I thought it was pretty good and I’ll be watching every episode. I had no idea Liz Vassey would be on it! Even if the show gets worse I’ll watch just to see her.
Slight hijack-
Gundy, if you don’t mind my asking, was your gift dubbed by a friend, or was it a set of tapes put out by FoxKids or whoever produced the show? I’ve been wanting a complete set of the cartoon since it went off the air, but haven’t been able to find any.
Never read the comics, maybe caught bits of one or two of the cartoons … and I LOVED it!
I can’t believe no one has yet mentioned the best lines of the night - “Ah, fair city, I will cover you with my creamy butter of justice … your toast will never be bare again!”
Sua
For those of you who’ve read the comic book, is it different from the animated show? I get the feeling it’s a little “edgier” than the cartoon show ever was. I agree with other posters about being shocked by parts of the live-action show. The Tick should say, “Spoon!” not “bitch”. And Die Flederm–err, Bat Manuel–should be slapped for his cheap come ons, and not get the pleasure of rolling around on top of Captain Liberty.
And bring on the Civic-Minded Five! Mucilage Man! The carpet-wearing guy who shocks you with static electric discharge! And Sewer Urchin! (“Sewer Urchin, are you stinking on purpose?”)
The thing I always loved about the cartoon, though, was the moon. In one episode, an evil child genius starting carving his name in the moon (I think he only got a few letters into it). Later, another evil genius blew a huge chunk out of the moon. I loved the fact that in later episodes, you would occasionally see the moon hanging in the sky, huge chunk missing and name scrawled halfway across it.
No, nononono. It has to stay on. Quit saying they’re going to cut it. So the timing was off on some jokes and there are some more adult items in it. It’s the Tick. I want it to last long enough for them to get better. The one liners alone are enough.
Batmanuel (Nudge, wink), “Know what I mean?”
Tick, “Nope.”
Batmanuel answering the cell phone, “On a roof, of course.”
I think the thing with Batmanuel and Captain Liberty might have been needed for future comic taunting. I remember a bit of it from the cartoon. I wasn’t really thrilled with the makeout scene but Tick’s lack of reaction was funny.
I see some potential for a good show. If there’s a petition of some kind to get the network to please keep it on, I’ll sign it. My gaming group has already decided Thursdays are our new night. We’ll just take a break for the show.
I loved when they take a cab over to the City Hotel. The Tick jumps out and runs away, shouting, “I don’t have any money!”
I don’t know why, but I laughed and laughed and laughed.
Oh, wait. I do know why. I was high.
But still, I’ll definitely watch it again.
This actually was my favorite bit. They repeated it like two or three times. Once when Tick was off-camera, and this “nope” comes drifting in from the side somewhere.
Die Fledermaus flirted with anything in a skirt, including American Maid, whose reaction uniformly was disgust.
The carpeted man is called–wait for it–Carpeted Man!
“I still have your panties!”
“Are you going to fight me like a girl, or fight me like a woman??”
I thought it was hilarious. Did anyone else notice the “We Serve Superheroes” sign behind the bar?
Hopefully “SPOON!!” will make its way into the show…
This was pretty horrible…It’s fairly sad when most of the “good stuff” was lifted directly from the animated series (“where is your trigger” leading to “couch turns into a bed”, “gravity is a harsh mistress”).
The bus stop scene showed promise, but then he called the coffee machine his bitch. But it didn’t lose me until they completely failed to grasp the whole experience that is the Tick running across the rooftops. The whole building should shake with each step he takes, and he should have just plowed through those TV ariels that he carefully knocked out of the way.
I’ll watch it next week, and discard if it doesn’t get better.
-LV
Actually, those scenes in the cartoon were lifted verbatim from the comicbook. And you could see they had to struggle to find a context for the “Gravity” line, but they managed to work it in. Be patient; they’re just getting started, and it could go anywhere from here.
“Heh heh. Those darn ninjas. They’re wacky.”
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“Ninjas aren’t dangerous. They’re more afraid of you than you are of them.”
–From “Night of a Million Zillion Ninjas”
I could watch those animated antennae all night, even if there was nothing else on the show. They could call it the “Animatronic Antennae Show” and I’d still watch it.
For anyone who slags The Tick - at least they made this show! A bad episode of live action Tick is infinitely preferable to any episode of any “reality-based” show, or any other number of “turn your brain off and sit and watch all slack-jawed” shows. I’ll cut anything that takes a chance like this a whole lotta slack. Just my opinion, of course. 
Anyone else catch what Tick was saying as he fought off the Russians?
“Stop DOING that!” - to the guy hitting him on the back of the head with a lead pipe.
And at one random point, “Don’t do drugs!”, as a Russian goes flying across the screen.
Hee hee hee.
I was VERY disappointed. I didn’t see too much of the animated series and I’ve never seen the comic, so I wasn’t completely sure what to expect, but I did hope to see something funny. I got really bored and switched channels at the second commercial break, never to return.
I was somewhat disappointed. It had it’s moments, but the show just doesn’t work as live-action.
I always seem to wander into a Tick episode 2/3 of the way through. Oddly enough, I like it anyway. But I have a couple questions
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Where does the Big Blue Guy come from? I mean, what’s his “secret origin”?
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Does the Tick have a “secret identity” or is he that way all the time? (That would explain why he has no money)
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Where do these other lunatics come from? Radioactive spider bites? The city got dusted by some weirdo chemical from outer space? It’s just never explained?
(1) He came from the bus station to the City.
(2) He’s like that all the time – I expect him to max out Arthur’s credit card sometime like in the cartoon (one of the best episodes, launching the thrilling “Spoon!” battle cry).
(3) In a world of superheroes, it’s best not to ask such questions. What’s a superhero without supervillains, anyway?
Pope Bob
Church of The Gunshow
Hmmm. Well, I am innocent of having ever read the comic or seen the animated series (another sign, if needed, of my declining hipness) but I liked the live-action version. In fact, many of the best lines flew by so fast that I’m sorry I didn’t tape the thing.
In addition to most of the bits already mentioned, the Red Menace doing that thing with the hammer and sickle cracked me up, for some reason.
Plus, if Barry Sonnenfeld intends to direct more of the episodes, that’ll definitely keep me watching.
The lines quoted in this thread are much funnier now than they were on TV.
Must have been the delivery. They lose something in the original.
My favorite line was by the Russian:
“…MUST…KILL…JIMMY…CARTER…”
I really liked the show, being a fan of Patrick Wharburton (the guy cast as the Tick). Having never seen the comic or cartoon I thought it was very funny and well cast. Much more entertaining than the sofa-in-the-middle-of-the-living-room sitcoms that are out there.
How can you not like a show with lines like:
"I wouldn't go out there. The Armageddon Cow is fifty feet tall and shoots fire from her teats."?