NO SEASON TWO!

I wouldn't go so far as to call this the "worst show ever" but considering the current state of tv comedy, it’s a railroad spike in the coffin of primetime comedy. What's needed is a comedy that has SOME redeeming quality and/or real laughs – and outside of the lovely Rashida Jones – this show had nothing.

Why was this show greenlit? Because the Farrelly Brothers were attached – nothing else. For a bunch of clueless FOX execs, that’s enough, as they can market the show as "Brought to you by the guys who did ________". The concept wasn’t dreadful, it’s just the least original, pitched every single season by a dozen different writers. The creators are no-names and the writing staff was equally unimpressive in terms of name recognition.

Among the show’s problems:

1. Overacting – it’s painful to watch most of the actors, including a dreadfully unfunny foreign character, transparently shill for laughs that aren’t on the page. I don’t blame them for trying, how else can you make these awful scripts funny?

2. Format – Shoot it however you want, but at it’s core, the scripts were standard multi-cam material. The show’s comedic beats, consisting of stark punchlines were that of a conventional sitcom and would be better served by a laughtrack, as much as I abhor them. It would fill that uncomfortable spot you’ve left between the punchine and next line of dialogue – and at least someone would be laughing. Which leads me to:

3. Energy – sort of nebulous, but there wasn’t any. A stale sitcom shot on VERY boring sets. End of story.

The real problem, is that the same nitwit execs who are busy fake-laughing on the set during tapings and lying their asses off to cast/crew that the show doesn’t suck, are the same ones who’ll suggest “comedy isn’t working”. They’ll also greenlight more *beep* pilots, that’ll further dim the prospects of the format.

While network execs are almost solely responsible for the downfall of primetime comedy, they should realize that the audience isn’t tired of the format, nor of comedy. People want to laugh, they’re just tired of crap material and transparent gimmick-shows. TV is referred to as the “boob tube” but somehow they manage to aim lower. Knock it off and give us semi-decent material.

This show was insulting.