grundle

I just found about this - after the first episode aired:



http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cul...aim-absolutely

Wildly Offensive New Show ‘Bordertown’ Takes Aim at Absolutely Everyone

January 4, 2016

FOX’s new animated comedy from executive producer Seth MacFarlane, Bordertown, spared no individual, group, or social cause in its debut episode last night, "The Engagement." The show, set on the US/Mexico border in the fictional town of Mexifornia, hops neatly from one stereotype to the next, apparently out to offend every conceivable person. The premiere centers around an interracial marriage proposal and a town referendum on a new immigration law.

Bordertown star, Bud Buckwald (Hank Azaria) is a comically ineffective, woefully out of shape, redneck, American Border Patrol agent who acts racist and wants to exile “the gays” once he gets rid of all immigrants:

His younger daughter, Gert (Missi Pyle), is a caricature of Honey Boo Boo, an overweight child pageant queen who shares a trough with her pot-bellied sidekick, Sparkles. His older daughter, Becky (Alex Borstein), is in love with J.C. (Nicholas Gonzalez), the American-born son of Bud’s Mexican neighbors who returns from college fully steeped in Social Justice Warrior grievance-mongering. When Becky hears J.C. is coming home from college, she exclaims, “I’d bake a cake if that didn’t reinforce gender roles and prop up Big Gluten.”

J.C. refuses to work “until all the problems of the world are solved,” quipping, “How can I get a job when monsters are trying to pass this immigration law?” His activism is repeatedly lampooned throughout the episode, from his mother’s board listing his sole accomplishment, “Lone Man at Sit In Sat On” to his proclamation that “I’ve never been so happy to be heteronormative” when Becky accepts his marriage proposal. J.C. is later pulled over and deported to Mexico (via the Deportation Cannon!) after correctly naming last year’s WNBA champion, because “no American would know that.”

In Mexico, J.C. is beaten and robbed by the Virgin Mary for “not believing in me,” while back in the states, Becky begs him to “put a baby in me so I can fight for the right to legally abort it,” and he pledges not to get married before the country is renamed "the United States of Indigenous Rape." Meanwhile, Bud encouraged Becky at age 14 to trick a guy into getting her pregnant, even giving her a condom-pricking push pin for her birthday, and turns his wife down when she wants to give him a "very special reward" for saving the day, saying, "I've already been in one hellhole tonight." There’s plenty more I could list, but I think you get the picture.

The only real question is how long Bordertown can keep up this shtick. The pilot was shock and awe; it will be interesting to watch the show’s writers try to remain relevant in the coming weeks.

boogieman03

Thought this was awful.

TheKing

I could not find one redeeming quality about this show.

Ugly animation. Terrible voice acting, at least in the sense of how the characters are voiced.

The show is offensive, but not funny in the slightest.

Jadzia

+1

DRG

I only watched this because Hank Azaria said on a talk show that Seth McFarlane was involved. Turns out he was just executive producer and the show was created by a Family Guy writer.

It felt like third rate McFarlane writing with animation that looked like a weird cross between Family Guy and Bob's Burgers.

PhantomStranger

The animation was horrible to watch, I have no idea how Fox allowed some of those character designs to make it on air.

I didn't make it past the first commercial break. I commend Fox for giving animation a serious look in prime time but they need to be a little more creative than attempting yet another Family Guy clone.

shizawn

Yup. Awful. Won't be watching again.

writer106

I didn't like it. Animation was awful and the voice work by Nicholas Gonzalez was awful.

postermen

Just checking to see if this show has been cancelled yet. There was nothing good about it at all.

writer106

FOX will probably let it run a few more episodes. On the wikipedia page, episodes 1-3 have scheduled airdates and the rest don't.

Some critics like the show. I saw some people on twitter trashing it.

whotony

Anyone watch Bordertown on Fox?

Brooklyn 99 was moved to tuesday and this was put there in place.

I didn't make it 10 minutes through the first ep.

The funny joke seems to be the name of the town which is on the California Mexico border.
Mexifornia

ugh.

windom

So I"m guessing that the Glenn Frey bit was made before he died. I guess there was really nothing in it that would make it necessary to remove though.