Didn't expect to be hit with the professor being transphobic in the first 4 minutes (/j to be clear, he just a comment he makes about Jorjie's singing saying she should try voice training that took me out and had to pause for laughter)

I ended up waiting about an hour or so after watching the episode to write this review, and I've already forgotten a lot of what happened. Good aliens was a nice change of pace and made me realize that we've had surprisingly few of them for how much The Department is meant to be villainous.

The aliens themselves were kind of interesting, and the effects weren't half bad this time. The acting unfortunately still very much was.

Overall, 4/10

4️⃣⏹️ = UNENJOYABLE!

Barking through time and space, one adventure at a time!

“STAR WARS MEETS DOCTOR WHO!”

K9 and the Wannabe Robomen (suddenly talking with a weird accent) discussing fishing is a new level of cringe. And it gets worse once we get Forgettable Girl jamming to a bad song and Annoying Kid bumping into her with a stack of books.

We are back to the weird and stupid monster here, with the strange Jawa Ghosts. They are hardly seen, though.

They also bring back a farting K9. Sigh!

Villain Mother and Smug Face return, and we get some more of their lovely onscreen chemistry. Smug Face is using the Jawa Ghosts in his latest evil plan!

The kids and K9 investigate, and their interplay is still so very stiff. The same goes for the scene between Villain Mother and Dull Professor.

The tension is very artificial here and partly killed by the bad acting. The climax is sort of fun, but oh so wooden.

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS:

“Have you ever considered voice training?” Ooooh, Dull Professor, that's a proper roast!

This was not, by any means, a good episode. It was, however, a hilarious episode - probably inadvertently because I suspect some of the acting was intended to be good, but nevertheless this has easily been the most amusing episode of K9 so far. Maybe I'm going insane too.

This was like Counter-Measures: The Pelage Project if that episode was bad. The plot was so thin it was invisible and made no sense, and the acting was worse than usual, if that's even possible for this show. It was bloody funny though.