Marvdog

Did you guys watch this show? It came on right after South Park on wednesday, its actually from the creators of South Park. This show was pretty funny, its about the president George Dubya! There was a funny scene when his wife wanted to get it on and George was like go put on that parka I bought you while he goes and moves his guests to another room w/out her noticing, she comes back down wearing the jacket and goes to flash george and flashes everyone. Prob not as funny reading it, check out the show next week. It set a new record for most watched premiere show on Comedy Central.

elektra

There was a thread about this floating around somewhere. I liked it. I will continue to watch. I loved the whole fetus thing.

TheBang

Here's the other thread:

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...threadid=97693


My opinion: It sucked. I give it one more week, then it gets deleted from my TiVo's Season Passes if it's not better.

dhmac

As I posted in the other thread ( http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...threadid=97693 ), I think its a funny spoof of bad sitcoms. A lot of people don't seem to "get it" though, and only apparently see it as simply being a bad sitcom without noticing that its really a satire.

wildcatlh

I knew it was a satire, and I still didn't laugh once.

It's a shame, cuz I know they could've done better.

grunter

Why would I want to?
Isn't the boy's presence in office enough of a joke?

Soup Nazi

Don't mind me ...

I'm just padding through ...

Marvdog

I think this will soon become one of my favorite TV shows, tonight's episode was great with George's frat buddies. I loved the part when George farted on that dude.

edytwinky

I really didn't think anything of it. It's just another random show. My parents seemed to like as did some older neighbors.

cineman

Like I said in the other thread, LAME.

twikoff

not sure if its any indication.. but I fell asleep about 5 minutes into it

Charlie Goose

The most surprising thing about the show is how fat Marcia Wallace is now.

necros

I didn't like the first episode too much, but last night's was good.. I'll prolly watch it every week, it's on right after South Park, which is the only tv show I watch anymore besides xfiles

And it's a heluva lot better than that TV funhouse crap

Jobronie

They acknowledge this with their ad line: Every Great Man Deserves a Great Sitcom.

They've taken old, hackneyed, beaten-to-death domestic sitcom premises, and recycled them to take place in the White House. Kinda like how Get a Life took every precosious-child sitcom (like Leave it to Beaver) situation and transposed it to a 30 year old man living in his parents' garage (ditching to ride the new rollercoaster, losing his paper route, buying plans from a comic book for a build-at-home submarine, etc.)....

DJLinus

I've watched both episodes and I still don't think it's all that entertaining. I think it's great as a satire of the sitcom genre, but it's just not that funny. Although I admit that I laugh when Bush gives his catchphrase and the audience says it along with him.

elektra

So far, I enjoy it enough to keep watching.

Marvdog

You mean: "LAURA ONE OF THESE DAYS IM GONNA PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE!"

ClarkKentKY

I agree with dhmac...

I think maybe Trey and Matt made this show intentionally really really bad, as just a test of how far they could stretch comedy central's patience. I'll admit southpark has lost some of its originality and freshness, but it still reminas funny and satires some of today's "issues" (i.e. chinpokemon and the class elections were hilarious.)

But this was just unfunny... Maybe it would have better luck as a cartoon.

badger1997

See, this is the thing about humor. It's open to each person's individual interpretation. I happen to love the show and think it is one of the funniest things on television right now. I think it is a great mockery of the traditional sitcom setup and I find most of the jokes hilarious. I just wish they would make fun of Bush a little more. I realize their main target was American sitcoms, but if anybody deserves to be made fun of, it's got to be Dubya. I say Trey and Matt should keep up the good work, they have me, and i assume more than a few others, rolling on the floor laughing my ass off every Wednesday.

namja

I too love the show. Too bad most of my friends don't find the humor in that.

Marvdog

Are you sure you're watching the same show??? Anyway I agree, diffrent people diffrent tastes....

badger1997

It makes me so glad to see that other people appreciate the humor of this show too. I was starting to fear I was the only one laughing out loud at this the last two weeks. Some damn funny stuff and for those of you pissing and moaning about it being "intentionally bad" and "unfunny," just turn the channel and stop watching. There are plenty of us who will stay with it every week.

mllefoo

I *tried* to like this show. I guess I'm one of the people who "doesn't get it", though I don't think there is anything to "get". The show is lame, even for a satire that is *supposed* to be lame.

I think Matt and Trey could do much, much better.

Marianne

Marvdog

Word!

Jlbkwrm

I don't "get" the show, but I don't hate it either. I'm a pretty big fan of Matt&Trey's stuff (Cannibal! The Musical being one of my favorite DVDs), but the humor here is entirely not my style.

On the other hand, I was pleasently surprised that it didn't disintegrate into the type of show I was expecting. Namely, an elongated version of most W parodies:
(insert joke about W being stupid)
(insert joke about Cheney being old)
(insert joke about W being stupid)
(insert joke about W being son of a president)
(insert joke about W being stupid)
(repeat 50 times)

At least this show is angling for a newer, more creative take on things--which is far more than I expected, but like that TV Funhouse show Comedy Central's been running, I Just Don't Get It.