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Episode Reviews

May 31, 2021 – S1, Ep1: “Who’s a Good Girl?”

Honey tries to add a new dog to her therapy group after her best friend, a dog called Big Cookie, passes away.

Pets make several jokes about sex. A tortoise says he mistook a shoe for another tortoise and had sex with it. (We don’t see the act, but it takes place behind bushes, which shake.) A dog lists her preferred pronouns. A dog asserts his dominance by performing a sexual act on another dog’s leg. Honey dreams about a coyote doing a pole dance. (In the dream, she and the coyote are mer-dogs and a passing squid inks itself when it sees the dance.)

We hear a gerbil killed her mate (allegedly in self-defense) and then ate his face. The same gerbil later confesses to multiple murders. Several characters say a female tortoise is probably dead since she’s been missing for 15 years. A dog angers a hive of bees. The insects attack him, another dog and a family burying their recently deceased pet.

There’s a lot of toilet humor and jokes based on things animals do. Animals pass gas. One dog vomits and then eats it. A dog rubs its bottom on the ground. Animals lick themselves. A dog urinates on several items and people to mark his territory.

We see humans opening champagne in a flashback. We hear a pig’s human owner also owns a tequila company. A seagull eats a cigarette butt. The f-word is bleeped out three times. We also hear a few uses of “h—” and misuses of God’s name.

Characters insult each other and are inconsiderate at times. We hear the human owners of one dog are getting a divorce. Honey imagines in a dream sequence that her best friend went to some sort of heaven when she died.

Apr. 2, 2023 – S2, Ep4: “Who’s a Scaredy Cat?”

Honey tries to convince Diablo, a dog in her therapy group, that there’s no such thing as monsters through immersion therapy. Meanwhile, Chico the cat stows away on a plane to find his missing human. And Chief, Honey’s housemate, confronts his fear of thunder.

Animals lick themselves. A cat references that his human owner masturbates. There’s a crude sexual reference directed at teenagers. There are some sexual jokes. A cat licks the inside of a dead man’s mouth and later says the man was a good kisser. The same male cat talks about waking his male owner with true love’s first kiss. A human couple wearing animal costumes makes out.

Honey and her friends are kidnapped by animals who want to take over their lives. These animals tie the group up and flood a basement in an attempt to drown the gang (though they’re saved). A raccoon nearly drowns. A dog is struck by lightning and falls off a radio tower (but survives). A gerbil says there’s a monster inside her. She sees this darker version of herself in her reflection, and it tells her to burn down buildings and kill others. Several animals take pleasure in Diablo’s panic. Animals get into a fistfight.

We hear that several exotic animals were adopted by their owners purely for social media purposes. We see the owners literally throw the animals in the trash as soon as the pets become inconvenient. One monkey is heavily bandaged and appears to have a bleeding eye. We also hear about a real-life smuggling operation wherein ferrets are given steroids to look like poodles.

There’s some toilet humor. A cat vomits in the head of a man’s mascot costume. We hear that a human cries and uses pills to put herself to sleep. There are a few jump scares. Several animals appear to have red glowing eyes in the dark. There’s a joke about Hepatitis C. God’s name is abused several times.