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Auuuuuugghh!! Auuuuuuugghh!! Missy Reviews NBC
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“You’re scaring the white people!”
Every time I see the promo with Whoopi admonishing the fat Iranian? Nearly break my wrist snatching up the remote!
Who would be the person we’d least like to see starring in a new sitcom? Carrot Top? Magic Johnson? Joe Piscopo? Michael Richards?
NBC, apparently desperate to fill the terrible void left by the cancellation of “Bette,” has decided that what America needs now is a sitcom starring the longtime center square of a syndicated game show. Oh, do we dare hope she’ll be as funny as she was on the most unwatchable Oscarcasts ever? Or as she was ad-libbing alongside Robin and Billy on “Comic Relief”?
Starting this autumn, “Whoopi” airs 8 p.m. Tuesdays, opposite “Gilmore Girls,” “American Juniors,” “Eight Simple Rules,” "One on One" and “Navy NCIS.” It’s about a one-hit wonder turned hotel manager who opens a lounge in the hotel so she can sing. It's from writer-producers Bonnie & Terry Turner (“3rd Rock From the Sun,” “That ‘70s Show,” “Days Like These,” “Normal, Ohio,” “That ‘80s Show”).
Here’s “Missy” with all the gory details:
Who would be the person we’d least like to see starring in a new sitcom? Carrot Top? Magic Johnson? Joe Piscopo? Michael Richards?
NBC, apparently desperate to fill the terrible void left by the cancellation of “Bette,” has decided that what America needs now is a sitcom starring the longtime center square of a syndicated game show. Oh, do we dare hope she’ll be as funny as she was on the most unwatchable Oscarcasts ever? Or as she was ad-libbing alongside Robin and Billy on “Comic Relief”?
Starting this autumn, “Whoopi” airs 8 p.m. Tuesdays, opposite “Gilmore Girls,” “American Juniors,” “Eight Simple Rules,” "One on One" and “Navy NCIS.” It’s about a one-hit wonder turned hotel manager who opens a lounge in the hotel so she can sing. It's from writer-producers Bonnie & Terry Turner (“3rd Rock From the Sun,” “That ‘70s Show,” “Days Like These,” “Normal, Ohio,” “That ‘80s Show”).
Here’s “Missy” with all the gory details:
Starting this autumn, “Whoopi” airs 8 p.m. Tuesdays, opposite “Gilmore Girls,” “American Juniors,” “Eight Simple Rules,” "One on One" and “Navy NCIS.” It’s about a one-hit wonder turned hotel manager who opens a lounge in the hotel so she can sing. It's from writer-producers Bonnie & Terry Turner (“3rd Rock From the Sun,” “That ‘70s Show,” “Days Like These,” “Normal, Ohio,” “That ‘80s Show”).
Here’s “Missy” with all the gory details:
Herc,
I know that this isn’t really that interesting, I mean it’s not like I saw Jake 2.0 or Tru Calling or any other show with some sort of vague Buffy/Mutant Enemy connection. I just wanted to warn you about the WORST show that will be on television this decade.
See, I was wrangled into a focus group screening of Whoopi, the new NBC sitcom starring Whoopi Goldberg. I’ll start off by staying I’m not a huge fan of her work. I liked her stand-up in the 1980’s and thought she did well in Ghost and The Color Purple. I also think that her later work (Rat Race, Eddie, that lame assed movie when she was a cop with a T-Rex) should have gotten her Oscar taken away from her. Well now she has this “multicultural” sitcom for NBC.
This is the type of show that people of all colors, creeds, and classes can hate together.
Whoopi plays a former singer with a few hits many years ago (this of course gives the actress the excuse to break into song randomly) who now runs a Fawlty Towers class of hotel in NYC. She is a cranky, opinionated, likes to smoke and refuses to be politically correct. In other words she is playing the same character that her ex-boyfriend Ted Danson has been inflicting on the world in CBS’ Becker.
In this hotel she lives with a group of WACKY friends and family members. They include her brother Courtney, a preppy former Enron lawyer who is now unemployed (played with way too much talent by Wren T. Brown), his white girlfriend Rita (who seems to have stumbled into each scene from some bad SNL sketch), and Nasim, the Iranian handyman/concierge who gets offended when people think he is Muslim. Of course I got offended when every other joke out of his mouth involved him building nuclear weapons before coming to America.
