I am – Hercules!!
“A little difficult? He has a raccoon in the shed!”
Never mind “Boston Legal.” “Star Trek” and Priceline commercials are funnier than “Shit My Dad Says.”
William Shatner is the man, and it seems likely any series he stars in will do well in the timeslot following "Big Bang Theory.”
But make no mistake. This cashgrab of a laughtrack shitcom from the creators of “Will & Grace” is not worthy of your attention, let alone the Shat’s talents.
USA Today says:
… Oh, for heaven's sake, shut up. If nothing else, give this new sitcom — the first ever to be based on a Twitter feed — credit for truth in advertising. Not a single thing William Shatner's Dad has said in those ubiquitous CBS ads has been even remotely funny, a trend that continues in tonight's premiere.…
The New York Times says:
… a bad idea from the moment it was announced. … a wholly generic sitcom so divorced from its source material that you have to pinch yourself to remember it had anything to do with the Internet, or with the world after 1985. It might as well have been based on a greeting card. …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… Oddly, at 79, Shatner comes across as too energetic and youthful even for the 72-year-old he's playing. The bigger problem is that he's given nothing to do or say worth the doing or saying. He gets better mileage from a Priceline commercial. …
The Washington Post says:
… makes you realize how badly we need an Archie Bunker now. But this dad isn't the one. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… long on situation (it's based on a Twitter feed about a young guy who tweets his father's outrageous exclamations) and short on comedy. …
The San Francsico Chronicle says:
… no matter how much the laugh track gets sweetened. Face it, "$#*! My Dad Says" was a bad idea from inception to pilot. …
HitFix says:
… if it's not the worst new show of the fall, that's only because it's airing on a night when there are two other prime contenders in ABC's "My Generation" and NBC's "Outsourced." …
TV Squad says:
You know what's funny about William Shatner? William Shatner being William Shatner. The Shat uttering contrived sitcom lines, which is what happens on '$#*! My Dad Says' (8:30PM ET Thursday, CBS), doesn't make him funny. Shatner tries hard to fit himself within the narrow confines of this brittle sitcom, but the entire enterprise ends up working against the enjoyably goofy, spontaneous aspects of his personality.The fact is, the Shat doesn't thrive in the setup-joke rhythm common to traditional sitcoms. He has a Weird. Rhythm. All his. Own. But that isn't the only problem bedeviling this sitcom. The idea behind it -- that a popular Twitter feed could be the foundation for a good sitcom -- is fatally flawed. …
The Boston Herald says:
… the worst new show of fall. … Here’s a tweet from me: This show is a piece of (bleep).
The Boston Globe says:
… If volume meant quality, “$#*! My Dad Says’’ would be a comedy gem. The actors, led by star William Shatner, shout their punch lines like infomercial pitchmen, and the laugh track makes your ears wish they could blink … so blandly traditional, so predictably brash, and so lazy. …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… a disappointment for CBS, which squandered valuable preseason buzz by executing a terrible pilot. Let's put it this way: "$#*!" makes ABC's ill-fated appropriation of the Geico cavemen in 2007 look like sheer genius. …
Variety says:
… barely watchable, but only because the fleeting moments of heart overshadow the mostly limp one-liners. In a business obsessed with younger demos, the septuagenarian Shatner is an unlikely sitcom star, but he provides the lone spark in this otherwise-formulaic comedy. …
8:30 p.m. Thursday. CBS.
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