"Workaholics" just ended its long-awaited 5th season, and it didn't really live up to all the hype... (see photos above) It's unfortunately only 13 episodes long, and the season finale sucked and totally contradicted previous episodes. However, there are still a few really good episodes and cool guest appearances this season. There are already some fan-favorites; such as, "Speedo Racer" - wherein "Anders" gets impaled by a trophy and we get to see "The DERS" again for the first time since season 3! "Front Yard Wrestling", features Ben Stiller as their landlord and he fights the guys in a front yard wrestling match, "Gramps DeMamp is Dead", features Jack Black as "Adam's" wild, irresponsible father who turns out to be his older brother in an odd twist, and Dolph Lundgren is featured briefly in "Blood Drive" as himself. Despite all those funny episodes, my favorite one by far is "Peyote it Forward", the episode where the guys are tripping on peyote while they're at work and put in charge of watching an 8 year old kid for the day. It's the best episode of the season, and one of their best episodes EVER in my opinion.
The three main characters and their drug dealer are actually the creators/ producers/ directors/ writers of the show too, just like with "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". Except in this show, they all use their real names with a slight change like, "Anders Holmvik" is played by Anders Holm, "Blake Henderson" is played by Blake Anderson, "Adam DeMamp" is played by the hilarious Adam DeVine, and "Karl Hevacheck" is played by Kyle Newacheck (he also directs the majority of the episodes). Sometimes they will all collaborate on writing an episode together, and sometimes it will be an episode written completely by just one out of the four guys. They're young, creative, comedic geniuses and real life best friends that turned a small TV show they thought would be cancelled after the first season, into a hit series that has lasted 5 seasons on "Comedy Central" and grown more and more in popularity.
They make no secrets about smoking herb on and off camera. They have episodes about doing almost EVERY drug over the course of five seasons. Including, cocaine, acid, steroids, ecstasy (or "molly"), PCP (embalming fluid), bath salts, mushrooms, and of course; marijuana and alcohol in every episode. Just when I thought they had done everything, they added peyote to the list this season. This is definitely an adult show that plays late at night on "Comedy Central". (Also available for download)
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