The plot of this pilot episode was fairly non-existent. Enrico Colantoni from Just Shoot Me! sells Whoopi a television that is much bigger than the one she needs. Her brother lectures her on how she shouldn’t have spent that much money. She and the Iranian guy come up with a wacky plan to return the television. Wackiness ensues. And in the end everyone learns a valuable lesson. Sha-na-na-na.
What this short description can not convey is just how terrible the jokes and characters are. We get a joke about Bush being an idiot, we get the Iranian guy spitting at people, and we have the wigger girlfriend wearing too much jewelry and going, “a’ight”. And then we get these things repeated again and again. Every character seems to have been given one trait which they must repeat over and over again.
By the end of the half hour I was already tired of these people. I can’t imagine watching them and their adventures week after week. It seems that NBC is aware of the dud they have on their hands. After the show we were asked questions about what we thought about the show. One of the questions asked if we felt Whoopi could be improved or if it was “beyond all repair.”
As much of a nightmare as the show is, it isn’t hopeless. The actor playing Whoopi’s brother does some solid work and actually has an interesting back-story. Seeing this guy ready to give up his dream of being a lawyer to just find any job at all is actually kind of touching and is something I think a lot of people can relate to. And his scenes with Whoopi are rich with what I can only call sibling chemistry. They really capture that feeling of both loving and hating someone at the same time. They also have some of the show’s only laughs. Whoopi’s sassiness works much better when it is able to be bounced off a straight man character like Courtney. Unfortunately the show seems to think it is funnier to see Whoopi making fun of Rita or getting into trouble with Nasim.
I really can’t recommend this show to anyone. The test screening had no laughs and even a few people got up and left. But I suppose if your TiVo’s aren’t busy you should really try and see at least one episode because it is like watching a train wreck with midgets.
If it lasts more than 3 episodes I’ll be shocked and pretty depressed.
Thanks and keep up the good work,
Missy
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I liked that T-rex movie....okay...I liked that T-rex concept....okay...I liked the balls it took to make such an awful idea.....but i am too liquored up to know the difference.....so i may like this show if the cocktails are right......And thus, first? - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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What kind of crack were the network hanchos smoking when they thought that that black hole of comedy, Whoopi Goldberg could carry a sitcom?
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Jul 08, 2003 1:12:44 AM CDT
Everyone loves the U.S.A., and it shows the way they always chan
by chickengeorgevii
It is such a wonderful idea to make fun of the Iranian character, and of course, broadcast it overseas for all the world to see. Because, as we all know, Arabs are known for their great sense of humor.....And thus, I'm hiding in my couch fort! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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This show sounds Craptacular or is it Craptastic? Only time will tell.
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Carrot Top, obvously. Was their some question?
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But not this fecal program. I'm sure a review wasn't necessary -- the promo NBC is showing for the program oozes awfulness. My sympathies to the reviewer.
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man, midgets rock. I mean...they're all small and stuff.
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I was actually planning on catching an episode because I thought the Iranian guy was Alexei Sayle from the quick clip I saw. Since it's not, I shant be watching. Oh well.
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How about we put all these stars on one show, so it'd be easier to avoid them.
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Well , let's see. Fire the cast. Shoot the writers in the lungs so they drown in their own blood. Burn down the sets. Sounds like a good first few steps towards fixing things.
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Had that thought too, that the Iranian character might be Alexi Sayle, for about two seconds. Then I realized that he had WAY too much self-respect to be caught in cluster-phuck of this magnitude. Man I wish the BBC would release his STUFF series on DVD. Some of the best sketch writing in the 80s. (Ethel Merman Sandwich made with real bits of Ethel Merman, Snow White and the Seven Samurai, etc.)
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Jeeeeez.
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... Omid Djalili: a British Stand-up who plays the token Iranian in shows (as well as an Indian in Anita and Me). Also was in the Mummy as the Prison Warden who has a bug eat his brain. He is generally quite funny on Brit TV, but what he is doing in this car crash of a show is beyond me...
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she can be really, really funny.
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Jul 08, 2003 10:57:48 AM CDT
Talking street doesn;t make youone, deluding yourself as to what
by jasondkeldar
like Fistina Hag-uilera, erstwhile Latina because "my name is Latin" when the Latin wave broke, then a 'ho when Pink broke, though Pink was less a wannabe than someone fronting the talk, also a popular thing from white girls to do.
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Whoopi's magnum opus THEODROE REX is out today on DVD!
