We’ve reached the end of Season Two, and like the end of Season One, there will be laughter and a whole lot of tears. In Season Two, Episode Ten, “Embarrassed,” Awesome Show reaches the apotheosis of its themes of competition and wicked fathers. From the nonsensical, joyous “Tumblers Better than Pumpers” song, to the rivalry that forms this episode’s main saga, competition forms the narrative core of this episode

Awesome Show continues its exploration of family with Season Two, Episode Nine, “Pepperoni.” Throughout seasons one and two, Awesome Show returns again and again to the idea of family. While dads and dad-adjacent imagery have been fully explored, Season Two focuses more closely on motherhood.

Season Two, Episode Eight is a loving tribute to all of Cinco’s tacky glory. A companion piece to the much darker Season Cinco episode “Greene Machine,” “Innernette” combines everything we love about the Cinco Corporation: pointlessness, inelegance, and greed. Capitalism, like Fatherhood, has long been a staple of Awesome Show’s irreverent humor.

With Season Two, Episode Seven, “Robin,” Tim and Eric lovingly lampoon Robin Williams years before his tragic death. Along with a truly silly Cinco product and Richard Dunn in his strangest role yet, “Robin” is one of Awesome Show’s sweeter entries. Season Two is full of break-neck emotional turns: compassionate to creepy, nihilistic to sentimental, often within the same sketch.

Awesome Show Season Two, Episode Six continues the story of Carol and Mr. Henderson, we get a visit from auteur Glen Tennis, and Cinco introduces a new line of sweets to appeal to all types of children--including boys and athletes! Season 1, Episode Five “Chunky,” first introduced the sadistic relationship between Carol and Mr. Henderson. The theme of this previous episode was the instability of reality, and this idea was explored through both the Carol and Mr. Henderson segments as well as the “Spider Web Attack”.

Midway through Season Two, we will be exposed to some of Awesome Show’s most gruesome sights as well as hitherto unexplored depths of tenderness. Marrying the grotesque, the sentimental, and the downright delightfully weird, Episode Five, “Forest,” is like a hike through the woods--dangerous, sometimes uncomfortable, but ultimately, rewarding. Parenthood, as it has been pictured in Awesome Show, is usually explored through the lens of fatherhood.

Building on the madness of “Dolls,” Season Two, Episode Four’s “Coma” amps up the alienation, torment, and existential dread. With a little help from some unscrupulous products, Tim and Eric have to confront greater peril than ever before. Consumerism has long been a fascination with Awesome Show, and nowhere is it more apparent than in this episode

Do you want a danger with your surrealism? Don’t bother with Buñuel’s blasphemy or Dali’s Oedipal ticks. If it’s slow crawling sincere strangeness you want, look no further than the postmodern masterpiece Season Two, Episode Three “Dolls.”

Ahhh, fatherhood. A rite of passage, a state of guaranteed manhood, and source of endless, merciless mockery. Just as Episode One continued the love affair with all things fatherly that began with “Tom Goes to the Mayor,” Season Two, Episode Two, “Dad’s Off,” ups the ante by defining fatherhood in terms of another Awesome Show favorite: unstinting competition.