The Monkey and Dog Show #3

I'll be the first to admit it. This is not the best Monkey and Dog have to offer. The concept is funny enough. Play off the idea brought up in "Monkey Business" and "Phantom of the Apartment" that Dog is a detective on the side. Add the idea I came up with a co-worker, that Monkey is a spy, and I thought there would be comic gold.
Kind of.
One problem is that between episode two and this one stands a year of not doing Monkey and Dog in their normal sitcom routine. I even had a hard time getting the voices right again.
When you get to the episode itself, there are pacing problems. Dog's time at the computer, while funny at first, drags on too much. This is another problem of me not scripting at the time, and just seeing what dialog comes out. Sometimes it work and other times I got something like this.
One problem that Monkey has in this episode, that you could say he has in all episodes really, is that his dialog is very drawn out. I never really got a handle on delivering Monkey's dialog without taking forever to do so. Part of the issue, I think, is that Monkey is funniest when he's not talking a lot. His five word comments are always funnier when played off of Dog's whinny nature and the more lines Monkey has, the less funny he is. It also takes away from the moment of rage, the moment where Monkey explodes.
Dog suffered a bit as well, though not as bad as Monkey. I had been using Dog in other videos, so his character was still fresh in my mind. A problem that occurs in this video is that Dog really isn't a victim. While that routine would get old, I'm not sure it had yet. But, when Monkey is subdued and Dog is more out there, the balance is off.
The twist at the end, that Monkey is indeed a spy, came across well. The reveal, the fake accent and the eye patch all made me happy. There were plans for this reveal; Monkey would drop Russian vocabulary, we would meet his parents, and there may have been an evil/good Monkey storyline. But, alas, it was not to be.