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Stop hiding in your delusions ass munch, Iranians are not Arabs, neither are Indians or Pakistanis, but folks like you seem to enjoy throwing all brown-tinged people in one big soup category before flying over to bomb the fuck out of all of 'em!!! And since when has any ethnic stereotype in American entertainment ever been cause for international political concern. Entertainment's been making fun of all ethnicities, whether you RACIALLY decree a particular ehtnicity as not having humour. What about Germans, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, or countless Latin American countries? They are all nations that have been lampooned and in more severe cases presented as true villains in these fantastic action movies we all love to watch. America has had problems with them too and as far as i can tell even if you have the balls to say that an entire race doesn't have a sense of humour I can't recall any of those countries attacking American soil. So go fuck yourself Chicken-Shit #7, thus you must stick your thumbs in your anal-area! --Pacino Haters Go Home, the first, you mofo.
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it sounds awful, and probably is awful, and whoopi has never said anything funny, ever, and it's a total mishmash of everything else on nbc. what's not to like?
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Too Funny!
How bout a crossover show with the cast of Hello Larry and Veronica's Closet? -
While, true, Whoopi Goldberg has done some really good stuff in the past, it seems that it will remain in the distant past, especially since she's gotten that socio-political burr permanently crammed up her ass. She thinks she cannot be touched so she can spout any dipshit drivel and reach people and get them to change their thinking without having to suffer the consequences when she trips over her ego and fucks up. And what the HELL is it with NBC that they can't see this series as the mangy, flea-infested mongrel that it is. Ethnic joking about prejudging an Iranian immigrant as a potential terrorist? Oh, that's a laugh riot. I suppose the writers think that humor bridges all gaps between cultures, but they're wrong. This will insult more people than it will bring together. I can't wait for this to be axed. I just wish the suits who greenlighted it would be too.
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It's times like this that I wish NewsRadio was still on.
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Jul 08, 2003 2:42:32 PM CDT
I can't wait for the inevitable John Larroquette "stunt cameo"
by trav mcgee
Complete with extra-long, scene-interrupting "spontaneous gasps, squeals and applause" from the "audience" when he first enters. I wonder how many times every week Crystal and Williams have to tell Whoopi NO, they won't do an episode.
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but boy did it stink.
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Dude, that guy is kickin! I'd like to see him by himself in a sitcom, where he's teamed up with Tom Sizemore in a reimbursed version of Robbery Homicide Division. But anyway, yes, Whoopi is fucking annoying, and yes, I would take Michael Richards over her. And that Normal, Ohio shit was funny! With John Goodman, remember? No. Oh, and long live THAT '70'S SHOW!
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But I stop reading the review as soon as she said wigger. Why would this site censor everything else but that? It is offensive to both blacks and whites.
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The term, "Wigger" is offensive only to wiggers. The fact that they exist is offensive to both Blacks and Whites.
This is the result of an intimate, two-person survey of myself (a White man) and my wife (a Black woman). -
I have to respectfully disagree. Interesting enough, I too am in a interracial marriage. I know the millions of white kids trying to emulate all things urban can be annoying as sin. But to classify them as wiggers is saying, something has to be wrong with white people who act or want to be like niggers. I listen to music from Tupac, dead prez, Jay-Z, to Bach, Bizet, Johnny Cash, System of a Down, Bjork, and Radiohead. By that definition I too can be classfied as an oreo or Blonky (OK I made that last one up). I always speak up for things like that, no matter if the source is black, white, asain, hispanic etc....
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Jul 09, 2003 4:27:49 PM CDT
Well... duh. The odds of this show being worth-a-damn were about
by diskatopia
Monk or The Dead Zone or 99 other shows. If the aforementioned shows have too few eps, just combine them into one free-for-all TalkBack.
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Jul 09, 2003 4:29:46 PM CDT
I'm no good with that Vegas stuff, maybe the above should read 1
by diskatopia
Anyways, high suckage probability.
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Jul 09, 2003 5:11:00 PM CDT
Haha, Iv'e posted three times on a Talkback for a show that won'
by diskatopia
It's not Carrot Top per se that's irritating... it's the Cruella DeVille make-up job they seem to give him for most of those damn commercials. That's what makes me cringe.
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Jul 10, 2003 3:33:11 AM CDT
Ah the sitcom, graveyard of an ever increasing number of Hollywo
by noopinion
Building a sitcom around a washed up Hollywood star is usually a bad idea, especially if you call the show the stars first name. I predict in the next couple of years we'll be treated to EDDIE, starring Eddie Murphy.
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seriously sorry I never saw that and I can't figure out a movie with those initials.
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