The Cleveland Show - "Field of Streams" - Talkback [1/3]

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Broadcast Order: Season 1, Episode 10
Production Order: Season 1, Episode 6

Writer: Aaron Lee
Director: Ian Graham

A new episode airs tonight at 8:30 PM Eastern. Here is the synopsis:
 
Hilarious episode now that's two wifes who have it out for a celebrity " I'm gonna kill you Phylicia Rashad I'm gonna kill you" had me dying :anime:. And love Cleveland's rant.
 
I wasn't able to watch the first part of it, but from what I saw it did seem like an interesting episode. But man Cleveland's old coach kind of shocked me with his face being like that.
 
I'm befuddled, because how can this show have turned out to be actually good?! It seemed like such an obvious bomb from the second it was announced over two years ago, and gradually got worse and worse the more we heard about it.

But alas the show finally goes on the air and proves itself with decent joke writing, storytelling and emotion on American Dad-levels and shockingly grade-A voice actor work. Out of all the Animation Domination shows, this one boasts the best VA cast by far. (sorry legendary Simpsons crew, but you guys obviously don't care enough to make it work anymore) I can't believe how much I adored the Christmas episode and how this is pretty good itself. We're only ten episodes in and already I'm praising the heck out of it. American Dad took longer to rise from its initial crap status. Cleveland Show barely even hovered above that to start with. Maybe having MacFarlane as far away from his two other shows as possible is a very, very good thing. (though sometimes it clicks, as it did in last night's terrific FG episode, that's a rare thing nowadays)

I have to say Mr. Henry, I am so, so sorry about any ill I said about your show pre-debut. You certainly have won my respect. Just please don't lose your formula to cutaways, okay? I know you still have them, but keep them to a smart minimum like you do currently, thank you...
 
Speaking of which, I saw Mae Whitman's name in the credits, was she the voice of Miley Cyrus in this episode? If so, I wonder how Disney feels that Tinkerbell making fun of their aging teen star.

Anyway it is a refreashing change of pace that there was one story line and that is it.

I wonder if the old hyber Cleveland Jr would do better at baseball.
 
Awww... it's hilarious to see Cleveland trying to push Junior to follow in his footsteps. Too bad he's not much of a baseball player. Fun episode, though. Loved the random bit with the beatdown of the old ladies in the mall. And Cleveland himself revisiting another person from his high school days... even if he and Wally never saw eye to eye on a lot of things.
 
Definitely a great episode. Loved the scene with the baseball coach and his... um... missing cheek? Normally that alone would be the funny part but the visual of Cleveland suddenly needing to puke and then very desperately holding it in and swallowing it all was utterly fantastic.

It reminds me of an earlier gripe I had about the show after its first few episodes, caused by the fact that the characters had the incessant need to puke everywhere all the time. Thank goodness this episode didn't go there because it was infinitely stronger the other way around.

Once again I have to voice a concern; and hope that the Red Hat Society not be a recurring gag on this show. It's too similar to the Giant Chicken jokes on FG, which I still think are great, but leave that to Family Guy.

I'm beginning to become a big fan of Cleveland's shoddy parenting skills. Who'd have thought that after only half a season or so, Cleveland Jr.'s otherwise inexplicable massive weight gain and personality change would make perfect sense?

TCS is definitely getting better as the show moves on.
 
Well, given how Cleveland Jr. came from a family where his parents got divorced, I could see the weight gain and change of personality as some effects that the divorce had on him.
 
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