# Andy Richter Controls the Universe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2002, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201 "2002-03-20T13:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kirkland1244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kirkland1244](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kirkland1244)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/21 "2002-03-23T08:38:13Z")
I really liked it. Sadly, it conflicts with Buffy, so I won’t be seeing it much. But if it lasts, I’ll watch it whenever the Slayer is in reruns. Kirk ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/22 "2002-03-26T20:26:46Z")
Anyone know what the theme song is and who performs it? ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/23 "2002-03-27T03:42:06Z")
I didn’t get to see the pilot, but I’ll tell you this–I laughed my ass off at the second episode. Andy Richter’s just got charisma. He smiles goofily, I smile similarly. He says, “Hi are you?” instead of the obvious greeting, and I nod sympathetically. It’s quirky and off-the-wall, but you know what? That doesn’t make it _totally_ ludicrous. Example–crushing an old lady’s head into a diamond. Clearly, damn funny. And also, clearly ludicrous. But not _totally_ so. The underlying premise is that he wants to be something better, to impress this girl he likes. Identifiable, party of one? Your table is ready. Good stuff. It’s an… interesting lead-in to _24_, which still has me suspensfully riveted. So you can use that as your baseline as to my tastes, if you’d like. Quix ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/24 "2002-03-27T04:02:30Z")
Who remembers “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin” starring the late Leonard Rossiter? It had a similiar premise. It would be Americanized into the abyssmal “Reggie” starring the late, but usally brilliant Richard Mulligan. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/25 "2002-03-27T19:09:21Z")
Well I’ve watched both episodes of this and have to say it’s not funny, extermely annoying and more gimmiky than Baby Bob. The co-worker he has a crush on is disturbingly unattractive, so much so that I can’t even look at her, and what’s up with the jokes about dead people? Is every show going to feature a different corpse? (A dead fat guy doing “the Hustle” in his coffin – is that funny? NO! It’s just weak and lame.) I really like Andy Richter, so I’m pretty disappointed. I laughed once last night and I don’t even remember what it was I liked. (I think it was building a temple of shrimp “In my stomach!”) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/26 "2002-03-27T19:53:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > The co-worker he has a crush on is disturbingly unattractive, so much so that I can’t even look at her… Are you nuts?! Wendy is babe-alicious. The other co-worker, with the enourmous disturbingly large mouth, who yelled at the dead guy, I could do without. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201/27 "2002-03-27T20:12:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by voguevixen \* > **The co-worker he has a crush on is disturbingly unattractive, so much so that I can’t even look at her…** 😕 Help me out here **vv**. I understand what all of those words mean individually, but in that particular configuration they just don’t add up. It’s even structured in the manner of a normal English statement. It’s like some horrible non-Euclidean geometry, only with words. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-richter-controls-the-universe/99201.md?page=1)