Schitt’s Creek Review: The Bachelor Party (Season 6 Episode 11)

Arguably just as important as the wedding, David and Patrick’s highly anticipated bachelor party is a perfectly timed escape from the real world.

Schitt’s Creek Season 6 Episode 11, “The Bachelor Party,” forces the Roses to spend some quality time together inside a Galapagos themed escape room — because going clubbing just isn’t this show’s style.

The result is an episode exploding with Schitt’s Creek‘s charming brand of self-deprecating humour and witty ridicule. It’s no wonder escaping the clutches of this wonderful series is so impossible.

David and Patrick really have to stop being the best thing that ever happened to television because my love for their couple shenanigans is becoming exhausting.

Schitt’s Creek starts this episode off with character pairings we’ve learned to count on. Patrick finds joy in something as pure as an escape room, David is agitated about everything, and Stevie is enjoying agitating David further. This successful formula for friendship continues to highlight the strongest dialogue and dynamics this series has to offer.

This triple threat only gets better as competitive Patrick is set loose on the escape room. Competetive Patrick is nothing like soft-spoken Patrick, he is very loud and determined — which just makes the entire game that much more fun as spectators.

Of course, it is when David, wearing that amazing bride tiara, finds himself equally invested and starts yelling back that this bachelor party’s success comes to fruition. Although, one could argue this party is a success from the moment Stevie confirms she custom ordered the couple’s novelty t-shirts.

Alexis Rose is a sweatpant-wearing goddess who was once taken hostage on David Geffen’s yacht by Somali pirates for a week, and who has her F Class license because she quote: “had a lot of people to move”.

Alexis may think she’s lost her edge but in actuality, she has learned that with character growth comes the ability to outgrow people and places. And unfortunately, Alexis has outgrown Schitt’s Creek.

This next step in her journey, much like the rest of Alexis’s storyline this season, feels incredibly right for the ex-socialite as she learns to be a stronger version of herself. People outgrow their circumstances and with nothing holding Alexis in one place anymore, it’s time for her to manage more than just her mother.

This mature decision is backed up by the even better decision to highlight the skills Alexis has bragged about in her elaborate backstories by playing into this running joke and legitimizing it as an actual character strength.

What comes next is the greatest female lead escape room solve in television history (don’t bother checking, I’m right) and one of my favourite out of context lines from Schitt’s Creek ever — “It means we have to find something from Egypt like mummies, Rami Malek, a pyramid.”

Alexis is having one hell of a season in terms of growth — yet so are Alexis and David as siblings.

Sibling relationships are incredibly complex and fluctuating things of nature, and they are almost always reduced to a stiff laugh in television comedy.

Well, Schitt’s Creek proves once again that David and Alexis can have their cake and eat it too when it comes to portraying a sarcastic, but deep, sibling relationship.

After all, it was David that pushed Ted to go after Alexis and it was next to David that Alexis first amitted she loved Ted. It seems only right David would find a way to comfort Alexis with his own special brand of comedy as she struggles to get over her recent breakup.

Alexis: Do you think it died because it outgrew its little pot?

David: No, I watched you slowly kill it.

Alexis discussing the meaning of the dead plant with David and confiding in him her decision to leave the town is a big step forward for their relationship, but it’s one the series has been building to for years now.

This series has a goal to have these two so incredibly fleshed by the time Alexis walks David down the aisle that we break down right there on the spot. If it means we get a few more precious moments between these two, I’m okay with that.

I’m bummed to see Moira’s first attempt at voice acting didn’t pan out — not using that accent in a Pixar movie is wasted potential, if you ask me. Thankfully our disappointment is quickly eased by Alexis’s incredible attempt to mimic her mother’s dodgy mannerisms.

While Johnny continues to kill it as a new motel tycoon, his phone obsession is incredibly distracting to not only him but to the story this episode is telling. It puts a distance between him and the others at the beginning of the party that seems redundant of the growth the series has explored recently.

However, soon enough the phone gag pays off as it leads to Johnny not only learning he is the only one that relinquished his phone to do the escape room, but that everyone was leaving messages on his phone during the game as well.

His obsession with his phone also leads to the climax of a beautiful family moment that starts when the Roses begin yelling at Alexis to solve the puzzle (supportively, of course) and finishes with a beautiful group embrace in celebration of Johnny and Stevie’s first successful business transaction.

Rose family gatherings are always momentous, which is why Schitt’s Creek only reserves them for special occasions. So when one like this comes along that involves the entire family in such a fun way, all we can do is sit back and rejoice in the pure joy about to unfold.

The moments spent in that escape room with our favourite TV family are some of the messiest, sarcastic, and chaotic minutes of the entire series. But we wouldn’t have an outing with them go any other way.

From the constant mixups involving Jodie Foster’s Panic Room to the prideful display of those adorable baby pictures, this is a particular episode we will cherish in Schitt’s Creek‘s final days — and long after.

Here’s to hoping when Stevie plans Alexis’s bachelorette party one day, it’s just as fun as this episode was to watch and half as dangerous as Alexis in her twenties.

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Schitt’s Creek airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on CBC and Pop TV.

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