The animated sci-fi spoof Farzar just dropped on Netflix 10 minutes ago, but already reviewers are praising it for being more brash and vulgar than any other animated series in history. I doubt that: I've seen Family Guy. Generally these shows get about 30% of their jokes from mocking swishy-stereotype gay men. I'll watch until the 3rd homophobic joke.
Scene 1: A narrator fills us in on the premise. Orc-like aliens led by the evil Bazarack invaded the human planet Farzar (shot of a nuclear family being incinerated), but Renzo, Czar of Farzar, fought them off (shot of him killing aliens with a magic guitar). Then he married the elderly Queen Flammy and built a dome around the city. One day Renzo will defeat Bazarack permanently with his rock star hair and chiseled chocolate pecs (shot of Renzo reading a pop-up book version of his story to kids, who are disgusted by his moveable pecs and kicks to Bazarack's penis).
Scene 2: The 30th birthday party of chunky, inept Prince Fichael. In an alien-fighting skit, he points his lightsaber the wrong way and incinerates his crotch. Twice. He's upset because all of his presents are gold-plated: "What's next, a gold-plated girlfriend?" Heterosexual, are you?
A guard rushes in to announce that the energy dome has been vandalized by a drawing of an alien screwing Renzo. "That's offensive!" he exclaims. "Where's my reach-around?"
Prince Fichael wants to become a general. Renzo refuses, but Fichael holds his breath until Daddy gives in.
Scene 3: Fichael addresses his Special Hostile Assault Team (S.H.A.T.): his drug-addled cyborg servant; a two headed warrior, one side glamazon, the other schoolmarm (Cyborg Servant; "Is she single? I have a six-year old nephew that I'm trying to get laid."); a crazy scientist; and his disgusting hybrid experiment, who masturbates in front of the team (Crazy Scientist: "You must grip the shaft tighter, or you'll never climax"
Their mission is to gather rocks for Dad's koi pond. Cyborg Servant doesn't want to go, because every time he leaves the dome, he loses a body part to the aliens (shot of him losing an arm, and then a leg, and hiding in a giant rock monster's butt. Apparently the animators think that anything suggesting anal sex is over-the-top. "The only thing left of me is my man part, and I don't want to lose it." Glamazon balks: "Your Dad is giving us shit assignments, because he thinks we're a joke."
Scene 4: The elderly Queen asks Renzo for sex, but he avoids her: "It's so dry I'm afraid I'll light a fire." Personally, I find vagina references more over-the-top than anal-sex references. Prince Fichael asks if the team is a joke. "Of course you are. You can't leave the city. If you're hurt, your mother will divorce me, and I'll lose the throne." Fichael vows to prove himself by killing Bazarack, the head alien.
Scene 5: Cyborg Servant and Crazy Scientist refuse to go on the new mission. Glamazon/Schoolmarm, three of their kids on leashes, and Hybrid Experiment leave the dome and wander among the squatting aliens. Prince Fichael is immediately shat on. The shit, now living, does a dance, then explodes into more shit. Where are the homophobic jokes when you want them? I'm anxious to end this shit.
A snarling band of aliens attack. Glamazon/Schoolmarm try to fight them off, but they ambush Prince Fichael, tear off his arms, and fuck his skull. Fortunately, Cyborg Servant had a change of heart: he bursts into action and disintegrates them (Prince Fichael is fine.) He also has a map to Bazarack's secret lair.
Scene 6: The journey leads through the "nether regions," occupied by Intellectoids (stupid men with multiple breasts), who get disintegrated by a weaponized slide whistle.
Meanwhile, at the secret lair, Bazarack worries that he's not intimidating enough to sell his brand. He has his make-up artist pluck his eyebrows and "make his cheekbones fierce." Rather a feminine make-up regime. Is Bazarack a gay-stereotype villain?
He calls his servant "Clitoris": "because you're red and swollen and I can never find you." Nope, Bazarack is straight: the clitoris is a small organ in the vagina that women use to climax. A straight guy once told me that it's difficult to reach during heterosexual intercourse; you need a superior level of prowess.
A messager arrives: The Czar's son is coming to assassinate Bazarack. "Now we have to redecorate the whole lair!" Swishy-stereotype straight villain.
Scene 7: Next up: a scary forest, and more exploding shit. Schoolmarm flirts with Prince Fichael; Glamazon warns "Stay on your side of our vagina." Fichael: "That won't be a problem. I have a shockingly slender penis."
Whoops, they're back at the human city. Cyborg Servant didn't have a map to Bazarack's lair after all, just a drawing of boobs: Dad paid him to keep Prince Fichael safe.
Suddenly a giant coctopus (which has no cocks, just eyes where the boobs would be) attacks and swallows them. They escape by inflating a giant bounce house, exploding the monster from the inside.
Scene 8: In the lair, Bazarack is busily putting up scary decorations and insulting his servant's wife. "Where the heck is Prince Fichael? Go capture him and bring him here!"
Meanwhile, Renzo is having sex with the Queen. Her vagina really does make his crotch catch fire. He learns that Fichael has been captured. "We have to rescue him before my wife gets back from shopping!"
Scene 9: Fichael and the team appear before Bazarack. "It is my destiny to rid the planet of evil!" Fichael announces. "Huh? Your Daddy is the evil one." Apparently it was the aliens' planet before Renzo invaded, threw them off their land, and grabbed all of their natural resources. Also, humans kidnap and eat alien babies. Bazarack does a song-and-dance to illustrate (more exploding shit).
The team backs up his story; apparently everybody knows that they are the bad guys, except Fichael.
Scene 10: Fichael decides to join Bazarack to fight his evil father, but first he needs a make-over.
Meanwhile, Renzo asks Crazy Scientist for a strategy to "rescue" Fichael. He suggests shrinking everyone and shoving them into each other's butts, like Russian dolls. Inserting things into butts is hilarious.
Scene 11: Fichael spies on Renzo admitting that he actually loves him, so he decides not to betray him. Instead, he decapitates Bazarack and brings his head to Renzo, to earn his respect. Fortunately, Bazarack's species can grow new heads.
Cyborg Servant is happy that he didn't lose his man-part outside, but then he's castrated by a sliding door.
Plot Twists: 2
Scenes with People Being Shat On: 5
Other Times I was Nauseated: 6
Gay Characters: None that I could see. Luke McQuillan, who voices "various characters," is gay in real life.
Want to see him dressed up for a "Halloween Dance Fitness Class" taught by his husband?
Homophobic Jokes: None, darn it! I could have stopped watching a lot earlier. There are a lot of "butt sex is gross!" jokes, however.
Transphobic Jokes: Just the standard feminine guys are funny!" trope until the closing credits. The production company logo features a guy in a dress being grossed out by another guy twirling tassles on his nipples.
My Grade: D