Re: CBS' Worst Week
Quote:
| Everything that happened to him was just normal stuff that happens to everyone during the course of their lives. |
Yeah, I've lost track of the number of times I've ended up naked in the apartment of a drunk chick I
didn't want to sleep with and ended up improvising a garbage bag loin-cloth and taking a cab to my future in-law's house in the middle of the night.
I
hate when that happens.
Let's review:
Not blowing off the party and pissing off the woman you've just a) impregnated and b) asked to marry you. (In that order.) Doofus squared.
Talking to drunk chick at party with girlfriend on the phone - dumb. (A smart guy would have hung up, lost the drunk chick, called the girlfriend back and pretended it was a dropped call. He wouldn't have stood there waiting around for the situation to get worse.)
Staying as late at party as he did - dumb.
Getting into the cab
with the drunk girl. Dumb. Why even go there? Why even take the risk? Put her in her
own cab, hail (or call) another one for yourself. (BTW, what happened to her car and the car she backed into? Did Sir Galahad call a tow truck? Report the accident? Leave her insurance information on the windshieild of the other car?)
Showering at the girl's apartment - incredibly dumb. Also pointless. His clothes were still going to be vomit-stained and his pants and jacket weren't washable. So he was still going to have to go back to his place to change unless he wanted to show up at the future in-laws in a nice vomit-encrusted outfit.
Not even
noticing there are no towels in the bathroom - dumb.
The only reason any of this stuff happened in the show is because the plot would have come to a screeching halt if he
hadn't. None of them were motivated by character or rooted in plausibility (unless the character is just supposed to be incredibly stupid, in which case one wonders how he even has a job.) No, everything just happened to set up the next joke. It is the comedy version of what Roger Ebert calls "the idiot plot", the one where everyone has to act like an idiot the whole movie would fall apart the first time did something smart like call the cops or not go into the spooky old house alone.
I can't comment further, because right at the point where he entered the parent's house in his plastic diaper I realized I had no interest in or sympathy for any of the characters, least of all the lead, and simply didn't
care what happened next or what he said. Oh, I forgot - I did stick around long enough to hear his start his lame-ass lie about going to some
guy's apartment. Because there's no chance the drunk girl's story will
ever get back to the girlfriend and
of course there's not going to be any problem with his alibi friend like the guy going straight from the party to the airport for a trip out of the country or being in the morning paper because he was arrested for DUI.
Didn't laugh once - in part because I'd seen all of the parts that were even mildly amusing 100 times already thanks to the non-stop promos for the show. But mostly because I don't generally find stupid to be funny. I usually give a new show that seems appealing a couple of weeks to find its feet, but now that I've seen half an episode instead of just the snippets in the ads, it is clear that they're going for a
style of comedy that just doesn't appeal
to me. So I didn't hesitate to stop the recording and blow it off my DVR's hard drive. YMMV.
Regards,
Joe
