![]() ![]() She coos and growls her way into Nick and Andrew’s friend Jessi’s life, saying all the things Jessi is too busy blushing or rolling her eyes to say. Thankfully, there’s also a hormone monstress, the curvaceous and sashaying Connie (Maya Rudolph). Perhaps the most refreshing thing about it is the recognition that hey! Girls deal with more than just shedding uterine walls! Big Mouth stays grounded even in its most ridiculous moments (i.e., Jewish penises and the seduction of diarrhea-inducing hor dourves), acknowledging the differences and similarities boys and girls experiences during this magically terrible time. It may all seem to be thrown off when you see unexplained cameos from the ghosts of folks like Freddie Mercury, Socrates, Antonin Scalia (on the drums!) and Nick’s good attic-dwelling-friend Duke Ellington, but stay with me here.Īlso, you’ll never look at Sylvester Stalone the same ever again. Though it might seem exaggerated to some, to many it will be laughable and oddly heartwarming as you say, “Oh my god, exactly,” every few minutes. From finding pleasure in a pillow hole with organic lentil soup and first-period-on-white-shorts field trip woes to the confusion of sexuality and revolutionary introductions to porn, you’ll feel it in your soul. Take the names of the first five episodes for example: “Ejaculation,” “Everybody Bleeds,” “Am I Gay,” “Sleepover: A Harrowing Ordeal of Emotional Brutality” and “Girls Are Horny Too.” Need I say more? It’s an honest yet tender account of puberty in the most refreshing way. The awesome thing about Big Mouth is that it’s not just a personification of the ragingly-hormonal boys you sat next to in science class (I’m still haunted by the word organism). ![]() Nick, on the other hand, has yet to start puberty and is confused why everyone around him is acting weird, especially when he catches a glimpse of Andrew’s more-developed member. Maury visits him at the worst possible moments (i.e., slow dances) and gives voice to his most crude and salacious desires - especially the most lewd and unwanted. ![]() Andrew is beginning to experience puberty at full force, and continues to be forced by his “hormone monster” Maury (Kroll, but with more grit and less filter). ![]() Nick (Kroll) and Andrew (John Mulaney) are best friends. Boy Meets World? The Wonder Years? Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret? Haven’t we seen this before? It follows a group of middle schoolers experiencing puberty at different levels and paces. In not-so-short, it has psychosomatic monsters convincing seventh graders to masturbate while dead jazz legends sing and cartoon penises play sports. In short, it gives its audience a fun, sex-positive take on puberty and everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) that comes with it. I think it goes without saying it was inspired by their own experiences, and those of everyone else in the world. Big Mouth is an animated comedy born from a supergroup of comedians, including Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg. It’s been on Netflix for several months now, so consider me a later bloomer, but it’s a show that is never going to not be relevant. Let me just say this: Big Mouth is not for the faint-hearted, the queezy-stomached or the blushed-cheeks. ![]()
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