Dave Burd, the main character and creator of Dave, spends a lot of FXX’s comedy justifying the name and identity of his YouTube-rapping alter ego Lil Dicky.Sure, “Lil Dicky” is a reference to Dave’s allegedly diminutive penis, the eponymous star of Lil Dicky’s viral hit “My Dick Sucks,” but there’s more to it than that, Dave periodically insists.DAVE Season 1-2 Download.
In one early episode, Dave announces, “It’s actually a super-intellectual commentary on hyper-masculinity.”He’s correct, and the same is true of FXX’s Dave. Well, not the “super-intellectual” part, but I’d maybe go so far as to say “smarter than you might expect.” The problem is that both Lil Dicky and Dave lean so heavily into the puerile, with only hit-and-miss comic results, that I’m not going to blame anybody unable to get as far as the fifth episode, which serves as an intended recontextualizing of the themes of the entire show and actually succeeds on that level.
Honestly, I’m not going to blame anybody who checks out on Dave within the opening three minutes, as Burd and co-creator Jeff Schaffer (Curb Your Enthusiasm) engage in a direct assault against the casually interested. Dave is at a doctor and he gives a long monologue about his schlong and its tragic origin story culminating in the pronouncement, “My dick is made of balls.” On top of the promotional art featuring Burd emerging from the fly of a pair of boxer briefs, this initial scene is almost a confirmation of your lowest expectations for the character and the show.It also isn’t an unrepresentative scene. The vaguely semi-autobiographical sitcom picks up with Dave (Burd) in the earliest stages of his hip-hop career. He has that one viral single, but he’s never even gotten onstage as Lil Dicky, though he’s plotting out his career with the help of his bar mitzvah money, plus way-too-attractive-for-him girlfriend Ally (Taylor Misiak), a kindergarten teacher, and friends Elz (Travis Bennett), a sound engineer, and Mike (Andrew Santino), a day trader.