We meet up with kenny powers in mexico under a new alias and profession as a. Created by will ferrell and adam mckay, this halfhour comedy follows a former professional baseball player who returns to his hometown in the south to take a job as a substitute gym teacher. Kenny gets serious about his return to baseball, even enlisting stevie as his assistant. Kenny brings his boorish behavior to myrtle beach, sc and somehow resurrects his baseball career as the closer for the minorleague myrtle beach mermen. Kenny takes a job as a substitute physical education teacher at his old home town. The series star is danny mcbride, who plays kenny powers, a down onhisluck baseball pitcher who returns to his hometown to right past. In the season 4 premiere, kenny powers is now a family manwith his wife, april, two little kids and a home in the suburbsbut a night out with a former teammate and current tv star has him. We meet up with kenny powers in mexico under a new alias and profession as a cock. Danny mcbride stars as a john rockerlike former baseball star named kenny powers. A detour to shelby to attend the oneyear birthday of his child reunites kenny with april. Several years have taken place since we last saw kenny powers make the comeback that hes been waiting for, only to throw it all away for the woman he loves.
Kenny forces his selfproclaimed star power on local bmw dealer ashley shaeffer, getting him to agree to have kenny powers make a personal appearance in his showroom. The show focuses on former major league pitcher kenny powers and his attempts to return to major league baseball. Stevies best moments after being deprived of stevie last week, this could have been one of his best episodes in the. Mar 22, 2009 these are some of the best clips featuring kenny powers from hbos eastbound and down so far. Now working a boring, mundane job at a rental car facility and having given up completely on the party scene, kenny has become a shell of his former self. Foulmouthed, washedup majorleague pitcher kenny powers returns to his north carolina hometown, where he moves in with his straitlaced older brother and his family and starts teaching phys ed at. It stars mcbride as kenny powers, a former professional baseball pitcher who. When he loses his speed, former major league baseball pitcher, kenny powers danny mcbride is forced to move in with his brother in his old home town. Powers has fallen from the top of his game and is bumbling around in the minors, barely keeping his spot on the team while doing copious amounts of drugs, making a fool of himself everywhere he goes, bossing his unpaid assistant around, stevie who idolizes powers, taking care of his baby. To avoid selling his beloved jet ski, kenny looks to score some extra cash by pitching himself as spokesman for a local luxurycar dealership. He plays kenny powers, a former major league baseball pitcher who was an uncouth loudmouth. Kenny powers heads to mexico to lick his wounds and start a new, more anonymous life.
Kenny powers was poised to rule the big leagues, but two things got in the way. All four season of the wild comedy are featured, as well as deleted scenes and outtakes. After a spectacular career flameout, kenny goes home to shelby county, nc, to nurse his wounds and work as a gym teacher at his old middle school. But its clear that something in him has been shaken irrevocably as the nature of kenny powers s doomed ego trip shifts from the.
Danny mcbride does an amazing job playing the idiotic, chauvinistic, egofilled exmlb star kenny powers. Befriended by a neighboring mexican family and a sultry bar singer named vida, kenny emerges from the darkest hole ive ever been in by planning a comeback. Relive all the hilarious upsanddowns of burntout former baseball pitcher kenny powers danny mcbride as he charts his comeback to the majors with this full collection of eastbound and down. Kenny powers strives to be better father while eddy powers tries to win back kenny s mom tammy. Kenny powers, who finds himself out of baseball and reduced to teaching phys ed. Its not mustsee tv, but well continue to watch all the seasons.
Kenny powers thinks his son toby is cursed, and delivers unwanted eulogy at shanes funeral. But after two or three episodes i was hooked, and now have watched the complete four seasons twice. Former baseball star kenny powers finds himself teaching phys ed at his old. Producers will ferrell and adam mckay received an order for six episodes for the first season. Kenny forced to return to his hometown to take the place of regular school physical education teacher. It stars mcbride as kenny powers, a former professional baseball pitcher who, after a career downturn in the major leagues, is forced to return to his hometown middleschool in shelby, north carolina, as a substitute physical education teacher. Down follows former pro baseball pitcher kenny powers mcbride. Stevie lays down the ground rules for his return to kenny. Kenny powers continues to struggle with life after baseball. The six episode show plays like a 2 12 hour movie, although the individual episodes are very much structured like television. This outrageous character has absolutely no filter, and no comprehension of what socially acceptable behavior is. Kenny powers steps back into the public spotlight with an appearance on sports sesh.
The hbo comedy eastbound and down ushered in of a new type of dark hilarity and became a television cult classic in the process. The protagonist, kenny powers, is an obnoxious, crass southerner. We meet up with kenny powers in mexico under a new alias and profession as a cock fighter. Click here and start watching the full episode in seconds. Affiliates with free and paid streaming include amazon, itunes. Now ive collected the full set and cant wait until the next. Kenny powers becomes a celebrity spokesman for ashley schaeffer bmw. After substance abuse and insanely selfdestructive behavior throw a knuckle ball at his pro baseball career, former pitcher kenny powers retreats to his north carolina hometown, where he takes a job teaching physical education at the school he once attended. In the chapter 10 episode of eastbound and down, kenny powers danny mcbride fears his time in mexico is coming to an end. The films are frequently hilarious, but get bogged down in some heavily dramatic moments. Kenny powers settles into a life of bodyboarding, jetskiing and hardpartying with his catcher, shane. Kenny gets an offer from a professional team and is forced to say goodbye to his family and teaching job. From the majors to the minors, mexico to carolina, househusband to espnstyle superstardom, this show and kenny fin powers has kept me guessing at every turn.
His efforts to raise money through personal appearances falls flat and his job as a teachers assistant sees him struggling with small town community needs. And thats a big part of what makes eastbound and down so ridiculously funny. Going full heisendouche a neutered and spayed kenny listening to npr in the shelby suburbs and working at a rental car joint. It looks like kenny powers has just replaced dontel as a full time host of sports sesh. Now hitting a career decline, he has returned to his hometown and temporarily pitched up at his brothers house. This series deserves much wider appreciation as it is a standout piece of work that amazingly gets better and better. Kenny powers utterings are so politically incorrect it is more of a lens on the kind of folk who genuinely come out with such cringemaking observations. Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burnedout major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on youtube. Kenny powers is now a family manwith his wife, april, two little. Eastbound and down is so vulgar, offensive and hilarious that i was nearly falling off of my chair laughing. One of the great television characters of all time has written the.
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