Very funny! The same type of edgy parody humor that keeps me drawn to shows like Harvey Birdman and Venture Brothers.
Although the Tootsie self-mutilation thing was kind of over the edge. Though the “I’ll decapitate myself if you don’t pay attention to me” and the passing out and smashing head on corner of desk multiple times were a hoot.
My favorite character? “Blue Ball”. His interview was priceless. “You know, normally Princess takes advice from us, but this time she listened to Foxy Love. Oh well, its okay, because if she asked me for advice, I would have told her to KILL THE PRESIDENT!” screen tints red and music plays menacingly
The funniest part overall, though, was at the very end, showing a “Next time on Drawn together”. Just a bunch of spoofs on movies, and generally random stuff that comes out of nowhere entirely out of context. I caught spoofs of “Alien 3” and “The Crying Game”, but I’m sure there was more. There was also a monster made out of asian kids stuck together…dunno what the hell that was about
It’s slightly better than Kid Notorious but that isn’t saying much. It’ll last till the end of the South Park run then make way for the next space-filler to occupy the 10:30 Wednesday spot.
I have hopes for it, but yeah, the first episode was predictable and played out (and slightly better than Kid Notorious). I like most of the cartoon archetypes - the bottom -of-the-barrel, offensive for offensiveness sake humor of the pig is dead-on - but Foxxy Love is too aware of her sexuality to be a 70’s Hanna Barbera character. And that Toot is from the 20’s is unforgivable. They didn’t even have real cartoons in the twenties, they just dragged cells with stationary drawings on them across the camera, and then interspliced title cards. If they were savy enough to give her a Jewish last name (there was *one[.
I have hopes for it, but yeah, the first episode was predictable and played out (and slightly better than Kid Notorious). I like most of the cartoon archetypes - the bottom -of-the-barrel, offensive for offensiveness sake humor of the pig is dead-on - but Foxxy Love is too aware of her sexuality to be a 70’s Hanna Barbera character. And that Toot is from the 20’s is unforgivable. If they were savy enough to give her a Jewish last name (there was one short of Betty Boop where we see her yarmulke wearing father), why would they mess up and make her from the 20s? Also, the trend of making Superman-type superheros into misogynistic dolts is played out.
Any, Clara does look like she’s straight out of a direct-to-video wannabe Disney movie.
I liked parts of it, but a lot of the humor WAS too predictable and icky. The way they kept showing nipples was a bit much for me. Also, I know Toot is supposed to be like Betty Boop, but Betty wasn’t fat!!! Where do they get that? I did think the girl on girl scene with Princess Claire and Foxxy was hilarious with it’s Disney-like song and animation. Personally, I’m not that into dick and fart jokes though, so I probably won’t be watching Drawn Together regularly.
I was really looking forward to the show, but if the best and most compelling thing they have to offer is lesbian titillation, I probably won’t be coming back too much. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that - just that there’s so much better to be had elsewhere!)
Basically they are just copying successful bits from other shows. The jokes aspire to imitate Family Guy, the pig is Futurama’s Bender in a pig suit, etc. Sure there was a laugh or two but overall, the show is really terrible.
In fairness, it seems like whenever I really like a show, when looking back at the first couple of episodes and the pilot, they’re always predictable and unfunny. I always thought they made pilots generically funny just so they’d get on the air, then they have a short time to win over an audience with the rest of the season. Geek ands Freaks were a good example.
I was waffling between ‘pretty good’ and ‘great’ - then they featured the Blue Ball, which got me laughing, and followed up with the musical number, which nearly killed me.
Xandir’s transportation taking out the trailer park was another laugh-out-loud moment. As was Toot leaking cheese and spurts of ink from the wounds left by Ling-Ling.
Actually, one of the funniest things was almost subtle, for this show. The chaos at the beginning - Captain Hero is heard to say ‘Save yourselves!’ as he flies out through the wall at top speed.
It was unpleasant and offensive. Cutting for attention doesn’t make me laugh, noro does urinating on every available surface. I’m all for transgressive comedy, but it has to be funny, and Drawn Together just wasn’t.
I was shaving this morning, when it occurred to me that Toots is intended to be a goth chick. Both her color scheme and her self-mutilating behavior tend to support this. As far as her weight:
Several weeks ago, I read a column of Savage Love, in which Dan Savage alluded to a stereotype of goth girls as unattractive and overweight.
It is not my purpose to defend this stereotype. But, given last night’s episode I would suggest that the stereotype does not begin and end with Dan Savage’s column.
I kind of think that on future Wednesdays, it’s going to have to be a particularly lame episode of Inuyasha that inspires me to watch this show again.
I can buy that theory. In the Pilot of Stoker and Hoop, they are trying to rescue a girl that ran away from home. Stoker, using all the gentle wit of a sledgehammer, comments, “I know, you’re too fat to pass as a cheerleader, so you did the goth thing.”
Okay, she’s a 30’s cartoon character, yet the theory (i.e. the obvious reference), that her weight is a commentary on 30’s standard of weight and beauty is completely ignored. That’s the freaking joke!! That in the 30’s her weight made her a sex symbol, but now she’s fat! That’s the obvious, hit-you-over-the-head joke. She’s black & white because she’s from the 30’s, not because she’s goth! Did she act goth in any way? Look, this is Betty Boop’s first appearance, in a 1930 short called Dizzy Dishes. Look at her! Do you see how fat she is? Do you get the freaking joke, now? Can I know what I’m talking about for once?
I chuckled quite a few times, but I probably won’t make a habit of scheduling my night around this show, but I will probably watch it if flipping channels when there is nothing else on.
Toots kind of reminds me of Kenny in South Park, except she is a self-inflicter. I enjoyed Ling-Ling’s method of dispatching her, because she is the most annoying of the characters. And I do have some strange fondness of Disney being taken down a notch by having a Belle lookalike (Clare?) doing things that Disney couldn’t touch with a 10’ pole.
Now excuse me while I continue to struggle to chose between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich.
Windsor McCay made the first animated cartoon in 1911, featuring characters from the wonderful series Little Nemo. It was comprised of over 4000 separate drawings and it moved incredibly smoothly. By 1918, animated shorts accompanied every movie showing, and even provided the only report of the actual events of the sinking of the Lusitainia in a remarkable 13 minute animation.
He probably wouldn’t have cared much for Drawn Together. Me neither.
The same type of edgy parody humor that keeps me drawn to shows like Harvey Birdman and Venture Brothers.