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Old 10-25-04 | 10:40 PM
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Drawn Together 10/27 (Series Premiere)

This is the new cartoon that begins this Wednesday on Comedy Central immediately following the South Park mini-season premiere.

Here's a promo image from it:



Debut: Eigh Archetypal cartoon figurse share a house in this deliciously crass spoof of such reality shows as The Real World. The female roomates are bigoted singer Princess Clara; black musician-sleuth Foxxy Love; and Toot, a tubby Betty Boop figure. Their male counterparts include the wacky and annoying Wooldoor Sockbat; a Pokemon-style monster named Ling Ling; gay video adventurer Xandir; studly Captain Hero; and Spanky Ham, a boorish pig downloaded from the internet. First up: The roomates meet -- and clash instantly. Voices include Adam Carolla and Cree Summer.

Episode #101:
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Foxxy is offended when Clara assumes she is the house servant.


Cast:

Jess Harnell as the voice of Captain Hero
Cree Summer as the voice of Foxxy Love
Jack Plotnick as the voice of Xandir
Abbey McBride as the voice of Ling-Ling
Adam Carolla as the voice of Spanky Ham
James Arnold Taylor as the voice of Wooldoor Sockbat
Tara Strong as the voice of Toot Braunstein / Princess Clara

official site: http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/drawntogether/

Old 10-25-04 | 11:29 PM
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I got a preview copy of it... and it is not good. It goes for the lowest common denominator of humor, which is completely fine in my book... but it's just not funny. The only thing I really liked about it was since it's character from all sorts of cartoons, there are all sorts of animation styles in one package, which is cool, but wears thin after a while
Old 10-27-04 | 12:08 PM
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Bump for the premiere tonight, although if you've seen Comedy Central in the last two weeks there's no way you have forgotten about it.

Hopefully, it is more Family Guy than Father of the Pride, though I fear the latter may be true.
Old 10-27-04 | 12:18 PM
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I got a preview copy of it... and it is not good. It goes for the lowest common denominator of humor, which is completely fine in my book... but it's just not funny. The only thing I really liked about it was since it's character from all sorts of cartoons, there are all sorts of animation styles in one package, which is cool, but wears thin after a while
It got a big fat F from EW this week. But, I still check it out for a couple episodes.
Old 10-27-04 | 12:19 PM
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This is getting terrible reviews. IMHO, the show would be a lot better if it had actual cartoon characters, instead of approximations. I realize this isn't possible, but still...
Old 10-27-04 | 12:20 PM
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Yeah, it looks terrible, but I'll give it a fair chance like everything else.

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Old 10-28-04 | 08:02 AM
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...and then no one commented AFTER the show airs...

I'll give it a week or two -- it was Meh with potential....
Old 10-28-04 | 08:04 AM
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Good idea, horribly executed.
Old 10-28-04 | 08:06 AM
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thought the same thing... had to turn it off halfway through

Originally posted by Meatpants
Good idea, horribly executed.
Old 10-28-04 | 08:23 AM
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It was ok... but the pig is too over the top!

Pissing every 2 minutes, the joke is not funny after he does it for the 50th time.

Who is this supposed to be?
Old 10-28-04 | 08:40 AM
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Unfortunately, this piece of crap will stick around for a while because it follows the new season of South Park. Usually I give shows a chance, but this was so terribly done that I feel no need to watch it ever again. I feel like I got the best of what they had to offer...and it wasn't good.

Off-topic, Comedy Central has time for this dreck, but no Dr. Katz?
Old 10-28-04 | 09:31 AM
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felt like a amatuerish Ralph Bakshi homage.

The funniest part was the two dualing "smurfs"
Old 10-28-04 | 11:15 AM
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I enjoyed this show a lot, guess I was the only one
Old 10-28-04 | 11:55 AM
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...and then no one commented AFTER the show airs...
I did in the South Park thread, but I'll repeat it here: it sucked. I gave it a shot, but I won't watch it again.
Old 10-28-04 | 12:22 PM
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I watched the first 8 minutes or so. I was excited to see this, but as soon as I was watching it I lost interest. I even laughed a few times, but I just didn't feel like watching all of it. I wish they'd bring back TV Funhouse, but I know THAT won't happen.
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the pig ruined it for me. the previews for the first season look interesting but i probably won't watch
Old 10-28-04 | 01:04 PM
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This was terrible. Not even good enough to give it a second chance.
Old 10-28-04 | 05:41 PM
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Well I thought they tried way too hard with this episode. But it had its good spots. I loved Ling Ling, and when cracked up when he was trying to get the princess to say his name 3 times.

I loved the pig deaficating into a cantalope for some reason. And I thought the ending with the season preview was great.

They need to switch the focus from Foxy and the Princess, to Ling Ling, and the Pig. I'll give it another chance, it has potential.
Old 10-28-04 | 06:20 PM
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I thought it was alright. I'll probably continue watching it after South Park.
Old 10-28-04 | 06:48 PM
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I enjoyed this show a lot, guess I was the only one
I liked it a lot too. The show was OUTRAGIOUSLY offensive. Sure, it was a bit uneven, but it had some rally funny bits and the not-so-funny stuff was so deranged it kept me interested. Hopefully they can can focus the humor more as the show goes on and gels.

One downside was that the best stuff was in the ads that saturated Comedy Central the past few weeks.

"Help, she's attacking me like the English language!"
Old 10-28-04 | 07:05 PM
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not that bad, but not good either. the "this year on Drawn Together" was pretty funny... and if that is really going to happen, it could get better.
Old 10-28-04 | 10:10 PM
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Yea I couldn't figure out if those were actual previews for upcoming episodes or a fake "next time on" like tons of shows do these days.

I thought the show was a good idea, but wasn't executed all that well.... but has potential if it can find its groove, focus on what works and cut the fat.
Old 10-30-04 | 12:42 AM
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Eh. I was unimpressed. It's hard to do good parody and this show proves it. Most of it was completely unfunny. I liked the racist princess character and the lines they wrote for her, but that was about it.
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Some ok gags but otherwise crap. Family Guy fans'll like it.
Old 10-30-04 | 09:44 AM
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Family Guy fans'll like it.
This one didn't. At all.


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