Each episode has somewhat of a setting, a somewhat of plot like riding a bus, saving a friend or just a bunch of daily life stuff like conquering the entire world, but the characters mix into this familiar setting and then destroys it with their own stupidity.
What surprised me though, are how well animation & sound effects worked. The animation is actually lowkey terrible, there's very little movement; the characters just slide into the scene or suddenly cover the entire frame and the added sound effects just makes it look like normal thing when it feels so random & abnormal. One time, I really lost it when they randomly induced a helicopter sound effect when the Mohawk guy's hair suddenly started spinning, it's just so absurd & random that it cracks into funny shit.
This Anime is a parody of 'Yanki' (Juvenile Delinquents) themed manga, that were the popular stuff in 1970s & 80s. Now I haven't read or watched old Yanki Anime but I still found it to be funny. If you just want to have a quick idea of how delinquent typed characters in those times made, I'd recommend Riding Bean which is just 50 minutes and the dub is available on YouTube. Cromartie High School is available on Crunchyroll (or so Google says). The opening & endings are ridiculous as expected, but I like the "Trust Me" ending song, the guitar at the beginning is so fun.
Every episode lasts from 10 to 15 minutes which makes it easy to binge...except it didn't, for me atleast. I watched 8 episodes straight and the jokes became so painfully dull. Not saying they became 'unfunny', those ridiculous sound effects, out of the place faces & low level animation still works but the absurdity just grows on you and it starts to feel predictable, which lessens the comedic effect. Learning from that, I watched 2 episodes a day and it worked. I had this same problem with many gag Anime so it's probably just me but I do recommend watching it just an episode or two per day, as I recommend with all other gag Anime & Manga.
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