If you haven’t heard of Netflix’s animated series “Big Mouth” you might be missing out. The show, which released its second season earlier this month, the TV-MA cartoon focuses on a group of middle schoolers going through puberty. While, for the most part, the boys are visited by the Hormone Monster, a manifestation of their pubescent minds voiced by co-creator Nick Kroll, the girls are visited by the Hormone Monstress, voiced by Maya Rudolph. The Hormone Monstress is, without a doubt, the best part of the show.
The Hormone Monstress and Monster in Netflix’s “Big Mouth.” Photo courtesy of ClipZui.com
These two characters, but especially the female Monstress, voice all of the kids innermost desires and their thoughts as they start going through puberty, so they’re often saying especially ridiculous things. “This boy is a tall lumpy dumpt drink of water and we are thirsty,” “Like Stanley Kowalski picking you up and thrusting you onto a kitchen counter like you ain’t nothing” and “because I don’t use deoterant and I only take bubble baths” are some of her best lines. On their own, they’re relatively amusing, but the way Rudolph changes her voice and enunciates random letters have me dying of laughter each episode.
The Hormone Monster and Monstress often meet to bargain sex between the kids they’re helping, much like a corporate boardroom. It’s ridiculous and overtly provocative, but the metaphor for teenager’s pubescent urges is prevalent and interestingly done.
While her pronounciation of “buhbble bahyth” is hysterical, I think the best moment of the series is when the Monstress convinces Jessie to shoplift from the pharmacy. She totally embodies the thoughts everyone’s had at least once, and the way she screams the F-word with emphasis on random, drawn out letters consistently kills me.
Of course, there are plenty of other reasons to watch “Big Mouth.” Kroll and John Mulaney are both also great as the boys (among other roles) and Coach Steve is the weirdest, most innpropriate gym/sex ed teacher in existance (he refers to sex as making “thick in the warm”). The show really is terribly innapropriate and tries to push the boandries as much as possible, but since it’s a cartoon, it’s more acceptable. It really accurately portrays kids minds as they start becoming adults while still being laugh out loud funny.
The first two seasons of “Big Mouth” are available to stream on Netflix right now.
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