The Most Awesome Thing I Saw Last Week: Bow Before McBride! (Feb 11-17)
As played by McBride (who was hilarious in Foot Fist Way and Tropic Thunder, and actually managed to pack up Pineapple Express and steal it right out from under Rogen and Franco), Kenny exhibits the social cluelessness of Michael Scott, only without the part where he wants people to like him. In the first episode, we see him snort cocaine, bully small children, and hire an escort over the phone. (“Can I wear the Scream mask? The mask from Scream… you know, when I do you from behind.”) He listens to his own autobiography on tape (I’m F*cking In, You’re F*cking Out), as read by Kenny Powers, in his car. He casually drops absolutely filthy language whether he’s teaching a class, being interviewed on TV, or addressing the school on the PA. And, in a moment that made me laugh so hard that I had to get up and walk around afterward, he tries the single most inappropriate ice-breaker ever: “Hey, I just saw a couple of kids raping a sixth-grader… Naw, I’m just kidding.”