My new fave TV show: Testees

You're all aware by now of my love for Kenny vs Spenny, well now there's a new show that has edged it out of its top spot. And get this, it's the brainchild of Kenny, he's the producer, creator and director! Its on Showcase every Monday at 10:30pm, Tuesday & Friday at 9pm ET/PT (whatever that is in Mountain Time).



From the Showcase website: "Testees is a half-hour comedy about two best friends and roommates who work as test subjects for TESTICO, an experimental drug & product testing facility. Peter and Ron are thirty-something adolescents refusing to grow up and like most guys, seek fame, fortune, and females. In each episode the guys are given an experimental product, medication or treatment to test. They then have to deal with whatever ridiculous side-effects occur while trying to go about their lives." See the commercial below...



The episode last week was probably the funniest one yet, and that's really saying something. Ron and Steve were to test muscle relaxants and right before they were about to gulp them down, while Steve (the Spenny of this show) was distracted by something, Ron (the Kenny) slipped his pills into his cup. Steve was like instantly paralyzed from the neck down, he could only blink and move his eyes around. Ron then had to act as his caretaker until the pills wore off.

Poor Steve was basically tortured for two days, I can't even list all the ways, but here are some: Ron got confused if one blink meant yes and two meant no, so every time Steve meant no (blinking frantically) Ron was like, "Yes?"; Ron came up with the idea to go through the alphabet so Steve could blink to spell out what he wanted to eat, but because Ron was saying it like, "A.......B.......C....." poor Steve couldn't hold his eyes open long enough to spell out "soup" and ended up eating a jellybean omelet (which he couldn't chew, of course, not being able to move his jaw), so Ron chewed up the food and spit it into his mouth, gak!; Ron thought that Steve blinked 'yes' when he asked if he was cold so he bundled him up in layers of clothes and blankets, Steve is sweating profusely and frantically blinking 'no' when Ron asks him "Still cold?" which of course Ron takes to mean 'yes' and so he parks his wheelchair in front of the open oven which is set at 500; Ron brushes Steve's teeth with the toothbrush they use to clean the toilet; it goes on and on.

At the very end, a nurse comes to relieve Ron of his caretaking duties. Ron is sleeping on the couch when she comes over and she mistakes him for Steve. Seeing that she is smoking hot, Ron plays along, especially when she asks if he wants a spongebath. Then, before Ron even knows what is happening, she pulls out a huge syringe, pokes him in the arm with it, and tells him its a muscle stimulant to counteract the relaxant, extra strength of course seeing as how they never realized how strong the pills were. Instantly, Ron is running around, going crazy, arms and legs flailing, body wildly shaking and jerking, and he ends up running out an open window in their apartment (which is two floors up), landing naked on the cement.

The next scene shows Ron in a full-body cast, jaw and mouth wired open, and Steve coming out of the kitchen holding a frying pan. He says something like, "Isn't it funny that I was paralyzed for two days and you're going to be in that body cast for six weeks? Don't worry though, I'll take of you exactly the same way you took care of me. Are you hungry? I've made your favorite - jellybean omelet." Ron's eyes bug out and the scene fades to black.