There's a certain rhythm to a good Apartment Show drop. The crew teases it. Feitelberg vouches for it. Tommy Smokes promises some unhinged scheme. And then the clips start flying. This week's episode followed the script to the letter, and based on the rollout, it might be one of the better ones in the run.
Feitelberg signed off on the new ep early in the rollout.
Very good new episode of the apartment out now!
The actual hook this week, per Tommy Smokes himself, is a rent-money bit he's calling his favorite idea yet. That's a pretty loaded claim from a guy whose entire shtick on the show is cooking up increasingly deranged ways to keep the lights on. If he's saying it's the best one, that's the kind of self-endorsement that usually pans out — or detonates spectacularly. Either way, you're watching.
Tommy Smokes pitched the new rent scheme as his favorite to date.
New @Apartment_Show out now. We come up with my favorite idea yet to make rent money
The show's bread and butter, though, has always been the friction. New people walk in, don't quite get the bit, and Tommy melts down on camera. That's the entire formula, and the clip making the rounds from this episode is exactly that — Tommy losing it on the new girl for not buying into the vision.
Tommy goes off on the new girl for missing the assignment.
That's the whole appeal of this thing. It's not polished, it's not trying to be a sitcom, it's just guys (and rotating guests) bouncing off each other in a way that occasionally tips over into actual conflict. The fact that the main Barstool account is pushing it across the timeline a day later tells you the numbers are there. The Apartment Show isn't a side project anymore — it's quietly become one of the more reliable hangs on the network.
The mothership pushed the episode out the next day.
New @Apartment_Show out now! https://t.co/oKJD7EHJ6L