February 8, 2019



Stupid clichés.

Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. While “My Furry Valentine” is a fun super-sized Valentine’s Day special, it’s still an installment that’s connected to the overall story of the show. Accordingly, Valentine’s Day is typically a powder keg of tension in school settings and Big Mouth effortlessly taps into that uncomfortable energy. "My Furry Valentine" is a special double-length Valentine's Day episode of Big Mouth. [Andrew] ~I can't take it, all the pressure How long can I be a fuck machine?I'll be cool, and she'll be drolin'Why is there never anyone for me?But then what if the KnicksAren't on TV?Valentine, St. ValentineYour day is fuckin' asinineBut I swear by GodI'm gonna make it through! Netflix announced on Friday that a new holiday-themed episode will arrive next Friday, in plenty of time for the romantic festivities the following week. Sort by. Daniel Kurland |

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Andrew adopts a cocky, cool, kangol-wearing persona for the holiday, which is a delightfully embarrassing display. share.

The special also excels at finding lots of inventive fantasy sequences that act as cute metaphors for sexual activity. The installment provides many opportunities for Andrew and Maurice to just riff and banter with each other and it could seriously go on for the entire episode and I wouldn’t get tired of it. Remove the doubt, and you’re left with someone truly ugly—a person who doesn’t hesitate to strip every bit of agency from the girl he’s tepidly pursuing. Cupid’s arrow strikes all of these hapless, confused adolescents and gets to cover most of the more universal moments of this holiday, like the difficult in gift giving, ironic Valentine’s Day dates, or the anxiety involved in sending out Valentines and if they’ll be reciprocated.

"My Furry Valentine" is a special double-length Valentine's Day episode of Big Mouth. Big Mouth isn’t averse to tackling more complex topics about sexuality, but it’s encouraging to see more of that conversation happening with Nick.

It’s going to be a journey you rarely see on TV, and especially within the confines of an animated sitcom. Ask questions and download or stream the entire soundtrack on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, & Amazon.

“My Furry Valentine” eschews plenty of romantic comedy tropes, but also gleefully plays into them and features a handful of musical numbers that help give this holiday special a little extra energy.

My Furry Valentine

If you were at that party and had an ounce of courage, you’d do everything in your power to stop the girl from leaving with that guy, for her own safety. Never has that last sentence been more true than in Big Mouth’s just-released Valentine’s Day special, “My Furry Valentine.” In its 45-minute runtime, this brilliant piece of writing preys on the audience’s reliance on TV tropes, presenting us with what is essentially one protagonist’s long self-destruction and descent into outright villainy, even as the viewer remains convinced that some kind of absolution must be just over the horizon. It also ended up in our top 10 of our roundup of the Best Streaming Shows of All Time. There are moments in almost any episode of Big Mouth that feel achingly familiar to those of us (almost all of us) whose junior high years represented a constant stream of embarrassing, sexually motivated faux pas we’ve spent the years since trying to forget. Everyone gets their moment to shine in this episode and even more tertiary characters get to make satisfying appearances.

Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as blaming Andrew’s kangol hat, either—even if Nick posits that “he builds the character out from the hat.” It’s the certainty of Missy’s supposed feelings that imbues Andrew with the unearned confidence of a men’s rights activist, and the gall to proclaim that by the end of Valentine’s Day, she’ll be “eating out of my cool, clammy hands.” His attitude suggests a frightening reality—that this entitlement has been in Andrew’s mind all along, tempered only by his neurotic self-doubt. Valentine’s Day is a routinely awkward time of the year for many people, but this is especially the case for impressionable children who are still very much coming to terms with their hormones and sexuality in the first place.

These kids get to freak out over all sorts of Valentine’s Day minutiae. They’re really good, too (especially a new rendition of the show’s theme, “Changes”)! And of course, because this is Big Mouth’s take on Valentine’s Day, “My Furry Valentine” is just as crude, shocking, and endearing as the rest of the series.
In any other sitcom, this would be our obvious indicator that Andrew and Missy were due to reunite once more in Season Three.

