The show was horrible, but the concept wasn't too bad, it's just the execution with all the cheesy talking to the camera. When does that ever work?

Titus was 1000x better than this. One of the best comedies of the last decade that was killed well before its time.

saved by the bell, dude!

I TiVo-ed this and just watched it.

Which is to say I watched it right up to the point where they had the gay kid dancing around in his mom's dress. At that point, while I considered continuing just to see if this train wreck of a show could get any worse, I decided I had better ways to spend my time and deleted the show and the season pass.

It's a shame -- I've liked Rappaport ever since I saw Cop Land. But with the one-two punch of his stint on Boston Public and now this, I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to check out his stuff any more.

As for talking to the camera, Sex and the City did this for the first few episodes after dropping it for the rest of the first season and not going back to it again. It just really hurts the show. If you need characters to tell you what they are thinking, write better dialogue with others to get those thoughts across, or use voiceovers, like Scrubs.

I've got no problem with characters talking to the camera. For example, that moment in Goodfellas when Ray Liotta's character gets up off the witness stand and starts talking directly to the audience is pure genius.

I just thought the writing in this show sucked. Whether the characters were talking to each other or the audience, what they were saying wasn't worth listening to.