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Dre just gets a bad haircut because… the episode wants him to have a bad haircut, because it’s the most important thing to him next to God and shrimp (his wife is somewhere below that on the list, right around “clean sneakers,” reinforcing just how wonderful these people are). Junior’s haircut gets messed up, but only because his barber was in a fistfight while he was cutting (“he even changed guards!”).

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With such attention paid to how awful his barber’s work has gotten, this story just kind of drifts around in the familiar, shallow waters of Dre complaining at a high pitch: at the barber, his wife, his son… and none of it really lands anywhere, unless you count using the social construct of the barbershop to teach his son how to treat women like crap.īut why is Dre getting such a bad haircut? Jack’s hair isn’t screwed up – and not once does this episode offer us anyone else who even suggests he might be screwing someone else’s hair up. The weirdest part about Dre’s story is not how it turns his son into a complete douche (which it does Junior finds new ways to be annoying throughout the episode) it’s how “Chop Shop” never tries to answer why Dre is the only one getting a terrible haircut.

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“Chop Shop” is definitively one of those episodes, centered around the conflicts arising from Dre’s barber and Bow’s Christmas card, relying exclusively on one-liners and visual gags to drive an entirely inconsequential episode of the series – and oddly, one that exists without resolution in either of its leading stories, which makes the whole affair feel like an unfinished thought. Dre Johnson is a loud man with a big personality, so it’s no surprise when Black-ishtries to inject him into smaller, insignificant stories, the balance of the show feels off.