What If... Howard the Duck Got Hitched?

This is my favorite sequel episode. Having everyone after an egg of extraordinary power for their own reasons is pretty in line with the vintage comics it originated from and Seth green and Kat dennings do a good job as well as the returning actors too. Most of the episodes are based around alternate versions of the movies such as Thor not taking his responsibility of the future king seriously and Tiamat actually being birthed from the earth without any interruptions from any war. Sucks that this is the last season because this show has tones of potential but was dragged down by biased criticism.

When this was a print comic book issues like this were some of my favorites. Not every What If can be What if Professor X became Juggernaut or Reed Richards became Sorcerer Supreme". Fun little zany issues were always the most fun.

Dumb premise, yup. Superfluous characters, check. Ludicrous plot, definitely. Was it a strong epic setting episode? We won't know until the final episodes air. Its fun and silly though.

The same constant sterile haters will loath it. That's fine, they will fling insipid critiques. It tends to be all they can do. What, are they gonna get the series cancelled??!?!?!

I see my fellow reviewers are going to make me tap the "it's supposed to be fun" sign again with this one. Admittedly though, the comparisons with "Thor: Love and Thunder" as opposed to "Thor: Ragnarok" and this episode do seem reasonably apt.

Following on from Thor's party on Earth, the relationship bloomed between Howard The Duck (Seth Green) and Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) to the point that it has resulted in a baby - or more specifically an Egg, that they continue to look after. However, beginning with The Grandmaster (Matt Friend) the villains from around the Universe try to capture the egg for themselves, believing it to have special powers as it was born under a nine realm convergence.

Look, maybe calm down a bit. This is alright. It's supposed to be a madcap comedy. I wil,l as I said above, concede that it doesn't work as well as the previous episode, for example, which was a decent story with some comedic elements. This maybe has that balance off, similarly to "Love and Thunder" so the comedy isn't built on anything and can become a little more wearing.

This has a lot of the main cast returning, even Josh Brolin as Thanos for essentially one line. There are two notable exceptions. Russell Crowe does not play Zeus, though the vocal performer Darin De Paul is OK. Much more noteworthy is Matt Friend who plays The Grandmaster and does a full-on impression of Jeff Goldblum, including all the 'ums' and 'ahs' that you'd expect. It's very obviously not him, but it's certainly fun.

Yes, it's the weakest episode of this season so far, but it's alright.

This felt more in line to the 1st season of "What If...?" It was fun, it was entertaining, it presented many silly What If questions. People seem to forget that the entire Marvel Universe is based on comic books and thus are supposed to be a little ridiculous, feature crazy situations, and zany story points.

More of this and less of the preachy 1st two episodes from this season that took themselves too seriously and forgot how to have fun.

I thought Howard the Duck and Darcy worked great together being different species but similar personalities. The appearances of the other characters were great, added levity and hilarity to the episode, and can we talk about how Loki was fantastic in the moments he appeared.

Hopefully the other episodes can channel more of this feel and less of the earlier episodes.

This was my favorite episode of the season so far. The writing was absolutely top notch. I can see some people who just can't take a little humor with their action might be pushed out of shape by it, but for me, this was excellent.

First off, the unlikely romance between two of the MCU's zanier characters was pretty darn heartwarming. And whenever the show does a callback to earlier episodes, it enriches the entire series. But the wild idea of making their egg the thing that everyone wants and turning it into one big wacky cosmic chase was brilliant.

(Oh, and I just thought - it was an "egg MacGuffin!" I wonder if the writers though of that awful joke and discarded it, or just never came up with it..?)

Anyway, this is just the sort of thing I look forward to in this series. Not that I don't enjoy the more "serious" entries, but this hits everything I need.