Foul-mouthed animated TV series are nothing new. Shows like South Park and Family Guy have a lot to say in their more adult-oriented comedies, but Big Mouth is something different. The animated series debuted on Netflix in 2017 as the perverted brainchild of names like Andrew Goldberg and Nick Kroll. Kroll, along with actors such as John Mulaney and Jessi Klein, voiced a host of characters made of kids hitting puberty. For seven years, Big Mouth has followed their changes, as Nick, Andrew, Jessi, and company grow up alongside their hormone monsters.
Season 8, the last for Big Mouth, is more of the same. It hasn’t lost its step in being one of the horniest shows ever made, but there is also a lot of heart to it. That’s especially poignant for a series that isn’t afraid to break the fourth wall several times and tell its audience that this is it. The characters we’ve followed for so long are growing up, and at a certain point, not only will their hormone monsters leave them, but so will we. It all leads to a poignant and hilariously filthy end. Big Mouth is going to be missed.
What Is ‘Big Mouth’ Season 8 About?

For seven seasons, the kids of Big Mouth have very slowly gone through middle school, leaving them in the throes of perpetual puberty for our entertainment. Every one of them is horny and unable to handle it or hide it, which leads to some rather jaw-dropping situations that only an animated serious can get away with. Entering its last season, they are no longer clueless preteens. They have now grown to be clueless teenagers who are now not only experiencing their sexual awakening but have to deal with high school on top of it.
What makes Season 8 a little different is that they are now either acting on that awakening or veering off from each other. Nick and Andrew have been the demented heart of Big Mouth, but in the final season, their fighting has driven them apart. Missy (Ayo Edebiri) starts out alone, as she is being homeschooled, and Jessi now has a new group of friends, having taken up with the stoner kids. Throughout the ten episodes, they go on adventures so humiliating that you can’t imagine going through any of it yourself, but these kids also learn and grow.
Season 8, like every other, is one sex joke after another, but the looming end is like a ticking clock. Something big is going to happen with them, we can feel it, and in the final episode, Big Mouth gets a fitting goodbye, with a sendoff that will, of course, make you laugh, but also make you feel things. The kids of Big Mouth are growing up and there’s no stopping it. When that happens, what happens to the hormone monsters who have been with them throughout their adolescence?
‘Big Mouth’s Characters Still Carry the Series

Big Mouth can be shocking in what it gets away with if you’ve never seen it before, but if you have, you know it’s going to be completely filthy. This isn’t a show you watch with your family, unless you like the embarrassment. Countless jokes about the human anatomy and what it’s capable of could get old rather quickly if you didn’t care about the characters who are saying and doing those perverted things. Season 8 keeps the focus on the characters we’ve grown accustomed to, but Big Mouth is not content with having them act the same. Jess has become a pothead as she tries to shove down her nagging monsters, including a Depression Kitty (Jean Smart), but she has a sweet relationship with her stoner boyfriend, which leads to the introduction of a new hormone monster that we won’t spoil here.
Jay (Jason Mantzoukas) and Lola (Kroll) have the most unhealthy relationship you can ever imagine, but Season 8 sees them expressing some rather vulnerable feelings. Matthew (Andrew Rannells) is gay, but we also get to see him being a clueless virgin who has no idea what to do. Missy has always been the most nervous and insecure character in Big Mouth, but as she enters high school, we watch her fight to be more than her fears — and succeed.

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Then there’s Andrew and Nick, who are at opposite ends of the puberty spectrum. Andrew is near the end of his sexual changes, to the point that his hair is starting to fall out, while Nick, always the short kid with the worst of the hormone monsters, wakes up at the beginning of one episode having hit puberty big time while he was sleeping. Now we get to watch him go through what everyone else has. It makes him a pretty horrible person at times, and there’s an effective subplot about a new hormone monster entering the picture, but at the end of the day he’s still Nick, just as curious and confused as the rest of the group. If these kids existed in real life, we might be worried, but in Big Mouth, they are the compelling exaggeration of our wants and fears.
‘Big Mouth’s Final Season Asks Big Questions and Delivers a Few Answers

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Big Mouth does more than put horny kids in awkward situations and watch them flail about as we laugh. There is so much more going on, to the point that the Netflix series can be considered a form of sex education. Big Mouth knows this, too. In one episode, in a wink to The Magic School Bus, their teacher (Natasha Lyonne) takes them inside the anatomy of a male and female body during intercourse. Yes, there are gross-out gags about ejaculation, but there are also several scenes with the kids (and some of us) learning about how everything works in there.
One episode actually answers real fan questions from Instagram, covering everything from the serious, like wanting to know what a gynecologist is, to the more ridiculous, such as defining a queef. Each question then leads to a segment with the characters, and one, which parodies an old Looney Tunes cartoon, is one of the funniest moments in the entire series. The moral of the episode and the entirety of Big Mouth’s last season is that it’s OK to be scared about sex. If you are, talk about it, and accept that no one is normal. We’re all weird, so embrace it. Just be you.
Big Mouth’s finale is not another regular episode, but one that speaks of a natural end to the show. Adulthood is approaching, everyone’s changing, and there’s no running away. The final scenes are touching and might even bring a tear to your eye that has nothing to do with laughter. Big Mouth is one of the filthiest, horniest shows you’ll ever see, but it’s also one that will teach you a lot, whether you’re a teenager going through it now, or someone who already has and needs a reminder that it wasn’t as scary as you remember, and it’s also not the peak of your life. In Big Mouth, the show ends, but the growing kids confidently move forward into life’s next adventures.

Big Mouth

The horniest show on TV goes for the heart at the end.

Release Date

2017 – 2025-00-00

Directors

Jennifer Flackett

Writers

Jennifer Flackett

Pros & Cons

The characters continue to carry the series as they evolve into teenagers.
The humor is just as disgusting and hilarious as always.
A few episodes become just as educational and funny.
The final scenes will make you look at your own emerging adulthood differently.