Sit Down, Shut Up... And Get Off My Television.

As one of the six people who not only remember the original Australian Sit Down, Shut Up, but also watched more than one episode I think that we’re the only people who can honestly ask the question: Why in God’s name would you remake such a freaking awful program?

The Australian version is getting more press now than it ever did when it was on the air. What possessed one of the creators of Arrested Development, no less, to bring this rancid corpse of a Stephen Curry vehicle back to life?

I’m not even sure where to begin on the program itself. It’s animated. It’s voiced by a bunch of guys who would be better used in live action form like Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Will Forte, Kristen Chenoweth, Kenan Thompson... although probably not Cheri Oteri. The show revolves around the wacky lives of a bunch of overly stereotyped and horribly drawn teachers who work at a high school and get into antics and shit.

Several thoughts roll through your mind while watching this ... I can’t think of anything more elegant to call it than ‘piece of crap’. Thoughts like:

How can there possibly be a show that looks worse animated than King Of The Hill?

Why didn’t somebody just split this cast up into groups of three and assign them a series of live action sitcoms to actually showcase their talents?

Why am I sitting here wishing I was watching Family Guy? – the first true sign of a horrible horrible program: anything that makes you wish for Seth MacFarlane.

I’m not sure if I should even bother explaining the plot which involves a male teacher who grows boobs in a storyline that I’m pretty sure The Drew Carey Show did a decade ago. There’s really nothing in this show that would warrant a collection of badly animated five minute web videos let alone an entire prime time network series.

Go figure that if you remake an awful freaking show that nobody watched you’d get yourselves an awful freaking show that nobody watched.

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