Big Mouth (2017-) is an animated sitcom about middle schoolers negotiating puberty with the advice (good or bad) of hormone monsters, a shame demon, a depression kitty, and various other magical beings. There are gay, bisexual, and transgender characters, and for a change, bisexual Jay actually dates boys and girls both, instead of just saying that he's bisexual and dating only girls (he even ends up with a boy!).
Opening: The spider-receptionist goes to lunch, only to find two Hormone Monsters screwing in the break room. He tries to ignore them, but slips on the cum, breaks his legs, and ruins his chicken salad.
A Plot: The boss tells the Hormone Monsters that it's inappropriate to screw at the office, destroying other people's cubicles and leaving messes all over. She calls Corporate, which sends an Empathy Owl to do sensitiivity training. At first they seem to be responding to her role-playing interventions, but then Hormone Monster Mona rebels: their job is advising clients about sex, so of course they have to do it at work.
B Plot: Experienced Lovebug Walter (Brandon Kyle Goodman, left) offers to take the newly-hired Emmy on a "ride-along," so she can see how love works.
First stop: Client Brent, who is rather swishy and has a husband. But the husband is fine; Walter was assigned to negotiate the love between Brent and his cat. Who said that all love was romantic?
Next stop: A nursing home. Yara, who has Alzheimer's and keeps flashing back to when she was a college student in Lebanon in 1972, and had a forbidden romance with Safi, a boy her parents disapproved of. It was one of the highlights of her life.
The memory is interrupted by Yara's son Amir (Ahmed El-Mawas), who wants to know where the "good blankets" are. Walter is angry, until he, living through Yara, remembers that Amir visits every day, and brought the rosewater tea that she liked in Lebanon.
C Plot: Pete the Logic Rock (Randall Park), who looks like an Easter Island head, complains to Lovebug Rochelle that their client, Doug, signed up for a credit card with high interest rate, just because it's affiliated with a sports team that he loves. She promises to talk him out of it, but instead she has him pimp out his car to look like the sports team. Pete is furious. But his fiancee likes it, and the team hires him to do promotions, so everything works out.
Beefcake: These are monsters.
Heterosexism: All of the hormone monster screwing appears to be heterosexual.
Gay Characters: When Lovebug Walter sings about love being "psycho," he morphs into various male and female beings involved in same-sex and heterosexual romances. Brent in the B plot never appears again. Yara's granddaughter Nadia, who appears in two episodes, is gay. Herother granddaughter, Natalie, who appears in one episode, is transgender.
Rauchiness: A bit over the top. I don't necessarily want to hear about jizz every ten seconds.
My Grade: B