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Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will (2011)
A Triumph of Creative Television
Immature, infantile, scatological, and repulsive. These are just a few words that could be used to aptly describe one of the best television shows to ever come out of Canada, the controversial Kenny Vs. Spenny.
Running for 86 episode, Kenny Vs. Spenny chronicled the antagonistic relationship between best friends Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice as they faced off, week after week in competition against each other, with consistently humiliating results for the loser. (usually Spenny) In what was really a classic story of the struggle between good and evil, or in this case meek and clever, Kenny Hotz showed his conniving ways by consistently outsmarting his opponent, doing whatever what was necessary to come out on top in a truly Darwinian fashion of survival of the fittest.
Even after the show was over though, Kenny Hotz remained a competitor, and in his new show Triumph of the Will, he continues to face a series of challenge - this time man vs. self - which put his wiliness and cunning to the ultimate test.
From the stomach turning attempt to becoming a cannibal, to the heartwarming quest to find his mother love, Triumph of the Will is a much more intelligent and dynamic effort than his previous show, one with a lot of potential that will unfortunately be cut short before it has a chance to shine. Cable television is an unfortunate wasteland of airbrushed faces and pacifism, and shows like Triumph of the Will are a rarity which will be seen less and less as time goes on. Even Kennibal, the episode where Kenny attempts to eat all of the elements of the human body, is heavily censored through most available channels.
Kenny Hotz proves once again that you can make a smart fart joke, that you can be both incredibly offensive yet heartwarming at the same time, and that you can make a television show that has brains as much as it has balls while being gut-wrenchingly funny all at the same time.