When I read the plot, I was fully expecting community theatre jokes and maybe even an homage to Waiting for Guffman. While yes, the joke that the future is so bad that we’re treating Jim Carrey movies like Shakespeare works, at the same time – did they HAVE to pick Jim Carrey? And at that, did they have to pick THAT movie? There are so many other movies that could’ve worked and made the same point. In an attempt to revive TI-90, Sid pours rice over him. When TI-90 gets fed up and tries to kill Sid, it backfires and knocks TI-90 out instead. The one really good joke is in this plot.

There is obvious tension between TI-90 and Sid, and there’s a bit of an ‘odd couple’ type trope when Freya ends up not joining them on their outing. Out of the two, I actually enjoyed the B plot a lot more. There are a lot of drug jokes as a result. In the B plot, Sid (Daniel Radcliffe) goes on a weekend trip with TI-90 (Karan Soni) and his robot friends (five copies of Karan Soni) to a nuclear shelter. Scraps (John Bass) expresses interest in auditioning for the lead, but Freya (Geraldine Viswanathan) ends up getting cast, and she gets a little too into the role. This year’s production? Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. In episode 4, ‘Jim Carrey in the Park’, the A plot has Morris (Steve Buscemi) announce that as the resident community person, he is in charge of presenting their annual cultural event, a yearly staged version of a Jim Carrey movie. Jim Carrey gets the Shakespeare treatment and robot friendship is tested in the latest episode of Miracle Workers season 4. Photo by Tyler Golden and used courtesy Warner Bros. Geraldine Viswanathan in “Jim Carrey in the Park”.

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