3 out of 5

Director: Adam Reed, Matt Thompson.  Probably.

Further extrapolating the weirdness in Sealab 2021, Matt Thompson and Adam Reed pitch us the initially random seeming Frisky Dingo, with albino monster Killface and his plot to destroy the planet (the ‘why’ of which is shoulder-shruggingly resolved at the end of the 2 season series) and hero and KF’s “arch-nemesis” Awesome X, AKA Xander Cruise, AKA the sketch for lady-izer, stupid catch-phrase slingin’, seems like 99% idiot Archer.  Frisky’s humor pushes the silent pause joke constantly, and though Sealab was by no means ‘innocent,’ the tie to characters from a Hanna-Barbera cartoon seemed to limit Thompson’s and Reed’s jokes from plunging too far into the gross-out masturbatory humor into which Dingo eventually descends.  Season 1 works by throwing increasingly absurd subplots around the central buildup of Xander vs. Killface vs. blowing up the world, but Season 2 – trying something similar with a vie for the presidency – lacks the throw-it-to-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks feeling of the previous season, and the randomness and repeated jokes no longer seem earned but assumed, if that makes sense.  Still, there’s an unleashed imagination here that does explode in unexpected tumorous growths, and if you’ve enjoyed Archer or Sealab and laugh at episode 1 of Dingo, you’ll fit right in.