Posted on 08/01/2013 8:35:02 PM PDT by Olog-hai
It doesn’t debut until next month, but the Fox sitcom “Dads” is already taking heat in early reviews for being crass, sexist and exploiting racial stereotypes.
Facing reporters Thursday, its stars and producers defended the show as focusing on human frailties for the sake of laughs and enlightenment. They vowed to refine it, as needed, as the season unfolds, and asked its audience not to rush to judgment. …
“Dads” centers on two friends, played by Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi, whose politically incorrect fathers re-enter their lives and disrupt them. The raucous, loose-lipped dads are played by Martin Mull and Peter Riegert. …
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“Ahhh...once again your timing is impeccable. And by by impeccable of course I mean COMPLETELY PECCABLE!!”
Funniest show I’ve seen in a long time
Oh, I see ... the platypus is a metaphor for anything that’s keeping you down.
Probably lots more fun than the pro-queer stuff that’s been dominating lately...
In 1972 our local DJ was playing Martin Mull’s “The Theme From Belligerence” by “The Dueling Tubas”.
But nothing was like his “Fernwood 2-Nite” with Barth Gimble & Jerry Hubbard, backed by Happy Kine & the Mirth Makers, with local guest crooner Tony Rolletti.
I remember those days of ‘Fernwood’, ‘Mary Hartman Mary Hartman’, and then ‘Soap’. The first Mull song I remember actually getting airplay was, ‘Dancing In The Nude’. It took awhile but I remember thinking it was about time. I had been playing Mull’s first album for my friends since it came out in 1972. (I had read a positive review in Penn State’s Daily Collegian which compared the music to high quality department store music. I figured, “Well, I have to go get that!”)
It doesn’t debut until next month, but the Fox sitcom "Dads" is already taking heat in early reviews for being crass, sexist and exploiting racial stereotypes... "Dads" centers on two friends, played by Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi, whose politically incorrect fathers re-enter their lives and disrupt them. The raucous, loose-lipped dads are played by Martin Mull and Peter Riegert.Mull is drolly amusing, I loved his occasional appearances as the shady pharmacist on "Two and a Half Men". This isn't produced by the hit factory at the WB, surprisingly.
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