Another great episode, I think this is my favorite so far especially the break dancing scene lol. I've only gone to one school dance (never danced with any girls lmao), I mostly wanted to play video games too lol.

This one was really funny, I loved it (especially the lunch scene)!!

Why, because the kids are Chinese? I agree with you that we all want to be individualistic regardless of race, but asians in the U.S. are still stereotyped for their ethnicity and my asian friends still get asked what country they're from even though they were born here in the U.S. There are still a lot of non…

But in a way they did try to make a point across about asians lacking on TV in the previous episode and a brief clip with Margaret Cho with her All American Girl that got cancelled (which is pretty symbolic). I just mean there is a sense for Asian-Americans to prove themselves they can assimilate like any other…

I suspect the over exaggerated satirical humor was done on purpose to make a point across about the struggles of assimilation to American culture. There is this sense for Asian-Americans to be aware of their cultural identity even though they're as American as anyone else.

I didn't think Eddie's flirtation with Nicole ruined this episode, he was being himself (his usual self) and it was very brief.

Everything Jessica did was exaggerated for satirical humor. It was over the top humor and probably generic but they were trying to be funny. Also, as I remember growing up in the 90s, street fighter and Mortal Kombat games were really popular (I remember seeing Street Fighter movie in the theater lol, big mistake…

lol, that kid always looks so stoned.

Eddie mentioned it briefly when he was explaining to Trent.

Interesting point, maybe the producers felt the Cantonese sounds more exaggerated Chinese language sounding than Mandarin (Mandarin sounds prettier imo), I think they were trying to be funny but I see where you're getting at. Also, even though Chinese culture with manufacturing isn't their traditional culture, I…

I know what you mean, although, I've had friends growing up that I would have conflict with but we became good friends later as we got older. That was pretty intense with Eddie's friends at the end, I actually thought their acting was alright for their age.

Another interesting episode. Growing up in middle school, I remember hearing about an asian student who stood up for himself because some kid was saying racial slurs at him, but the asian student was the one that got in trouble and the school actually called his parent's house. Intense ending with Eddie and his…

Thomas, with all do respect, the two shows are sitcoms with different cultural satire. I don't think it's fair or necessary to compare the two. FOB humor is more for family entertainment while Blackish seems more for adults. I think as the kids grow older in FOB, satirical humor would probably get to be more adult,…

I know what you're saying but with all do respect, the asian characters are influenced by real life of Eddie Huang's family, so the asian stereotypes are kind of unavoidable. I don't really mind stereotypes on this show (they're more Americanized) because the main characters are asian and are the focus of the show…

I don't think the asian jokes in this show are lame, they're making fun of the stereotypical jokes. This isn't like Ken Jeong with his Mr. Chow character which is really lame because he IS the butt of the joke and not funny at all. Han from 2 Broke Girls is really lame as well because again, he is just a prop to be…

Stereotypes are lame I know, but some episodes didn't seem as funny because of the cliches that we've all seen before (doesn't stand out). That doesn't mean there is more or less favoritism with certain topics. Film critics jobs are just to analyze and to give insights about filmmaking regardless of what the topics…

Some people are complaining this show isn't edgy or too edgy or whatever compared to other shows, but I beg to differ. This show started out as Eddie's perspective with the Wonder Years like narration and young Eddie and his brothers are pretty young on the show. Maybe as the series progresses when the kids are…

This was mostly paying homage and making fun of other sports related movies. I think someday, there would be a movie about Jeremy Lin, like a biopic or something, unfortunately, I can't think of a single movie that had an asian actor in a sports movie. There was that kicker in The Little Giants movie, and that sumo…

Each episode was making fun of something else. This episode was paying homage and making fun of sports movies. I can see a little bit of Bad News Bears, Hoosiers, The Replacements, Little Giants, and The Mighty Ducks influence. It also dealt with making fun of the stereotypes with the lack of asian actors and the…

Interesting, I didn't know it went that further back to the 1920s. That probably was a generic sequence I guess, although, it's making fun of those what you were saying about the badly matched English dubbed wuxia movies.