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Hercules Says DO NOT DISTURB, From Some Of The Folks Behind ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, May Be The Worst New Show Of The Year!!
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I am – Hercules!!
A chillingly bad laughtrack-happy sitcom about the staff of a Manhattan hotel from the “Arrested Development” team of writer-producer Abraham Higginbotham and director Jason Bateman, “Do Not Disturb” stars Niecy Nash (“Reno 911!”) and Jerry O’Connell (“Carpoolers”).
As unlikely as this sounds, it’s actually harder to watch than “Carpoolers,” 22 minutes of spazzy recycled pre-fab awful.
USA Today gives it a star and a half (out of four) and says:
… if you waste your time watching this flat dreck, you may never watch TV again. …
The Associated Press says:
… doesn't much bother being funny … far from the worst sitcom on the air. It's fast-paced, non-demanding, a suitable default mode as background noise while you're doing something else. …
The New York Times says:
… Will there already be a cancellation before the premiere of “Surviving Suburbia” on Nov. 2 makes the fall schedule complete? (I wouldn’t get too attached to “Do Not Disturb.”) …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… Overall, it's serviceable -- more Holiday Inn than the Four Seasons, but roach free and with no curious stains on the carpet. While there's nothing particularly wrong with "Do Not Disturb," neither is there anything so inspired as to make you leap to your feet, crying, "Yes! This is what television needs! More workplace comedies! More hotels!" …
The Chicago Tribune says:
Every fall, there's at least one. A program so bad that it's not only unpleasant to watch, but it makes you fear for the future of network television. This year, that show is a "comedy" called "Do Not Disturb." …
The Washington Post says:
… instead of opting for the trite title, Higginbotham should have looked harder for something more novel. He could have found one suitable title right there in his own dialogue: We're thinking, of course, of "Don't Let This Happen to You." …
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
… doesn't have one funny moment in the unbearable 22 minutes of its pilot …
The Boston Herald says:
There’s a dearth of mirth in Fox’s “Do Not Disturb.” You can almost hear the cockroaches snoring. … The show is so bad it makes this viewer long for “Carpoolers,” O’Connell’s sitcom bomb from last season. Fox can’t shutter this flophouse fast enough.
The Boston Globe says:
… Wow. Fox has outdone itself in the Bad and Self-Consciously Offensive Dept. Set at a New York hotel, starring Jerry O'Connell and the usually hysterical Niecy Nash from "Reno 911," this workplace sitcom is a mess of flat gender and racial gags. …
Variety says:
… hackneyed … fetid … Broad isn't automatically bad, of course, but broad and woefully unfunny are a pretty deadly combination. Whatever the underlying strategy, "Do Not Disturb" has the jumbled look and unsavory feel of an unmade motel bed.
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… They say sitcoms are just one hit away from making a comeback to their previous glory. Maybe so, but Fox's "Do Not Disturb" isn't it. This is a show that could bury the genre altogether. …
9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Fox.
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But I like Jerry O'Connell...he needs a new agent. Maybe time for Sliders: The Next Generation!
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"IT STINKS!"
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Sliders was good. And of course.."Dis Cush".
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in: "O'Connel 2 O'Connel".
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and its fucking horseshit it's on fox? well cancell it motherfuckers, its actually a show that deserves to be cancelled this time around.
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So he has that going for him. This show looked like a turd from the commercials. Thanks for the warning, Herc. What's the best new comedy, by the way?
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Premise wasted, just like Voyager. Bad sci-fi like that makes it harder for the genre to go mainstream (see: BSG)
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mrs. Nash needs to get her foolishness ass back to Clean House, and o'connell needs to go make john stamos cry some more while keeping his own monkey clone brother out of trouble.
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Now I need to see it just for the fuck of it. Will it be better (worse) than The Ropers? Remember Jefffrey Tambor in the opening of that sitcom with the plunger? Classic.
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When he was hawking Hancock on the talk shows this summer, he showed himself to be a genuinely funny guy. Was he forced by gunpoint to direct this, or did he need a credit on his DGA card that badly? And does Comedy Central pay the Reno cast so poorly they have to whore themselves out to other, lower projects? And for this they cancelled Back To You? At least that had some pros behind it...and it showed some promise.
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But the guy from "Valerie's Family" and the kid from "My Secret Identity" were not the same.
So, this man who is self-conscious about his wooden eye goes to a dance, but no one wants to dance with him.
He sees this woman standing all alone across the room and approaches her. She turns to him and she has a harelip. Desperately, he asks, "Would you like to dance with me?"
Her face lights up and she excitedly proclaims, "Would I? Would I?", to which the man responds, screaming, "HARELIP! HARELIP!" -
Revenge of the Bachelor
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If this is the one with the woman who doesn't eat and is vain that I've seen advertised it looks like bad 80s crud. What is it that people who approve tv shows smoke? Crap like this gets on the air so does that mean that the others are even more horrible?
