“Well then I guess Leviticus was a Republican.”

Adam Reed and Matt Thompson’s animated comedy series Frisky Dingo—in many ways a dry-run for their superior follow-up, Archer—is perpetually and relentlessly amusing, even if its no-limits humor is too random to consistently strike my funny bone.

Taking a scattershot, kitchen-sink approach to both its storylines and its humor, the series’ two seasons chronicle the outrageous, intertwined adventures of Killface, a hairless, earless, taloned supervillain, and Xander Crews, an immature billionaire playboy who moonlights as an Iron Man–esque superhero known as Awesome X. Unabashedly sociopathic, Killface’s stated intention is to use a skyscraper-sized contraption known as the Annihilatrix to push the planet into the sun.

It’s this scenario that allows the showrunners to spoof and subvert the tropes of the superhero genre—for most of the first season Crews is sidetracked from saving the world as he tries to get Killface to feature in his company’s line of action figures—but that throughline accounts for roughly 10% of what’s going on in any given episode. Otherwise it’s curveball after curveball (human-lobster hybrids, radioactive mind-controlling ants, masked men in robot suits and diapers riding giant worms, an overblown election cycle in which neither celeb candidate is eligible to be president, etc.), many of which land outside the strike zone. Elsewhere the show’s humor is characterized by acerbic satire, puns, smut, scatology, awkward pauses, violent visual gags, catchphrases, mockumentary-style interviews, and obscure film references.

Thankfully, the decently-realized supporting cast brings a variety of personalities, each with their own unique voice, manner of speech, and brand of humor, which give the show a jittery, self-referential verve that provides a constant hum of dense-but-nonsensical entertainment even when its jokes whiz past their target (or don’t even seem to have one in the first place). In the end, this singular and surreal cartoon mutates into something so ouroboric that it totally consumes itself.