about Harley's eyesight are unfunny and overdone, and many jokes aren't as clever as the writers seem to think they are. Worst of all, Harley & Ivy seem lost without anything interesting to do, so the writers go back to forcing a rehash of scenes like Tawny but without any sense of constructing a coherent story. I direct them to Trey Parker & Matt Stone's talk about moving from "This and then this" to "This, but this (complication), and therefore (logical next step based on our characters/true-to-life consequences)."