Well, most people are just fat and smelly idiots, like Homer Simpson. You are the main audience but there are not enough of you to make a difference, at least it used to be like that.
A revival of the critique would be a lot more successful. The problem is that he would probably have to be a youtuber reviewer and you know...
Underrated but dated.
It features a lot of parody of films that were popular at the time. Not everything that ended up being parodied fell by the wayside and some references are interesting as a time capsule. Some moved on to be well loved classics.
It's very interesting to see stuff like Terminator 2 or Jurassic park be parodied alongside some others that maybe weren't as fondly looked back on.
It was better than almost anything else except for the Simpsons at the time. It only got a couple seasons, could've gotten a couple more. We don't talk about the stuff that came out after the show ended.
When S1 is good, it's really fricking good. When S1 isn't, it's a baffling comedic misfire, with jokes that go on for too fricking long to payoffs no one would laugh at without a gun pointed at them. It's really confusing how ex-Simpsons staff could miss the mark as highly as they did in a lot of S1.
S2 is much better balanced, I can concede it doesn't have as high highs but goodness knows it goes nowhere near as low either.
Further focus on Jay' supporting cast was a good move. In theory, I like the idea of an animated sitcom led by a single man. In practice, Jay struggles to carry his own show.
There are multiple episodes in Season One of hot women just throwing themselves at him, in spite of him being a fricking loser. At least with Alice he had to work to win her over.
They made it explicitly clear that Alice was not dating him, and even after the season pushed them together, the forbidden webisodes made it canon that they didn't end up together OR get to be happy together.
Also he was never lonely because his family, especially Margo, loved him deeply.
should be more about movie parodies and laughing at the movie industry it's cliches, controversies instead of trying to be another Simpsons clone with cringe relationship drama
I watched it again recently, it was great in the first season. But the retool in the second season took it down to just really good. I still want my The Critic/Cinema Snob crossover episode, but I understand now that I'm older that rights issues are a thing.
That's a sad realization. How many punchlines could they even squeeze out of yet another Marvel movie underperforming? And Critic already shat on endless remakes back then. Even mentioning it these days feels like a "sky is blue" commentary.
It stunk?
I guess you could say everyone's a critic!! 🙂
It stinks
Dry humor combined with a hard to relate main character for a larger mainstream audience.
I found him very easy to relate to as a fat smelly pretentious butthole
Well, most people are just fat and smelly idiots, like Homer Simpson. You are the main audience but there are not enough of you to make a difference, at least it used to be like that.
A revival of the critique would be a lot more successful. The problem is that he would probably have to be a youtuber reviewer and you know...
Make his son a Youtube critic and video essayist.
Jay Sherman is fat haha please laugh we’re gonna do this joke a lot.
It's funny that it was ABC, then moved to Fox, and now it's owned by ABC again.
It’s owned by Sony though
Not enough Duke and Franklin I guess.
It did well in the raitings during FOX, but fox gonna fox.
ABC were actively trying to kill it when it was on then.
>Not enough Duke and Franklin
Patrician fricking tastes, sir.
I liked it, I think most of the movie jokes hold up except for the ones where they were making fun of whatever was relevant at the time
>the finale is filled with nothing but the latter category
Think Jay can dualcast white meteo with fusoya or golbez?
Underrated but dated.
It features a lot of parody of films that were popular at the time. Not everything that ended up being parodied fell by the wayside and some references are interesting as a time capsule. Some moved on to be well loved classics.
It's very interesting to see stuff like Terminator 2 or Jurassic park be parodied alongside some others that maybe weren't as fondly looked back on.
It was better than almost anything else except for the Simpsons at the time. It only got a couple seasons, could've gotten a couple more. We don't talk about the stuff that came out after the show ended.
What did you expect from the creator of the hit show Queer Duck?
For me, it's Bi-Polar Bear.
Queer Duck or Duckman?
First season the network wanted to change it because they felt watching a "rich guy" living in New York won't bring in the ..."lesser" people.
Season 2: the bought in Alice Tompkins, to make Jay more "relatable" but it just ended up tanking the show.
When S1 is good, it's really fricking good. When S1 isn't, it's a baffling comedic misfire, with jokes that go on for too fricking long to payoffs no one would laugh at without a gun pointed at them. It's really confusing how ex-Simpsons staff could miss the mark as highly as they did in a lot of S1.
S2 is much better balanced, I can concede it doesn't have as high highs but goodness knows it goes nowhere near as low either.
Further focus on Jay' supporting cast was a good move. In theory, I like the idea of an animated sitcom led by a single man. In practice, Jay struggles to carry his own show.
I liked the country girl and her daughter it added something nice to the show. And oh god that accent makes me cum.
it was. it's just that it was airing during prime simpsons. it was a treat having these great shows run at the same time.
>Lonely ugly critic reviewing movies
Based
>Give him a hot wife and a happy family in the second season
Fricking cringe
There are multiple episodes in Season One of hot women just throwing themselves at him, in spite of him being a fricking loser. At least with Alice he had to work to win her over.
They made it explicitly clear that Alice was not dating him, and even after the season pushed them together, the forbidden webisodes made it canon that they didn't end up together OR get to be happy together.
Also he was never lonely because his family, especially Margo, loved him deeply.
the webisodes are not canon and J lived happily ever after dumping loads into that southern bell
Alice a cute
Alice was great. Cute, fun, and supportive.
>Make some shitty webseries where she dumps him
Fricksake.
That pissed me off. A friend only knew the show from the webseries and tried showing it to me, but I couldn't get into it partially because of that.
I imagine Jay nitpicking the entire time.
Because of your prahd.
Alice was so cute
should be more about movie parodies and laughing at the movie industry it's cliches, controversies instead of trying to be another Simpsons clone with cringe relationship drama
Yeah but SOUL
I watched it again recently, it was great in the first season. But the retool in the second season took it down to just really good. I still want my The Critic/Cinema Snob crossover episode, but I understand now that I'm older that rights issues are a thing.
>Why wasn’t this show better?
It was good enough for the time it was made. But there aren't even movies decent enough to make fun of now.
That's a sad realization. How many punchlines could they even squeeze out of yet another Marvel movie underperforming? And Critic already shat on endless remakes back then. Even mentioning it these days feels like a "sky is blue" commentary.
It was ok, people just don't like the whole "a joke per second" kid of writting these days