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Niecy Nash should be transported back in time to when her character wasn't a horrible racial stereotype.The shot composition alone was cringe-worthy.
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...was a boring, one-note show, but with a talented cast. This isn't that surprising.
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...one note??? I have to go home now...My head it hurts...
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Just because you didn't get the jokes doesn't mean AD wasn't funny. AD writers threw jokes under the bus for shits'n'giggles.
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I WISH I WAS BLIND!
Keep it Jerry and you'll end up working SciFi Conventions charging $30 for an autograph from "Star of Sliders"...
gfy
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THE HIGH PITCH ERIC SHOW. Extricating himslf from Howard Stern's shadow, High Pitch proves himself more versatile than Seinfeld (NBC press release).
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Soon in a Videostore near you.
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because I really enjoyed Fred Goss' show "Sons & Daughters," which ABC canceled after less than a season. That show was pretty funny, even with the stupid "The dialogue in Sons & Daughters is partially improvised" disclaimer ABC put before it to make sure the general public understood that they would not be prompted when to laugh by a studio audience. They never even released it on DVD because the production company couldn't afford to license the songs for a box set. Too bad... luckily, I've got the episodes saved on my hard drive."Carpoolers" was so bad, I couldn't even finish the pilot episode. It's hard to believe this show is actually worse. Looks like Jerry O'Connell is just prime-time comedy poison.
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He has the Midas touch...OF SHIT
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Sep 10, 2008 7:12:24 PM CDT
laugh track? it's actually filmed before a live studio audience.
by i87d
true story.
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Please, make it stop, world.
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I would have been pretty pissed if this show was supposed to be good, and I felt like I had to put up with Jerry fucking O'Connell for the sake of the arrested development guys. God, he's terrible.
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I liked Carpoolers. Marmaduke was funny.
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Isn't it ironic that Cheers is being pimped on the same page as this crap? O'Connell may be Midas of Crap, but he goes home to Rebecca Romijn every night and we don't.
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Most underrated show of the season. Marmaduke forever!
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If CARPOOLERS was THE MARMADUKE HOUR (and it was only 15 minutes) it would've been a big hit. And on that note, networks need to start doing 15-minute shows already. 30 minutes is way too long for a sitcom. But I digress.
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ENTOURAGE is so nice to watch because it doesn't overstay its welcome. You're like "it's over already?" at the end and you look forward to the next episode. Meanwhile, an hour-long episode of CSI: NY feels like you've been watching it for three months by the end.
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David Cross MIGHT be gay! His wife (and her mother, and Job) are vapid! The dad is a liar! Fonzie! Michael Cera's one expression (which follows him to every other acting job). The frustration it all causes Michael! Like I said, a talented cast, but a show that short on material deserved it's short run. Believe me, I tried, and I did get the jokes - the same one they did week after week after week...
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Sep 11, 2008 3:20:23 AM CDT
yeah, Arrested Development did the same jokes over & over again
by amy chasing
But in so many different situations and yet the characters still didn't learn - that was its charm.
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I'm getting sick of seeing those. It's a cliche that needs to stop NOW. I was on the fence about the show, but now with the crap reception, I'm not watching.
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When people try to make high brow genus comedy for TV, it gets cancelled. Now they go to the extreme opposite!
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Man I have been working in exclusive and top rated hotels my whole life and can say that there is so much shit that goes on that's comedy gold but no one gets it right. Hotel Babylon on BBC is pretty good, worth the time but there's still so much that could be mined out of it. Just the other day I had to deal with a guy who was adament that the woman in his room was his buddies not his and that his buddy was staying with him and he was all mad that we told her his name and the whole time I am watching security footage of him with her for 8 days, no one else around so basically he's given her a fake name but put his real name on the room. People do messed up things in hotels. I found 50k in Chinese money once and a machete under a mattress. Crazy things.
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I didn't really mind "Carpoolers"... it was generic fluff but at least the tempo kept bouncing along, but "DND" actually depressed me...I was actually sad after the credits rolled.
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and I shut it off. How does garbage like this get greenlit?
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Till Death look good by comparison. All part of Brad Garrett's plan to remain on tv, and Fox's plan to keep Joely Fisher's breasts on network rotation.
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...that Higgenbotham and Bateman made this PURPOSELY bad as revenge for "Arrested Development" being cancelled. This could very well be the "Freddy Got Fingered" of television.
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their resume as a GOTCHA!..? I somehow doubt it.
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don't be a hater....
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Loved Carpoolers but this show is godawful.
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This was so bad I had to stop watching after 3 minutes. That hasn't happened to me before, ever.
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also, I think the war in Iraq is going really well, and Lost just keeps getting better as a show...
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This show reminded me a bit of the old sitcom HOT L Baltimore... but this one is focused on the trivial staff and is not nearly as funny, just a tired and lazy sort of commonly lewd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_L_Baltimore
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(man did that show suck) I'm willing to give this one a shot now!
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