You know a TV show is going to be og-awful when the trailers make you squirm uncomfortably.
Rob Schneider’s drecky new sitcom, ¡Rob!, looks like a very cheap and unfunny mash-up of The George Lopez Show / Dharma and Greg. The only reason I’ll be watching it is to see Eugenio Derbez play “Hector”, Rob’s wife’s uncle.
Derbez is an actor, writer, director, producer, stand-up comedian, and the creator and star of the anarchically hilarious sitcom, La famila P. Luche, a sort-of Married With Children meets The Simpsons.
Derbez is trying to break into the English-speaking market. His first role as an English-speaking actor is in Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill, in which he plays a gardener and the gardener’s grandmother. In an interview, Derbez mentioned he wore his “Armando Hoyos” character’s glasses when playing Grandma. Hee hee hee!
I just know ¡Rob! will be axed. I only hope it runs long enough for Derbez to get noticed, resulting in more English-speaking roles for him.
Omg how could I not have heard of this? I hope it makes it I am not ashamed of my Rob Schneider love. Now excuse me while I figure out when to set my DVR!
What’s odd is that I initially thought "hey, maybe they’ll actually go against Mexican stereotypes…all of her family will be 100% legal (maybe even all born in the US,) have high-paying, professional jobs, etc…
I saw one promo for it and it almost seems like they went that way…Rob is a landscape architect, and his wife/GF’s mom dismisses him as “a gardener.” Oh, so he’s the gardener, not the Hispanics, i get it!
But no, then two seconds later we meet the uncle who is visiting from Mexico for the weekend and he’s never going back…ugh.
And I admit I don’t know a lot (well, anything, really) about how one might legally vacation from Mexico to the US, as the uncle is (initially) doing, but I imagine that if you’re a Mexican who is in a position to do it legally, as he seems to be, and have lots of family that seem to be in the US legally and doing fine, then you probably aren’t in any great need to be an illegal immigrant and work for less than minimum wage.
Okay, so I was prepared to hate this show. I gotta confess, though, I actually smirked a couple of times and chuckled at least once.
Is it as bad as the Daily Beast’s reviewer claims? Yeah, pretty much. It’s stale, contrived, unoriginal, hackneyed, etc. But I laughed a laugh of bitter irony at the “So you’re a gardener?” line because Derbez’s first English-speaking role in a movie was a gardener, and his first on TV is a (possibly-future) illegal immigrant. (He’s legal until he overstays his tourist visa.) But the follow-up snipe about leaf blowers was overkill.
Anyway, as lame as this show is, I’ll watch it again just for Derbez.
@The creators/producers: want to make ¡Rob! fresh, original, and most important, screamingly funny? Let Eugenio Derbez write it!
I don’t think we made it thru half of this dreck before moving on. It wasn’t funny or clever or novel or anything but cringe-worthy. It reminded me of a really bad high school variety show skit, with all of the predictable and trite stereotypes in abundance. The whole bit with the grandmother was especially juvenile.
I love Cheech Marin but I just lost a lot of respect for him for being a part of this.
Most new series’ first episodes have good ratings, especially if they follow an established hit show (which The Big Bang Theory is). What will matter is how many of those viewers return for the rest of the shows, and especially, how many of those viewers are in the coveted “18-49” demographic.
That was cancelled after the second episode. Not sure why it wasn’t canceled before the second episode, but hopefully we can all forget it ever happened now.
Okay, okay, so I’ve been ranting about Eugenio Derbez’s talent. Here’s why: the first part of one of my favorite episodes of La familia P. Luche–Déjenme dormir. PG-13
I am not ashamed of my Rob Schneider love. Now excuse me while I figure out when to set my DVR!