SUMMARY: One morning, grumpy and bathrobe-clab Phil
Deville grouses to his wife, Connie, about how the neighborhood
keeps treating him like a hero. He just wants to eat his
breakfast in peace and get his son, Junior, to do the weed
whacking (which Junior declines to do because he's a musician
and has delicate hands - although his band is a Nickelback
tribute band, much to his father's derision), but his life is a series of accidental
heroic actions, and everybody keeps calling him to ask him to
help them. Even as he sits at the kitchen table, the phone keeps
ringing; when he finally answers at Connie's insistence, it's
someone asking him to help find his dog... and right at that
moment, the missing dog starts barking on Phil's lawn. When Phil
goes out to do the weed whacking, a mugger runs by and trips
over Phil's weed whacker, severing his foot - and making him a
hero to the woman whose purse was stolen. A reporter immediately
appears on the scene, covering the story of the wonderful hero
who stopped the mugger; the woman sings Phil's praises while
Phil just fumes.
Photos by Victor
Isaac
EPISODE TWO (11/21/15)
SUMMARY: Phil's irritated with Junior when he eats
the last Pop Tart - Phil's regular breakfast, and is also
irritated that Junior's band now not only covers Nickelback, but
Toto. After he makes Junior go out to mow the lawn, Connie
brings up a night of karaoke in 1985 when Phil sang Toto - a
night she promised she'd never mention. As a condition of
keeping the secret, a giggling Connie makes Phil sing "Rosanna"
for her. Phil subsequently goes to McDonald's to get some
breakfast, staying in his bathrobe 'cause he's not gonna get out
of the car. However, when the speaker at the drive-thru is
broken, he has to go inside, where the kid working the register
looks strangely like Junior. Phil ends up accidentally foiling a
robbery when the gunman collides with him and Phil's hot coffee
scalds the gunman, putting out his eye. The reporter arrives to
declare Bathrobe Man to be a hero once more, and Phil's as
unhappy as ever about it.
Photos by Victor
Isaac
EPISODE THREE (4/9/16)
- PLAYOFFS ROUND 1!
SUMMARY: The reporter has taken to standing outside
Phil's house, much to his annoyance. Also annoying: Junior's
cover band has added Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" to their
repertoire. As Phil takes their new dog, a "Bo-Pug-Ese," for a
walk, Phil is accosted by a neighbor lady jogging who is a fan
of his, and tries to steal his belt. Moments later, the dog
suddenly drags Phil to some bushes, where a bag of cocaine is
discovered - leading the reporter to pop up and declare that
Bathrobe Man has just busted the biggest drug ring in the
country. "It's just ONE BAG," grouses the accidental hero as the
media once again lionizes him.