Lab Rats: The Rats Strike Back (2013)
Season 2, Episode 7
5/10
Imagine if real lab rats could go on strike
30 November 2017
Again we have Davenport showing his unblemished jerk side, and this time the plot is more involved than "Robot Fight Club". This is a good funny ep (with one notable exception: Who thought "NASA called, they want their nerd back" remotely approaches humor?), but the human side should have been developed more. Leo's feelings of inadequacy are a running theme of the series, so the fact that we get no emotional reaction from Leo when he finds out that Donald was just pretending to employ him as a test pilot to bluff the bionic siblings is a huge oversight. Again this series cuts out heart to make room for pie-in-the-face humor (in this case, a lame sequence in which an anti-grav belt flings Leo around the house).

So yeah, I've actually pointed out more unfunny bits than funny ones, but really, there's some good dialogue here, and I like that the ep throws in genuinely funny background touches without pointing them out, like Adam's "I'm so angry I made this sign" sign. Leo's friendship with the rats is dug into, albeit not as much as it could have been, and overall, as usual, this episode of Lab Rats entertains.
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