RATING: 2 stars
Original air date: 04/24/15
The premise of this show is three around-40-year-old accountants from Cleveland -- Jake Lockhard (Pauly Shore), Mickey Dickson (Kevin Farley) and Nolan Fremont (Jaleel White) -- travel to Hawaii during spring break to try and make out with partying women, many of whom are young enough to be their daughters. The results are predictable, similar to a recent Facebook/YouTube video where some guy, as part of a "social experiment," asks women on the street if they would have sex with him. In the video most of the women are either horrified or just laugh at the guy asking (though he is younger than the three on the show). Same thing for this episode.
The three men are pretending to go to Hawaii to hunt wild boars. In order to do this, they have to transport rifles, and presumably ammuntion, on the planes. This is not particularly easy according to various TSA regulations, and whether this would even be encouraged by the wild game outfits, who would typically supply the hunters with firearms or even crossbows, is a good question. This hunting ruse does not convince one of the men's wives, who leaves him voice mail, calling him a "hairless, ball-less loser."
Speaking of questions, there are plenty of them about this show:
- When the men wake up on the morning after a day and night of wild partying with a huge hangover (comparisons with the hit movie of the same name are inevitable), they find a woman, later identified as Rebecca Oleana, dead in their bathtub. Strangely, none of them noticed this if they went to the bathroom, though presumably the ketamine (date rape drug) later determined by Max to be in their systems scrambled their brains enough to make them avoid seeing her, because not only is Oleana very dead with a bullet in her head, but the tub is full of bloody water and beer bottles.
- Why is ketamine in their systems? Someone obviously slipped this into their drinks, maybe because they were making total fools of themselves at the bars they went to, so someone wanted to get them out of the way or in trouble. Is the bullet in Rebecca's head from one of the men's rifles? Is this ever determined? (I don't think so, see below.)
- One of the accountants gave Rebecca his hotel room key card. In a huge Perry Mason-like plot twist, it is revealed (big spoiler) she was being sought by her terminally ill father who had her during an affair years ago. Rebecca was in line to get half of his $20 million fortune, but her step-brother Raymond Garvey (Todd Robert Anderson), upset that this money, all originally intended for him, would be split with her, was the one who killed her, after chasing her from the Glitter Ball Pit where she worked to the hotel where the accountants' room was located. But was this hotel located right next to the nightclub? The men are staying in room 1710 and Rebecca is shown running down the 17th floor hall with her step-brother right behind her. How could he get there so quickly? By taking another elevator to this floor? If so, how would he know which floor she was going to? Surely he was not in the same elevator as her! After the two of them go into the hotel room, there is the sound of a gunshot almost immediately, suggesting that one of the boar-hunting rifles used by the three accountants was used as the murder weapon. But then you have to ask -- how would he know that there was a weapon there, where it was located, and how could he get it loaded so quickly (presumably it was not)?
- In an unusual move, Garvey asks to be read his rights big time when in the blue-lit room, but, as usual, crumbles almost immediately when confronted with the fact that his step-sister fought back and there are likely traces of his DNA under her fingernails, saying "That money was mine." But has it been proved that he actually killed her? A smart lawyer could make mincemeat of this case if the guy had just kept his trap shut!
- How do the three men from Cleveland get Rebecca's dead body from the hotel bathtub to what they think is some out-of-the-way location where they intend to bury her (actually Diamond Head crater), later resulting in a charge of "hindering prosecution"?
Considering comedian Shore is synonymous with "lame" in certain circles, there was apprehension in some Internet forums about how he would fare on the show, but his performance wasn't bad. On the other hand, Farley overacted, channelling his late brother Chris, especially the scene where he leapt into the ball pit. White's character, the least "comedic" of the trio, was the most rational and sober.
The episode's obligatory sub-plot was dumb. Using a motorcycle, Jerry is delivering food for Kamekona when he notices a woman, later identified via a computerized Identikit as Natalie Morris, being abducted on the street. It turns out that she was grabbed by her criminal business partner named William Malo who she later shoots dead. Morris and Malo are involved in some slave-trafficking operation, where people are lured to Hawaii from other countries and then forced to pick coffee on some plantation (seriously).
Kono and Chin Ho go to the Big Island to investigate this, and deal with it without any help whatsoever from the local cops or anyone else from Five-0. They manage to take out the armed people who are guarding the operation without any problems (there are only two of them) and then drive quickly to the island's Kawaihae Harbor docks where they engage in a firefight with Morris who jumps on to a pallet of coffee being loaded on to a ship. She is shot dead, just like one of the guards at the plantation, and falls into the water. So once again, Five-0 eliminates suspects in a major crime, and this slave-trade crime was a big deal, because the woman and her partner were both wanted by the FBI and featured on "Fugitive Profiles," an "America's Most Wanted"-type TV show.
MORE TRIVIA:
- The police chief giving Jerry an award at the end of the show for his help which led to the capture of the two bad guys is the real current Honolulu police chief, Louis M. Kealoha.
- What is Kakemona referring to by "grinds," meaning the food that Jerry is delivering? Jerry is using the Siri-like Micrsoft Cortana on his cel phone to help him locate the address he has to take the food to.
- During McGarrett and Danno's investigation at one of the spring break party venues, a young woman frolicking in the pool with dozens of other people has her bikini top removed (this is only seen from the back, naturally).
- The three are thrown out of The Fix, a real Honolulu nightclub.
- The letter for Rebecca from estate attorneys Longworth and Motto concerning her parentage, dated April 10, 2015, has her address as 3340 Hukui Ave., #102, Honolulu 96826.
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