Posted on 05/26/2009 2:44:21 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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[Mike Judge's] new animated comedy, “The Goode Family,” created with John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky (beginning on Wednesday on ABC), shoots from a different tactical angle, similarly striving to alienate no one. As if he had been required by the Federal Communications Commission to devote equal time to jeering at liberal pieties (which, by the way, he did plenty of on “King of the Hill”), he has produced the Goodes, a family of zealot, vegan, recycling nut cases who don’t fight over paper versus plastic because they believe in neither.
“I know a lot of people are comfortable shopping with reusable bags,” Helen Goode (the voice of Nancy Carell) explains as she piles her groceries into her arms in the checkout line of a pseudo Whole Foods. “But I’m not. They’re made in sweatshops.” The Goodes have a dog named Che who leers at rodents because he isn’t allowed to eat meat, and an adopted teenage son named Ubuntu (David Herman) who they thought was black but who turned out, once they got him from South Africa, to be the blond child of Afrikaners.
To compensate for Ubuntu’s racist lineage, the Goodes dress him each day as if he were being sent off to a parade in honor of Nelson Mandela. His brand-new driver’s license identifies him as African-American.
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But the show feels aggressively off-kilter with the current mood, as if it had been incubated in the early to mid-’90s, when it was possible to find global-warming skeptics among even the reasonable and informed. Who really thinks of wind power — an allusion to which is a running visual gag in the show — as mindless, left-wing nonsense anymore?
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Wind power as a large-scale replacement for fossil fuels and nuclear power *is* "mindless, left-wing nonsense". Ms. Bellafante's newspaper had a long profile of global warming skeptic Freeman Dyson a few months ago -- most people would consider him "reasonable and informed".
our dogs will absolutely not eat vegetables... even if they are hidden in meat and cheese... every now and then we would buy a McDonald’s cheeseburger for our dogs, and they would eat everything but the pickle and onions... these were always left at the bottom of the doggy dish...
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This show sounds funny. I will have to record it.
Of course the libs will hate it. They hate being satirized.
Who really thinks of wind power — an allusion to which is a running visual gag in the show — as mindless, left-wing nonsense anymore?
well, people who know better??
The author doesn’t seem to realize that, for the most part, “King of the Hill” was a very conservative show, and this new one is likely to be quite conservative as well. It should be pretty clear by now that Mike Judge has no use for liberals.
> our dogs will absolutely not eat vegetables... even if they are hidden in meat and cheese... every now and then we would buy a McDonald’s cheeseburger for our dogs, and they would eat everything but the pickle and onions... these were always left at the bottom of the doggy dish...
Good dogs! I am of the view that trying to make dogs eat a vegetarian diet is tantamount to animal abuse.
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I’d never make it as a comic. I just don’t know what’s funny anymore.
I sure hope that the show is as hilarious as this review is.
Mike is a pedal steel guitar player. That’s country!
Speaking of gags, this sounds like a gag from the show!
“I am of the view that trying to make dogs eat a vegetarian diet is tantamount to animal abuse.”
I had a Briard. They love vegetables! When he heard me start cuttin’ veggies in the kitchen he would rush in lookin’ for treats. I had to fence my garden to keep him out! He liked nothing better than to trample his way in and grab tomatoes! They’re all like that. It’s in their breeding. Table scraps.
When my grandfather's beloved German Shepherd died, he adopted a Dalmation. For two years my grandfather couldn't figure out why he wasn't getting any bell peppers from his garden until he spotted the Dalmation grazing away at his pepper plants one day.
Me!
Me!
Me!
Do they not “get” that it is meant to make fun of people like themselves?
Sounds like a cat I that I grew up with. He would eat all of his kitty stew except for the peas.
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