Reno 911! heads into its midseason break in standard form this week, with an episode that typified most of this season thus far: pretty funny, mostly disconnected, and with a generous helping of sexual deviance, ball, vibrator, and racial jokes.

The racial theme was especially pronounced this week, as the episode’s main storyline concerned Garcia and Junior driving down to Yuma,... Read Comments: 0

Zingers! Tonight’s episode of Reno 911! was replete with them, the laugh-out-loud killer lines that prove just how funny this show can be: Wiegel saying, “So the next time you’re playing nok hockey, just think of me jerking off some crackhead.” Big Mike, on his child companion, “He couldn’t be a priest if you’ve seen all the shit he does on a daily basis. He is one randy... Read Comments: 0

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It’s tempting to say the members of the Reno Sheriffs Department have little more than contempt for the people they protect—actually, that generalization could apply to their real-life counterparts in any city, for that matter—but it’s not necessarily accurate. Sure, Reno seems to be full of degenerates and degenerates disguised as good citizens, but the deputies still have a sense of... Read Comments: 0

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Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant originally conceived of Reno 911! as a sketch show, just with police. In practice, they haven’t strayed far from their first concept, as Reno is basically a collection of bits, with a few plot elements here and there to advance a very loosely defined story. Tonight’s stories: The female deputies get special, cleavage-revealing bulletproof... Read Comments: 0

“I didn’t think we could look any stupider on TV than we already do,” says Travis Junior in the second episode of Reno 911!’s fifth season. This time, the bumbling Reno Sheriffs Department is outmatched by Diedrich Bader, playing Tommy Hawk, a Dog-like bounty hunter. Five seasons in, you’d think the show would have... Read Comments: 0

It’s been eight months since Reno 911! ended its fourth season with a dramatic (relatively speaking) cliffhanger: Officer Garcia whisking away Leslie, Dangle’s would-be husband, from the altar—well, the hospital room where Deputy Wiegel was waiting to give birth. Wiegel had a secret to reveal, too: She knew who had donated the sperm that got her pregnant, and she insinuated it was... Read Comments: 0