“Sacrifice” wasn’t much funnier
than last week’s installment of Wilfred, but it was still an
improvement. For the second time in as many episodes, Ryan was
contemplating freeing himself from the unhealthy relationship he
shares with Wilfred, but the crazed canine was having none of that.
“Sacrifice” just wasn’t that entertaining, though it was less
from the jokes that fell flat and more because of a general lack of
trying. In fact, this episode had the emotional scenes one would
normally associate with a season finale, as opposed to its lead in.
Ryan’s escape plan came in a much
prettier package this week(sorry Dwight Yoakam), and even spoke
Italian. Cinzia, the Mediterranean beauty that Ryan meets on the
beach, was a too good to be true type of girl, certainly from where
Ryan was sitting. Of course before any talk about leaving the
country could come up, the two had to get to know each other.
Unsurprisingly, Wilfred gives them about two minutes to do so before
he sets to ruining their budding romance. His appearance did earn
the first laugh of the episode(besides Ryan’s deer-in-the-headlights
stare as he moons over Cinzia), so he can be forgiven for being such
a poor wingman. Comparing the sacrifice Ryan has to make in picking
up Jenna’s dry cleaning to the sacrifice the Roman soldiers made in
killing Jesus brought an outburst of laughter, made even better by
Wilfred’s convincing sympathy for those poor centurions. Being the
weak-willed runt that he is, Ryan of course kowtows to Wilfred’s
whining and passes on a date with someone who could be Italy’s
entrant in the Miss Universe Pageant. Granted, the pair’s stopoff at
the marijuana dispensary was certainly more entertaining than
rollerblading would have been.
