Season 3 - Episode 5
FX (US)
When The League started airing two years ago, it was a nice little sitcom about a group of friends who played fantasy football together. Since then, it's gotten increasingly ridiculous. "Bobbum Man" was the point that it got fucked up. And it was awesome.
The Bobbum Man - a character created in college by Pete with seemingly the sole purpose of creeping out Kevin is mentioned early on. From then on, Kevin is on edge. The other story running through the episode is the latest venture from Taco, an offline social network called MyFace. MyFace is genius. The "wall" is a large cardboard sheet, with photos and post-it notes attached. It literally needs to be seen to be believed and enjoyed. Taco manages to cause all sorts of mischief with MyFace, but it's when you see Raffi is one of his MyFace friends, you know something is about to kick off.
Indeed the ending to the episode is one of the funniest scenes the show has ever done. Knowing now that Raffi has assumed the Bobbum character, and is slightly less than stable, Kevin and Pete find themselves in a dark alleyway staring down "Bobbum". Who of course turns out to be Andre trying to sneak back into a yoga class Ruxin had gotten him kicked out of. The begin to beat up the man they believe to be Bobbum, only for RAffi to sprint in and join them. Andre is left a beaten mess in the alley, and Raffi forms a plan to kill him and flee the country. I really hope Raffi gets made a regular next year, he is absolutely ace.
While the plots are getting slightly more outlandish, The League is losing none of the things that made it so good in the first place. "Bobbum Man" is a very funny episode indeed.
****
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