Drawn Together
Posted on October 28, 2004 @ 8:36 am
I caught the premiere of Comedy Central’s new animated “reality” series Drawn Together last night. The concept of the show is that eight animation stereotypes (including a meathead superhero, a Disney-esque princess, a zaftig black-and-white heartthrob from the 1930s, and an adorable Japanese battle monster) are picked to live in a house, have their lives taped, and find out what happens when cartoons stop being polite, et cetera. For instance, racial tensions flare in the first episode when Princess Clara mistakes sassy, mystery-solving musician Foxxxy Love for a servant upon meeting her for the first time.
The verdict? This show is messed up. We’re talking messed up to the point that puppets making prank phonecalls seems pretty normal in comparison. Drawn Together takes its comedic cues from the shotgun approach of Family Guy — crank the yuks per minute (ypm) as high as possible and hope that at least a few of the jokes connect with the audience along the way. The end result is a crude, intermittently funny show. While the first episode proves vaguely compelling in highlighting both animation and reality television cliches, I don’t know if the series is sustainable beyond a few episodes. Of course, I said the same thing about Family Guy, and I understand that there are people out there who actually enjoy that show.
Meanwhile, the South Park season premiere was absolutely brilliant. Vote or die!
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Dangit, I missed South Park. I’ll need to set up a Season Pass on TiVo. I haven’t seen drawn together, but I think it would be funnier if they used real cartoon characters like Cartoon Network does for Harvey Birdman, Space Ghost, etc.
Oooh, hadn’t heard of this but have got to check it out! We loved Joe Schmoe because of the way if poked fun at the reality show stereotypes.
Family Guy grew on me after a few episodes as Futurama did…coincidentally, both run back-to-back on Cartoon Network (although which follows the other changes about every other week). Along with Sealab 2021, those are my 3 favorite Adult Swim cartoons. Cartoons that truly suck: I still haven’t found a single person that digs Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and I’m even more baffled by the popularity of Japanimation.
Oh, come on… you HAD to love the perfectly Disneyesque song “This black chick’s tongue…”
J.