Hopefully they will continue to be a team as the show moves forward.

Daniel Kurland is a published writer, comedian, and critic whose work can be read on Den of Geek, Vulture, Bloody Disgusting, and ScreenRant.

Special “Big Mouth: My Furry Valentine” premieres February 8 on Netflix. Everyone in this cast is excellent, but Kroll and Mulaney’s long-time friendship helps their scenes together resonate on another level.

[Verse 1] / She was the color of TV / Her mouth curled under, like a metal snake / Although Holy Wood was sad / They'd remember this as Valentine's Day / [Pre-Chorus] / Flies are Big Mouth My Furry Valentine Sing-Along Netflix.


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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Big Mouth pulls out all of the stops in a sublime Valentine’s Day special that perfectly taps into the romantic ennui of the holiday. It’s genuinely hard to watch, and that’s the whole point: Andrew becomes his worst self in “My Furry Valentine.”. What Andrew did has to stick, and if he wants his way back into the good graces of anyone, he’s going to have to grapple with the worst aspects of his own gender. It’s all the more wracking when you realize that the seed of Andrew’s downfall is something we initially took to be a hopeful positive—the fact that he learned Missy was still carrying a torch for him while visiting the The Department of Puberty at the end of Season Two. :Lyrics It's a day of hugs and snuggles A time to spread your loving seedsIt's a rolling, growing pink snowballOf stress that no one needsIt's unhealthy expectationAn opportunity to impress It's a yearly grim reminderThat your life's a fucked-up messIt's a dark lurid historyOf deviant pagan kicks Its outrageously expensiveJust stay home and watch the KnicksIt's a big fat middle fingerTo those who are all alone Whether sick or tired or uninspired You still gotta bring the boneIt's a clusterfuck of passions An emotional tour de force It's a cuddly little cupidWith the cock of a full-grown horseValentine, St. Valentine I gotta make it through your dayOf candy hearts and chocolate sharts And every bullshit love clichéThe hard-ons and the heartachesThe pressure, pain, and fearValentine's DayGot to survive you another year[Nick] ~What does having a girl hormone monster mean? All Rights Reserved.

Big Mouth has always been a show easy to overlook, pigeonhole or dismiss out of hand. It is the twenty-first episode of the series overall.

That means some extra time spent with the series stellar cast, led by Kroll, Jessi Klein, and John Mulaney. further reading: How Big Mouth Grew Up in Season 2. Sometimes holiday specials can give off a different vibe than the usual episodes of a show, but this feels just like a regular installment. Director "Big Mouth Valentine's Day Song -cover-" Close.

But maybe a new Valentine’s Day special will do the trick. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft.

Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! © 2020 Paste Media Group. I confess that I did so myself during its first two seasons on Netflix, after affording the premise a few scant moments of scrutiny. Plot threads from the end of the second season get carried over and it’s fair to say that those that miss this episode may feel a little out of the loop when the show’s third season officially begins.

“Guys, can we just tone it down this year for Valentine’s Day?”. He’s revealed to not truly care about Missy at all, beyond “wanting” her as a vague status symbol. Instead, Big Mouth points out a truth we don’t like to acknowledge: That the illusion of certainty makes us take things for granted. Valentine's Day is the first song in the episode My Furry Valentine. DIANE It's a day of hugs and snuggles ELLIOT A time to spread your loving seeds NICK It's a rolling, growing pink snowball Of stress that no one needs ANDREW But where each of those stories takes a logical next step in the direction they’ve been progressing, Andrew falls off a cliff. When The Reclamation of Andrew Glouberman begins, we’ll be there. Even with his own hormone monster pleading with him for some kind of sanity, Andrew goes completely and utterly over the edge.

Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. This new special installment (called “My Furry Valentine”) will return the familiar “Big Mouth” crew and all their respective anxieties.