treehouse Reviews

Shorties Watchin' Shorties (2004)

Pathetic garbage.

[4 June 2004]

With the IMDb limitation of one thousand words it's hard to canonically list all the ways this show is a decent into contempt for the viewer and cynicism about what could possibly pass for "broadcast quality," but I'll try.

The "hosts," Nick DiPaulo and Patrice O'Neal were always at best third-rate talents even when their biggest challenge was to put together a 5-minute stand-up chunk. Stretch them to 30 minutes and you realize that they are the two guys who work in your office mailroom who think they're funny, the ones who you try to avoid at lunch hour.

Comedy Central adds the cynical part. Obviously the rational goes like this: "Look, we have a library of standup footage that we burned out in the early nineties, lets animate it and give the series a 'street-wise' and 'dope' name so it attracts the younger kids who weren't around when we were replaying Janeane Garofalo's 'Cake' bit every two hours for six months."

But I do have pity on the animator - he's a decent Flash guy, just not a funny person. So he could only find two angles: Either literally illustrate the stand-up routines and hope that's funny, or find a way to bring in poop or genitalia, which I'm sure the Comedy Central Employee Manual says is always funny.

Schindler's List was funnier than this show. Take it off the air now.

Kid Notorious (2003)

The most irredeemable junk broadcast to date.

[24 October 2003]

This show is beyond awful, it's like an eighth grade AV project that was somehow mistakenly left in a network tape machine. I'd watch deleted scenes from The Critic before I'd watch this show again.

Robert Evans' only perceptible skill as a voice actor is the seemingly impossible ability to sound stoned and stiff at the same time, reading his lines like an audio book he learned phonetically.

The constant blur of racial slurs, profanity, and repeated attempts to elevate naughtiness to cleverness results in a miserable mess that manages to insult our intelligence more than our sensibilities.

The only potential good that I could envision coming from this show is that it drives everyone associated with it out of the entertainment industry permanently. Now *that* would be funny.