This episode took an easy stab at a heavily critiqued celebrity: Tyler Perry. It's style of critique is similar to that of The boondocks season 3 episode 8 ("pause"). Instead of Winston Jerome from the boondocks we have Mr Chocolate; in enigmatic television and film writer who owns a large movie studio in Atlanta (much like the real Tyler Perry). It points out Tyler Perry's colorism he was so known for in his earlier works such as portraying light skinned people as good and dark skinned people as evil. It also pointed out his obsessions with using negative black sterotypes for drama and portraying black women as constant victims. (There is a hilarious scene where a dark skinned black woman literally eats a crack sandwich).
This was a perfect episode for a show that takes place in Atlanta, since Tyler perry owns a studio there. It's title (work ethic) comes from a Tyler Perry quote showing how he is able to write so many movies and television episodes in such a quick amount of time. Throughout the episode it shows the low quality of Tyler's work while still being a very Atlanta episode. We finally get to see Van with her daughter after her stint in season three of living in Paris. She struggles to protect her daughter from racial exploitation of Mr Chocolate (Donald glover in prosthetics giving cartoony comical performance) who wants to keep casting her in his shows in movies because he likes her sassy attitude on set. There is also a very meta element on the series. Overall it ties in perfectly with the final season which earlier dealt with colorism in the form of Earns Aunt.
This was a perfect episode for a show that takes place in Atlanta, since Tyler perry owns a studio there. It's title (work ethic) comes from a Tyler Perry quote showing how he is able to write so many movies and television episodes in such a quick amount of time. Throughout the episode it shows the low quality of Tyler's work while still being a very Atlanta episode. We finally get to see Van with her daughter after her stint in season three of living in Paris. She struggles to protect her daughter from racial exploitation of Mr Chocolate (Donald glover in prosthetics giving cartoony comical performance) who wants to keep casting her in his shows in movies because he likes her sassy attitude on set. There is also a very meta element on the series. Overall it ties in perfectly with the final season which earlier dealt with colorism in the form of Earns Aunt.