What If... Howard the Duck Got Hitched?

First of all, Not a fan of how this third season is going.

This just seem like a vehicle to get work for actor and actress that were in the previous MCU movies.

Next, this could have been a typical Howard The Duck intro.

If you have ever read a single Howard comic, you would know this type eccentric storyline is common place.

Instead of Darcy, we could have had Howard's comicbook girlfriend Beverly. But let's give Kat Denning some work, right?

As uusual the cringe jokes where about, but since this is Howard The Duck, I gave most of it a pass, most of it.

I loved Marvel growing up, but jeez, I'm really hating what been done here. Disney has really destroyed this IP.

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.

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.

What a joke this season. Everything is a laugh. It gives me Thor Love and Thunder. It's so unbearable to watch. The story is just all over the place, so unserious, and illogical. I think the writers were having a bit too much fun. There were episodes where I can just totally ignore, then there're episodes that are supposedly important but the execution was terrible. There is too much mix and match and they dont even make sense. SS1 was phenomenal, then it all went down from SS2. SS3 was diabolical. This episode in particular was an eye rolling one. Also random cameo just come in probably for the star value rather than adding anything to the story. Hate it.