Comedy CentralIt feels kinda a missed opportunity to steamroll over Dan Brown's bestselling novel. The book, taking huge liberties with history interpretation and full of baffling leaps in logic, is virtually begging to be humiliated by the smartest animated show. Sadly, from the very beginning it's obvious how dedicated The Duh... is to hammer in exactly one point, namely how intellectual arrogance is bad by a tired trope of putting the smart guy in the dummy's shoes. After all, blatantly superficial moral lessons have never amused anybody. The joke material of the titular novel was casually expended on a few throwaway gags, and the plot was taken over by a nonsensical conspiracy stuff about a wooden spacecraft capable to travel to a high school planet with Leonardo da Vinci as a bullied jerk. It's easy to recall far better episodes dealing with Fry's intelligence like The Why of Fry and Parasites Lost, where Fry's conflicted personality combining everyday stupidness with the ability to make very thoughtful decisions was poignantly depicted. And here we got 22 minutes of mean degrading which comes at the expense of imaginative humour, coherent plot, and the lost opportunity to make a smart literary parody.
