Welp, the second part to surf n turf wars is finally here. I honestly thought it wasn't going to come out this year. Guess I was wrong.

Anyway, greetings fellow Eddheads! I'm your host Lbat1901 and I'm back with another exciting review. Today we will be talking about Surf n Turf Pt. 2. So, get your surf boards and swimming gear because we're heading back to the beach

Oh? What's that? You forgot what happened in the last episode? Oh, don't worry, I'll give you quick reminder with my epic narration voice.

*clears throat* 

Last time on Eddsworld Ball Z, the UK is suffering from a record high of extreme heat. The boys decided to go the beach after seeing a soda ad on tv. Once they got settled, the boys spilt. 

Matt goes off to collect sea creatures while Edd and Tom face off against three beach bullies who challenge them in a beach competition or in this case, a fun-petition. Edd and Tom got off to a rough start during the first contest. Meanwhile, a barrel containing a strange liquid substance falls off a ship and makes its way to the beach.

Not caring about his worries, Matt continues to collect sea creatures and he encounters a lobster. The lobster pinches Matt's eye which causes him to stumble into the barrel and causing it to break open. Matt mutants into a giant lobster monster due to being exposed to the mysterious substance from the barrel and roars.

Will MattLobster go on a rampage and destroy the beach? Will Edd and Tom stop their mutated friend? Find out in the next exciting episode of Eddsworld Ball Z!! 

The Plot

The episode opens up with a shot of a shark swimming along with a sign that reads "The Buoys". We see a stunt devil named Blonzie getting ready to make a dangerous jump while a few audience members begs him not to jump. Blonzie tells them that no one tells him what to do and proceeds to make the jump. Unfortunately for Blonzie, a shark jumps out of the water and kills him. Rest in peace, Blonzie. You may have only appeared for a few seconds, but you will never be forgotten.

After this unfortunate incident, we cut to a very muscular Tom who about ready to throw a volleyball while asking, well us the viewer, if we're ready to see the second part of Surf n Turf Wars and the volleyball match that they're playing as they face off against the beach bullies aka Josh and his lackeys. Yes Tom, we're ready and so is a very muscular Edd. Tom throws the ball into the air and Edd, with all his might, hits it. The beach bullies attempt to hit the ball back, but were crushed by the volleyball. 

As Edd and Tom celebrate their victory, we cut to MattLobster who was roaring. Instead of going on a rampage, MattLobster picks up his bucket of sea creatures completely not bothered by his sudden transformation. He proceeds to put more sea creatures into his bucket. It wasn't until, he tries to put a whale into the bucket. The whale slowly starts to get annoyed at MattLobster and ends up spouting water right into his face. MattLobster stumbles backwards as he knocks boats away. Luckily, he manages to catch himself and gives the whale a death glare before noticing the boats that he ran into. 

Before he does anything else, an ice cream truck pulls up and he immediately goes to it while dropping both his bucket and whale. The bucket lands on a man's chest and before he could even react, he gets crushed by the whale. 

As MattLobster approaches the ice cream truck, the people that were already there by it run away out of fear. MattLobster picks up the ice cream truck and begins licking the ice cream cone that was top of the truck. He stops licking it when he realizes that it wasn't real ice cream and drops the truck. The truck lands on a police car and the officer that was next to it begins calling for the military, the navy, the coast guard, and the girl scouts. We then get a moment where the officer's partner talks to him and they share a bonding moment which was nice to see.

Meanwhile, we see Edd and Tom in a tug-o-war match with Josh and his lackeys. Tom notices that they're missing someone and takes out a pack of Beach Hunks and uses water to make them grow. Edd notices them and asks Tom what are they and Tom tells Edd not to worry about them. 

Roman, the guy who's in charge of the contests from the last part, blows a whistle and the two teams begin pulling. Josh and his lackeys ended up beating Edd and Tom along with killing off the two Beach Hunks that Tom summoned to help them. Tom cries as his creations die as the beach bullies get a point. 

Back with MattLobster, the entire British naval force and coast guard make their way over to him. Inside in one of the ships, a female commander talks about her disgust towards MattLobster even to goes as far as to call him hostile. MattLobster just looks at her and waves a friendly "hello". The commander tells the ships to attack MattLobster which angers him and causes him to attack all the ships that were firing at him. One of the people on the ship says that the rounds aren't doing anything to MattLobster and the commander presses a button that activates a montage. 

Throughout this epic montage that beautifully drawn, we get to see MattLobster fighting an entire army and we also get Edd and Tom competing against the beach bullies. There was a spelling bee which Edd and Tom took literally by releasing a lot of bees, a surf off between Edd and Josh, a drag race. 

Wait... did I get that right? A drag race? Mmmm... Edd and Tom do look good in drag. I like it.

I would like to put out that in one of the scenes of MattLobster, Kim and Katya were seen escaping. I wasn't expecting to see them. It's nice to see them in a episode again. They've lacking in appearances since the beginning of Beyond. 

Anyway, the montage ends when MattLobster gets his claw caught in net and ends up throwing a ship right at a crushing ship causing it sink. We then get a Titanic reference with Rose shoving Jack into the water and forces him to drown. 

Back with the navy commander, she orders for canons to be fired at MattLobster which ended up bouncing off of him and they end up destroying nearby ships. MattLobster continues his rampage and destroys even more ships. 

Oh and can we talk about this moment with the guy and his binoculars for a quick sec? Is that Sonic and Shrek in my Eddsworld? Coincidence? I think not! 

Up in the sky, we see a girl scout troop leader talking to a bunch of girl scouts. The troop leader orders them to jump out of the plan and defend their country. They even brought cookies which MattLobster notices. Instead of catching the one girl scout that had the cookies or you know, catching all of them, he ends up eating all of them when they got close this o his mouth. Yes, you heard you that right. He literally eats them along with the cookies. 

