I found it on a website and downloaded it. The site’s probably illegal, so you’ll have to email me if you want it.
Anyhoo, I laughed my head off. Absolutely hysterical. Patrick Warburton is perfect in this role, and the writers were up to the challenge. I know some people are upset that they changed some names, but Bat Manuel cracked me up as well.
This show is going to rock!
Wheee!
They keep teasing me with that show - first, it’s supposed to be a mid-season replacement, and then a summer show…SHOW IT ALREADY!
I’m dyin’ here.
On what channel? When?
Thanks
Q
Fox, isn’t it?
A comic shop in town has a VHS copy of it, thye want 20 bucks for it, if the show doesn’t debut by the new year, it isn’t ever going to air. Maybe I’ll buy it then.
I’m waiting for November 8, I do believe the pilot is still slated for then, right? Please don’t tell me they pushed it back again.
According to the Fox Networks fall schedule page:
http://www.foxworld.com/schedule/schedule_2001.htm
The Tick is still slated to appear November 8.
I got a chance to see the pilot last week. (I’m sneaky) You knw it’s directed by Barry Sonnenfeld (of Addams Family and Men in Black fame)? And it also even has a guest appearance from Christopher Lloyd? (Very early- that’s not a spoiler.)
I think I may like this series even better than the cartoon if it comes to fruition.
Yeah, I noticed Christopher Lloyd. Do you know who played Bat Manuel? He looked familiar…
I agree that it could become better than the cartoon.
Bat-Manuel is played by Nestor Carbonell. Maybe you recognized him from one of the episodes of one of the tv shows he was featured in?
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Carbonell,+Nestor
Holy crap was that funny. I think it could become THE most quoted show of this season. It was like every 2 minutes a great line came out.
Patrick looks perfect with his face poking out, his “It’ll be brutal face from Seinfeld.” Makes me laugh just looking at him. He didn’t yell spoon though.
I’m ok with Batmanuel, in fact it’s just as funny as Die Fledermaus, but I don’t see why they changed American Maid. IMHO a much funnier name then Capt. Liberty.
I wonder if they’ll recycle any of the cartoon plots? I hope not but I really really love Sarcastro, such a crazy concept, I’d like to see him again. And maybe the Santa episode.
I hope that they do have some of the cartoon plots. Seing how the would do Chairface would be a trip. I’d also get a kick out it if they had the moon with “CHA” written on it each week.
I thought there were legal issues regarding moving secondary characters from the animated series into the live action show. Hence, no American Maid, Die Fledermaus, or Chairface. No cites, but I’m about 99% certain that this was the case.
…but Juniper, what if there’s an apartment/house cleaning company called American Maid? Could they somehow “latch onto” the success of the show? Or sue the show for using a copyrighted name (if it was)?
Sounds a little farfetched, what I just wrote, I know, but I was just wondering. What you posted sounds a lot more feasible.
Quasi
What if?
Plug “American Maid” into the Switchboard.com search box, and you get 56 companies nationwide.
Gues that shoots my theory out of the water, huh? 
So does that mean a guy could get away with having a business called, say, Superman’s Septic Tank Service?
Q
From http://scifi.ign.com/tv/5540.html :
Apparently, Fox Family and Fox Kids actually own the copyright to those characters and they won’t let go or loan them.
mmm…Liz Vassey…
“Void your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee!!”
And, of course, “Java devil, you are now my bitch.” Wasn’t that someone’s sig a while back?
Does that mean no pet either? What was his name? Fetch?