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(I give it two episodes...maybe 3).


From AP:



"ABC executives know they won’t be getting a lot of love from critics for their new sitcom “Work It,” which debuts Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 4.

It’s an absolutely dreadful show in which a couple of guys — Lee (Ben Koldyke) and Angel (Amaury Nolasco) — dress up as women to get jobs. It’s a complete insult to the intelligence of anyone who watches it.

“I make absolutely no excuses for that show,” said ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee. “It makes me cackle with laughter, and I think it’s going to get noticed.”

It’s already been noticed — at the top of the list of Worst Shows of the Season when the networks announced their 2011-12 schedules back in May.

“We didn’t think this room [full of TV critics] would like it, and there’s some pleasure in that,” Lee said.

He was joking. Sort of.

Sadly enough, that joke was funnier than anything in the pilot of “Work It.”

Sure, there’s TV history behind this. From Milton Berle to Flip Wilson to Tom Hanks in “Bosom Buddies,” men have put on women’s clothing to get laughs.

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The difference here is there are no laughs.

To be clear, these guys are, by no means, female impersonators. Lee and Angel couldn’t possibly pass as women in any universe other than this strange sitcom parallel dimension.

The characters in the show are total morons to fall for it. ABC thinks viewers are total morons who will watch it.

That Lee was thumbing his nose at TV critics is no big deal. Hey, there are some TV critics I’d like to thumb my nose at, too.

The problem is he’s thumbing his nose at viewers by serving up garbage on a plate. “Work It” tries to pull humor out of economic distress while at the same time it takes a decidedly anti-woman bent.

“It’s not a recession, it’s a man-cession,” says Brian (John Caparulo), a friend of Lee and Angel’s. “Look, women are taking over the work force. Soon, they’ll start getting rid of men. They’ll just keep a few of us around as sex slaves.”

That’s the level of humor in this show. Or try this, when Lee gives his wife the good news. “Honey, I got a job!” he says. “Working as a salesman at a drug company. You know, talking in my regular voice, my genitals just hanging free.”

This makes the president of ABC cackle with laughter?"

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Brian. Is. Dumb. Hence. The. Joke. Not. Because. It. Was. Anti. Women. Gawd.

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