Free Bert Review 2026 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
When Bert does his signature move, which is taking off his shirt, the crowd at Lowe’s birthday party cheers. Then Lowe tells him to take put it back on, just so he can take it off again. After the show, Lowe tells him that the shirt bit is universal and that Bert should just concentrate on that.
Of course, Bert knows that his stand-up act is more than just him standing there with his bare beer belly sticking out, as he tells his wife LeAnn (Arden Myrin). Either way, the private gig is getting in the way of him being at orientation at the new private school his daughter Georgia (Ava Ryan) and her younger sister Ila (Lilou Lang) are attending. So the next morning, he volunteers to drop him off — something that LeAnn is discouraging, because she wants the family to get off on the right foot with the parents at this school.
Of course, the teenaged Georgia is completely embarrassed by Bert, but the savvy-for-her-age Ila knows what the real problem is: Her sister isn’t getting any attention. Bert decides to fix that by going on T-Pain’s livestream and talk up Georgia. He tries to do just that when former NFL star Pacman Jones makes a surprise visit. Soon we see clips of Bert telling everyone that his middle-school-aged daughter doesn’t do a certain sexual act.
That gets Georgia some attention from the most popular girl in school, but of course it’s not the good kind. The popular girl reposts a clip, and Bert decides to follow the school’s code of conduct and report it as a cyberbullying incident. What he doesn’t realize though, is that the girl’s parents, Landon and Chanel Vanderhall (Chris Witaske, Mandell Maughan) are among the school’s biggest benefactors. That leads Bert to make fun of Landon in his standup that night, causing him and LeAnn even more problems.
Free Bert, created by Kreischer, Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, isn’t quite as funny as it should be, but at least it has some sort of story that carries through the first season. Kreischer trades in on his shirtless, up-for-a-good-time standup and podcast persona and examines what happens when the show’s version of Bert actually decides to keep his shirt on — and wears one with a collar, from a suggestion by the school’s therapist (David Ury) — in order to fit in with the snotty parents from his daughters’ new school.
We suspect that he’s going to try his best but be chafing (maybe even literally) under such restrictive conditions, and that’s where some of the show’s humor is going to come from. We give Kreischer and his co-creators credit for putting him in a situation that has a lot to do with his comedy persona but isn’t just about that persona.
What we also appreciated is how the series portrays the dynamic in Bert’s fictional family. LeAnn isn’t above getting in the dirt, just like Bert, but wants to really fit in and lay low as much as possible; however, she’s not berating her husband for fighting back his way. The girls are free to curse in their house and even out in public, because it’s hard to keep your kids from having potty mouths when that’s at the center of your career. Ila, who we estimate is about 11, seems to be wise beyond her years, which can get a touch irritating on a sitcom, but at least Georgia is an appropriately awkward and perpetually embarrassed middle-school teenager.
