My Gym Partner's a Monkey (TV Series) Hygiene Hijinks/Mandrill of the House (2008) User Reviews

There's a reason why people forgot it existed.

[tommypezmaster · 1/10 · 5 December 2023]

When a cartoon purports to be dark and off the wall humor, for it to be good it must have certain aspects. Something like South Park does this very well because the jokes make sense, and all connect to what the main topic is about for each episode. South Park is able to adeptly blend offensiveness into it's humor to create it's trademark style, and sheds life onto many problems this world has, but in a clever way. What isn't clever, is slapping in random offensive jokes just to get a laugh, and that's what Gym Partner is. There is nothing edgy about this show, it's just South Park's humor but dumbed down to even more child like levels. Like I said, I don't mind offensive humor, but there are times when one of the characters says something offensive, and the other characters just stand there staring at the speaker for like 10 seconds. This is supposed to be time for me to laugh, but I never cracked a smile throughout the whole thing. The animation is awful, it's like if Family Guy was made by a high school student. And that's really a pretty good analogy for the show as a whole. They throw in jokes they EXPECT you to laugh at, but they are just weird and uncomfortable. Blatant racism, sexism, and drawn-out awkward moments, this show is the worst.