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I'd give this a one if I didn't have faith in them fixing it so for now it sits at a 3.

The period part is more strange than funny to me, not because I'm a man so I don't get it but because Jessie has been shown as a super progressive down to earth modern feminist with a lesbian mom... No one bothered to explain to her how periods function or how pads and tampons work, despite all of this? She's aggressively aware of alot of social issues and constantly promoting feminism... but this is something that escapes her? Ok...

The section with Missy is downright insulting. I know they hired a hand full of black writers to get this part down, but why is it everything negative is showcased when addressing her 'being black' to the point that it boils over with her telling her dad to 'act black' and her family agreeing with her? He's his own character and I've always liked that he's more of a cornball who marches to the beat of his own drum. His rebuttal that he's himself is fine, and if we're to believe this is just Missy being a rebellious pre-teen that's also fine.

Why is his own family dogpiling onto him too? None of them bring anything remotely positive to the final confrontation so what's supposed to be a child overreacting because she's dealing with her emotions, looks like a circlejerk. His own sister is in the back nodding her head like "That's right" When she should know and respect her brother enough to know that isn't right.

The Nick Subplot was bad... Just bad. Don't much care for it.

Main thing keeping this down to a 3 for me is the way Missy 'studying her blackness' is boiled down to weird stereotypes. Tyler Perry, Braids, and sleeping with Black Men. Gotcha. Again, I'm going to assume that they'll turn it around and Missy will realize she's overreacting and overstepping, but for her cousins and aunt it felt weird. Also 90% of the people watching this show won't see a problem with being told to "Act Black" since ya know. Yeah.

The Hugest Period Ever is not the worst episode of Big Mouth, but it is definitely in the Top 4. I still believe the worst episode is Requiem for a Wet Dream because it tries to shock us out of nowhere and the ending makes it pointless when it turns out to be a screwy dream Andrew had where nothing matters. The Hugest Period Ever just wants to shove in our face how gross the writers and animators are willing to get when it comes to stories about Jessi's talking vagina. The first time, Jessi and her vagina just talk to each other. No big deal. The second time, Jessi learns to have an orgasm, which is not a story anyone should tell or show about pubescent children. The third time...we get this. It is abysmal.

Missy is learning about her half-black identity, yet there is a completely missed opportunity to poke social commentary on the airport security guards being racist to her black father at the beginning. Nick is afraid to shower because his penis is smaller than Andrew's and Seth's, and he gets covered in Milk's vomit and another boy's red pee. Then he dumps lasagna on himself to get rid of that smell and Andrew calls him soup. Now let's get onto the real stuff, the bloody stuff. The grossest Big Mouth moment, period (no pun intended). Jessi bleeds so much, it looks like she killed someone in her sleep. When she swims with a pad, it soaks up the whole pool and it even sucks in a helicopter. Missy's flight back home in the other plot even reminds us of this. This time, we see blood on Jessi's vagina, who says the period of shedding uterine lining and coughing up blood is her most favorite time of a month, and we even see tampons going inside the vagina-face's mouth. I do not know how Big Mouth's writers come up with this nonsense or think that anybody would like to see kids doing inappropriate private things, but it is not funny, it tries way too hard to be relatable, and I am just glad that we only have 2 more seasons of Big Mouth to go before I never have to watch it again. I think the second season with the Shame Wizard is as good as Big Mouth gets. The last 2 episodes of Season 4 are salvageable, they are some of Big Mouth's best episodes, and they saved this season's story for me, but with Big Mouth, you can never count on consistently bad or good writing quality from episode to episode in just one season, which may be why every season of Big Mouth has 2 less episodes than Bojack Horseman. But I am cautiously hopeful for Big Mouth's future, I hope Ayo Edebri gets to move onto better things after voicing Missy, and it's a safe bet that we will learn who the mysterious "ponytail killer" is in the 6th and final season.

This is one of the only episodes of the series that I would skip. It's just disgusting. The whole Jessi storyline honestly just makes me sick to my stomach with how it's animated and the talking vagina and all of that. Also, can't she just go to the camp nurse?? The Nick/Andrew storyline is okay, but it doesn't make sense. We know that the campers are forced to swim, so the physical dirt and other gross stuff that's on Nick should get washed away daily. Not a substitute for showering, but should mean that he doesn't smell. The Missy storyline is actually good, as we get to see her develop and grow and embrace Black culture. All in all though, this is the worst episode in the worst season (in my opinion) of the show.