....I think that's enough Eddsworld for one day. 

Anywho... Back on dry land, the last and final contest to be held was the sand building contest which Roman says that it should've happened earlier. Josh tells Edd and Tom to give up but they refuse. In order to show off that they refuse to give up, Tom coughs up a sand castle. 

Back with MattLobster, he was still fighting against the navy and coast guard but he was starting to get exhausted. He cools himself off with a helicopter before seeing a billboard that had a giant bottle of cola. MattLobster goes over to it in rushing speed only to slip on a banana peel and ends up falling hard on his back which causes a huge wave of sand to cover up everything that it touches. 

Meanwhile, we see two judges looking at all the sand castles and awarding two kids ribbons. When it came to judging the beach bullies and Edd and Tom, the judges didn't choose neither of them once they saw the mess that MattLobster did. Matt, who is now back to normal, climbs out of a giant hole that he made and get a first place ribbon. 

Edd and Tom congratulate Matt for winning the sand building context and oh, he apparently kept his shorts. Don't ask me why, I ain't no doctor. 

Josh claims that he and his lackeys aren't leaving the beach only to get crushed to death by the same whale that was seen before. Edd says that they crushed it during the contest only for Tom to say that the beach bullies are probably dead which makes Matt let out a sound of discomfort. 

After the credits roll, we get a memorial of Blonzie along with the timestamp of when he dead. After that, we cut to the barrel that was seen in the first part still leaking out the mysterious black substance which is contaminating the water. We then see a fishing boat along with the lobster that was responsible for Matt's transformation. The lobster gets transported to the city of London where it gets placed into a water tank at a restaurant along with a piece of the barrel meaning that someone might order lobster and might turn into a lobster monster. 

Mmmm... foreshadowing at it's finest and that's where the episode ends.

The Verdict

We finally made it to this part of the review. Does Surf n Turf Wars pt. 2 live up to the hype almost a full year of waiting? Is it worth your time? 

Well yeah, it does, but it does have its issues. I'm not saying that it's a bad episode nor anything, I just think it's mid. Yeah, I know that a hot take but hear me out. 

Allow me to it put it this way, Eddsworld is your favorite restaurant and they are famous for their famous and delicious French toast. You love their French toast because they know how to make it. One day, you go in there and see a new French toast option called Surf n Turf Wars Pt. 2. You order it and once you get it, it looks exactly the way how its pictured in the menu. You take a bite and tastes really good. However, there's something not right. You wanted syrup to go with your French toast but you never got it. You wanted the syrup for some extra flavor. Sure, the French toast tastes good but you want syrup. 

Are you still following me? No? Well, to keep things short, the episode does have good things and it has some bad things that are kinda holding it back

Let's start off with the goods first 

- The pacing was really good. There wasn't a single scene that was dragged out or went too fast which was an improvement over part 1. Part 1 had some certain scenes that were too long or were to fast. When I first watched Surf n Turf Wars Pt. 2, I managed to follow along without any issue. So, that's a big positive. Let's hope that the pacing is good in the future episodes 

- The montage was amazing. I really like Edd and Tom's montage more than Matt's but both of them were pretty good.

- It was nice to see a couple of returning background characters especially from older episodes like the grim reaper, one of the Atlanteans from 25ft Under The Seat, and the vampire from Matt Sucks. Also Kim and Katya were in the episode. Oh, how I've missed them so much. I'm glad that returned for this episode

- I really like the use of music throughout the episode. One of my biggest gripes with the Beyond episodes was the lack of music in scenes. It was nice hearing music in the background.

- I liked how MattLobster was just a big goober instead of just being a rampaging monster. If I was to ever transform into a lobster monster, I probably would be freaking out not gonna lie. 

Okay, that's all I got for positives. It's time for some negatives. Here we go. 

- If you were expecting to see some epic battle where MattLobster fights Monster Tom, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it didn't happen. The whole MattLobster part of the episode felt more like an afterthought than anything. 

The trio works best if they were all together. Not separately. Sure, you have something happen to one of them but at least have the other two acknowledge it. I wonder what Edd and Tom's reactions would be if they were to actually see Matt's monster form. Sorry but the monster Matt part of the episode was extremely underwhelming.

The episode should've started with Edd and Tom realizing that Matt isn't there and decide to look for him only to see him as a giant monster. The two work together to keep Matt from rampaging and scaring off everyone while having him use his newfound strength to win all the contests. Little did they know, the navy and coast guard has been watching them and they attempt to kill Matt, but Edd and Tom defend him as they battle the navy and coast guard. 

It's not perfect, but it's better than what we got.

- A lot of the jokes were visual which weren't all that bad and weren't dragged out. I wish there was more spoken gags, but that's just a tiny nitpick. Nothing too major.

- I was never a fan of the beach bullies and never will be. It should've been Eduardo and Mark to begin with.

So, how would I score this episode? Like I said in my review of Surf n Turf Wars Pt. 1, I usually review episodes that have more than part as one big thing. Surf n Turf Wars as a whole wasn't a bad two parter in the new era of Eddsworld. It could've been better yes, but they weren't terrible. 

Surf n Turf Wars Pt. 1 is a 7/10 and Surf n Turf Wars Pt. 2 is a 6.5/10. 

My final rating for both parts is a very muscular Tom and Edd out of 10. More specifically it's a 7.5/10 and it gets a B-.

So, what did you think of Surf n Turf Wars Pt. 2? Do you think it's good or do you think that it's bad? Let me know in the comments. Remember to be civil even if you agree or not. 

This has been your host Lbat1901 and remember to not jump into shark infested waters.

See you in the next episode review whenever a new episode decides to come out. Anyway, that's all I got.

See ya.