The Last Man on Earth will not be back with all-new episodes on Fox until October 1, but yesterday they released a behind-the-scenes photo from the season premiere. In the still everyone is in an inflatable raft, but one person. That person is the last man on Earth. So where is Will Forte? We do not know. That means we have to wait a long month and a half to learn the truth. We also will have to wait to find out why they are lost at sea in a raft and not on the nice yacht they boarded. October cannot come soon enough.
Tonight’s The Last Man On Earth’s season finale is so good, they couldn’t tell it in a half hour. Therefore, it is an hour long and starts at 9p on Fox.
Ever since the first season, Carol (Kristen Schaal) has wanted to continue humankind, after a virus nearly wiped out all of the population, by having babies with Tandy (Will Forte) aka Phil Miller. While they had a lot of sex, Erica (Cleopatra Coleman) was the first to get pregnant by the other Phil Miller, who is no longer with us. On tonight’s season finale, it is finally time for the first baby after the extremely deadly virus to be born.
Since there are just a pinky fingernail full of people left on Earth, there are no doctors there to help her. Gail (Mary Steenburgen) and Todd (Mel Rodriguez) have done as much research as they can but they do not really know anything about birthing no babies. As the moment gets closer, they run into a problem that makes her labor a lot more complicated than they thought. Will she live to see her baby? Will we have the first baby on Earth?
How does hearing Erica’s screaming effect the other mother-to-be Carol? She is days away from having her baby and she will be in the same boat as Erica. She is scared and is hiding from it all in her little house.
She is not the only one having problems with Erica’s difficult birthing experience, so is little Jasper (Keith L. Williams). Melissa (January Jones) tells Tandy to take him to the park to get away from the tense atmosphere. The two boys (let’s be honest, Tandy is a big boy) go to the waterless water park and have some fun. Until they see something that has them say, “Oh farts.”
And that leads us into the second part of the season finale that will completely blow you away and saying, “Oh farts,” a lot, but I can’t tell you why. I want to because it is oh so good, but it will ruin the set up for next season.
And on that note, Fox why haven’t you picked it up for a 4th season already. It is doing better than all of your other comedies. Not only in ratings, but also in creativity and heart. While most end of the world shows are all about people against people, LMOE is about people getting together with people. I want to believe if faced with our worst crisis, we will become better people for it and this is the only show that does. Plus, it makes us laugh! How can you not fall in love with Will Forte. His character is the most lovable one on television. I want a Tandy Miller all for myself.
If you do not know why I am saying that, then tune in to The Last Man on Earth tonight at 9p on Fox and catch up on the other episodes on Hulu. It is the best sitcom you are not watching and you should be tuning in.
Will Forte told Seth Meyers on Late Night that his family and his The Last Man on Earth castmates have given him a nickname and it is Uncle Stinky? Why? Well one day when his niece and nephew came to visit him, he farted around them and they noticed the smell. Ever since then they added stinky to his title. Something he will never get rid because farting is always funny to kids even when they become adults.
So much so, his co-star Mary Steenburgen challenged him to fart every day he is on the set of hilarious Fox comedy. He accepted her challenge, but it has one big rule. They cannot be silent but deadly, you actually have to hear the bomb go off and not just breath in the fumes. Did he succeed? Yes, but sadly for the noses on the set there were some misses.
And folks, that is why he is known as Uncle Stinky. You know, I am thinking he should change the O in his last name to an A. What do you think of that idea?
One last note, the best part of this funny interview because farts are always funny, is when the NBC late night host asked him, “How do you do it?” Without hesitation Farte, I mean Forte, told him, “Out of my butt!” Know we know why Last Man on Earth is as brilliant as it is because the creator is naturally that way. Maybe he will do an episode about his farting? Although, if he did, he might once again become the last man on Earth.
The Last Man on Earth returned yesterday after its winter break with a triumph episode starring pretty much just Kristen Wiig giving a brilliant performance. Yet, there was one scene that has left everyone talking about it.
The Fox sitcom takes place in the future, and yesterday’s episode took place around 2020. During that time, the 46th President of the United States Mike Pence rules America. When and how he took over from 45 we don’t know, but what we do know is that he dies from the virus that is quickly wiping out almost all of the World’s population. Since it is killing everyone in its path, we also lost POTUS 47 Paul Davis Ryan, Jr, POTUS 48 Rex Wayne Tillerson, POTUS 49 Steven Terner Mnuchin, POTUS 50 Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and POTUS 51 Betsy DeVos. I guess that is proof that 45 really will kill us all.
Crap they just took a hilariously funny moment and made me just want to go ball up into a fetal position and cry until there is nothing left to cry.
No seriously, if you are not watching The Last Man on Earth, you are missing out on one of the funniest shows on television that is full of heart. A lot of heart and that is why I love it so much. While most of Apocalyptic shows, end up with it being about humans vs humans like The Walking Dead, Z Nation and Leftovers, on LMOE the surviving human become a family. That is why I get bored with all of those Zombie dramas, which are no longer about people vs the Undead. Instead, they are about survivors battling it out with other survivors. How can humankind survive that? You know what I mean. I want to believe if there were only a few of us left, we would get along and not try to kill each other. Just like on Last Man where the nerdy dude gets to procreate with almost all of the last women on Earth. A tough job, but somebody has to do it. I said, ‘do it!’
On that note since that is Tandy’s (Will Forte) humor, I will once again implore you to watch The Last Man on Earth every Sunday at 9:30p on Fox!
The Last Man on Earth is finally back on Fox tonight at 9:30p and Kristen Wiig stars in the standalone episode that shows us for the first time what it was like when the virus killed almost everyone on Earth.
When we first met Phil Miller (Will Forte) the virus had almost wiped out most of the people on Earth, but we never knew what it was it was like when it was happening. In the first two and a half seasons, we have gotten glimpses of what it was like, but tonight Kristen Wiig finally shows us what really happened.
Pamela Brinton (Wiig) is a rich socialite who heads a foundation that helps dogs like her best friend Jeremy. The episode starts off with her holding a fundrasing gala and then one of the party goers suddenly collapses with blood coming from his nose. It is the first sign they will see of the virus and yet they don’t know how serious it is going to get.
In the coming days her husband and her eat breakfast as nothing going is on. Then she goes on a car ride and that is when she starts to see just how serious it is. There is one image that convinces her it is much more worse than she thought. When she gets home, she is convinced that there is a cure in the works. That is until a very funny gag that will have you applauding proves her wrong.
As time goes on the only survivors are just her husband, her, Jeremy and her arch nemesis Catherine. Catherine and her husband bought an underground bunker to go to until a cure is found. They never make it and neither does Pamela’s husband.
Pamela grabs Jeremy and they move into the bunker where they will spend the next few years. For over half of the episode, it is just her talking to her dog as they try to make time go by faster as they believe they are the Last Two Living Things on Earth. One of those ways to keep themselves busy is a drone and it gives her a glimpse of what the outside world looks like. One day, she will find out that there is life outside the bunker and that is when she will decide to go out to find those other people. And that is where the episode ends. `
Just when you think that Kristen Wiig can’t top herself, she does something like this. The Last Man on Earth gets better each week and tonight’s episode is just another shining example of that.
My only complaint is that we have to wait another week to find out what happened to our original Last People!
