The League 03x05 ‐ ‘Bobbum Man’ I didn’t get to write this over the weekend because of other stuff, so here it is now. First off, I’ll say that I’m not a huge fan of Halloween or Halloween‐themed TV, because a lot of it falls flat. That said, this wasn’t a half bad episode of The League. Once again, Kevin is made to look completely helpless, due to his fear of the Bobbum Man, a creepy telephone character created by Pete in college, who seems to be some kind of sociopathic sex offender, obsessed with getting up in Kevin’s ‘bobbum’ with his ‘equipmunk’ (it was all a little sketchy). This is intertwined with Taco’s storyline for the week, in which he gets sick of social media and conversing on the Internet, and subsequently creates ‘My Face’, an offline social network (‘I think this has been happening for a while, Taco. It’s called society’). Predictably, and hilariously, Taco enlists Rafi to play the offline avatar for the Bobbum Man, and this gives us an amazing glimpse into how Rafi lives, with the combined toilet/kitchen, the shit‐stained mattress, the massive stockpile of chairs, and the My Face wall which is basically just pictures of male butts and knives. Meanwhile, Ruxin goes to yoga with Andre in order to reach ‘lineup nirvana’. This storyline is a little mixed and kinda just shoehorned in to give them something to do, but Nick Kroll still managed to run with it, with his sarcastic ‘ummmmmm’s. Oh and we got to see Jenny in her underwear for hers and Kevin’s ‘sexiversary’. Cool. The whole episode felt a little haphazard to me, but it still had some excellent moments as usual (basically any scene with Rafi). But it would be good to see a return to the episodes that focus on the fantasy football rivalry that lies at the heart of the series. ‘I’m gonna stab you. Offline. With a real knife.’

The League 03x05 ‐ ‘Bobbum Man’

I didn’t get to write this over the weekend because of other stuff, so here it is now. First off, I’ll say that I’m not a huge fan of Halloween or Halloween‐themed TV, because a lot of it falls flat. That said, this wasn’t a half bad episode of The League. Once again, Kevin is made to look completely helpless, due to his fear of the Bobbum Man, a creepy telephone character created by Pete in college, who seems to be some kind of sociopathic sex offender, obsessed with getting up in Kevin’s ‘bobbum’ with his ‘equipmunk’ (it was all a little sketchy). This is intertwined with Taco’s storyline for the week, in which he gets sick of social media and conversing on the Internet, and subsequently creates ‘My Face’, an offline social network (‘I think this has been happening for a while, Taco. It’s called society’). Predictably, and hilariously, Taco enlists Rafi to play the offline avatar for the Bobbum Man, and this gives us an amazing glimpse into how Rafi lives, with the combined toilet/kitchen, the shit‐stained mattress, the massive stockpile of chairs, and the My Face wall which is basically just pictures of male butts and knives.

Meanwhile, Ruxin goes to yoga with Andre in order to reach ‘lineup nirvana’. This storyline is a little mixed and kinda just shoehorned in to give them something to do, but Nick Kroll still managed to run with it, with his sarcastic ‘ummmmmm’s. Oh and we got to see Jenny in her underwear for hers and Kevin’s ‘sexiversary’. Cool. The whole episode felt a little haphazard to me, but it still had some excellent moments as usual (basically any scene with Rafi). But it would be good to see a return to the episodes that focus on the fantasy football rivalry that lies at the heart of the series.

  • ‘I’m gonna stab you. Offline. With a real knife.’

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