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The Fall TV Season Gets Its First Casualty

Man, Did It Suck / Dustin Rowles

Trade News | September 26, 2008 | Comments (21)

OK. It’s not “officially” canceled, but the Jerry O’Connell hotel-sitcom, “Do Not Disturb,” has been pulled from the air, after only three episodes, and it doesn’t look like it’ll ever be back. It will be replaced by an additional episode of the almost as low-rated and bad “Til Death.”

I actually pondered reviewing “Do Not Disturb,” for the site a couple of weeks ago, but after watching it, I reasoned that it didn’t deserve the attention. It was one racist, fat, sexist, homophobic, offensive joke after another. And not a one was funny. The most embarrassing thing: Jason Bateman was involved in this, as a director of one of the episodes. Yeesh. For shits and giggles, here are my mostly incoherent notes. Make of them what you will:

When was the last time a traditional laugh track sitcom was good?
“I can’t tell how old black people are.” That’s a joke?
Sassy black boss. Oh brother.
Dumb, sexual-harassing manager. That’s new!
Dumb blondes in high heels tripping over them. Eating a sucker, “what am I doing? I had lunch. What am I? An animal?”
Fat jokes? Really? “This is not the plump and lovely bed and big breakfast hotel. It’s the skinny bitch in high heels hotel. You feel me?”
Bad gay humor? “Why can’t I be the wife?”
Oh god! Whathisface!
Jerry O’Connell yelling like a goddamn ninny.
“You have amazing cans, Rhonda.”
“Don’t make a black woman take off her earrings.” ?


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Comments

Why is Quinn Mallory still gettin' work?

Idiot MacD00cherson and his asshole bro' fucked-up Sliders reeeeeaaally good. He's been dead to me since.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 26, 2008 3:20 PM

ah sliders! I haven't thought about that show in a while

It was pretty good for the first few years... well... not like B5 or BSG or ST:TNG good, but you know.... compared ot most of the shit on tv at the time

Posted by: Dariuss at September 26, 2008 3:22 PM

Dariuss: It started sucking vacuum at THE PRECISE moment fat boy here took creative control of it.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 26, 2008 3:26 PM

Has there ever been a *good* sitcom set in a hotel?

Posted by: elsie at September 26, 2008 4:40 PM

Good sitcom in hotel=Fawlty Towers.

So, Ms. Niecy Nash, she of RENO 911! and Clean House, took time off from those shows to do THIS pile of poo?

I tried to watch the first episode and when I found my jaw hanging open in disbelief I turned it over to something really substancial like, um, The Girls Next Door, I think it was.

Posted by: lil_a at September 26, 2008 4:51 PM

Sounds like a low-rent Two and A Half Men. I hate to admit I only find it funny because Charlie Sheen is such an unapologetic douchebag! Oh and the kid is sorta funny too....

Posted by: ph at September 26, 2008 4:59 PM

The last time was never. Laugh tracks ruined American comedy.

Posted by: Lucas at September 26, 2008 5:10 PM

I really wanted this to be good for Niecy Nash's sake. Granted, I didn't actually make any effort to watch the show, but still, I was rooting for her.

Posted by: McGeek at September 26, 2008 5:14 PM

I love Niecy! She's *the* reason to watch Clean House. If I see that other host on there, pfft, I change channels. MMMM!
Poor Niecy will have to go back to Reno 911 and Clean House after all... [sad]

Posted by: Stella at September 26, 2008 5:56 PM

I didn't watch the show but the picture up above looks like one of those super cheap productions that, I think, are shot on video cameras or something. There's always a weird *harshness* (for lack of a better word) about the picture quality. This show looks to be about the same level of quality, production-wise, as Disney sitcoms.

Posted by: elsie at September 26, 2008 6:03 PM

I hope Niecy goes back to "Reno 911". I love that show.

And I will admit to watching "Clean House" upon occasion. Or...you know...every episode. I am tempted to mess up my house just so she will come by with her crew, pull me aside for a heart to heart talk and then call me Diva.

And, not for nothing, don't make a black woman take off her earrings. It means she is about to administer an ass whupping.

Take that knowledge with you. And don't act like I never told you.

Posted by: greer at September 26, 2008 6:43 PM

I believe "Seinfeld" was the last decent sitcom with a laugh track.

Posted by: B-rant at September 26, 2008 7:19 PM

"You have amazing cans, Rhonda."

Oh god, that is the funniest shit I've seen all day. Rhonda has amazing cans...I can't stop laughing... please make it stop, I'm having a hard time breathing.

*gasp*

goodbye cruel world

Posted by: the_wakeful at September 26, 2008 9:59 PM

Oh Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. Make sure you wear flipflops in the shower man, or you'll get warts, like, all over your feet.

Posted by: Kash at September 27, 2008 12:14 AM

Has there been an American remake of Fawlty Towers? If so, can we lynch the people responsible?

Posted by: The Wanderer at September 27, 2008 7:40 AM

Has there been an American remake of Fawlty Towers?

It's been tried a few times. John Larroquette's "Payne" might have been the only successful US one (relatively speaking), and I even saw that John Cleese worked as a consultant on a German remake, "The Germans" not included.

And is it wrong that I'm attracted to Sybil Fawlty?

Posted by: Jay at September 27, 2008 10:28 AM

How I Met Your Mother - I don't know why it has a laugh track, but it does, and the show is still good.

Posted by: Kim at September 27, 2008 12:42 PM

Suck it, Jerry. You just can't top Joe's Apartment.
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Posted by: Jay: And is it wrong that I'm attracted to Sybil Fawlty?

If being attracted to Sybil fawlty is wrong, I don't want to be right. Not that I'm ever right anyway.

Posted by: JC at September 27, 2008 2:34 PM

I happened upon the new Jay Mohr sitcom(Gary Unmarried?), and the ten minutes I watched was 100% out of the standard sitcom playbook. Not as offensive as DND, but equally unimaginative. It was like someone did a find-and-replace w/ MS Word on the script of some other divorced Dad sitcom and just changed the names, and maybe threw in a myspace or Al Gore reference to update it from 10 years ago.

Posted by: zeropointzero at September 28, 2008 1:18 PM

Hey, you know when Sliders ended for me? When it was cancelled by Fox and I was left thinking "Ah damnit, I really liked that show." I was blissfully unexposed to the Sci Fi version, but I was made aware that Professor Arturo and Rembrandt both were killed off.

I pretend these events did not happen, to this very day, and sometimes (particularly when I've had too much coffee and work is slow) I pretend the three of us go on adventures. The Three Musketeers of the Third Dimension. Quinn is no longer with us because we dumped his ass off on another world, and Wade apparently went off to work on some sports show.

Oh shit...I'm almost out of coffee, be right back.

Posted by: Mike R. at September 29, 2008 9:17 AM

I loved this show. Sounds to me that the likes and dislikes of the show are from a few. Everyone I know thought it was funny. To bad people that make these decisions are lame and sensitive.

Posted by: d-love at October 7, 2008 10:49 PM