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May 27th, 2009 15 Comments

I’m not sure if it will be funny but this Goode Family show would seem to give a clue to how to make fun of liberals they could learn on Fox News. Key element? Funny first.

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15 Responses to “Making Fun Of Liberals”

  1. yo mama says:
    May 27, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    South Park is still tops at making fun of everything. Liberal and conservative.

  2. Quaker in a Basement says:
    May 27, 2009 at 1:04 pm

    Shoot. I was hoping it was going to be an American version of the British “Goode Neighbors” aka “The Goode Life.”

  3. LTMidknite says:
    May 27, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    It has potential

  4. ed says:
    May 27, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    Seems to me that the single joke will get stale in short order. King of the Hill made the same jokes and observations (which were funny) within a framework of realistic characters, and never relied solely those observations to drive the show.

  5. News Reference says:
    May 27, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    The writer, Mike Judge, has turned out some funny stuff.

    Office Space is a classic.


    Mike Judge’s Extract Trailer Starring Jason Bateman and Ben Affleck (with Mila Kunis) was funny.

    Didn’t see Idiocracy but read rumors that it offended FOX so much that they cut it’s promotional budget, anybody see it?

    And King of the Hill is/was surprisingly subversive.

  6. ed says:
    May 27, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Idiocracy was decent, but not entirely fleshed out. Some funny stuff. It mocked Sarah Palin Republicans pretty well (fish in a barrel, but still…). There was at least one good Fox joke which the suits probably didn’t care for. You should check out the number one TV show 500 years from now:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtOLqNuTOag&feature=related

    (spanish version)

  7. KXB says:
    May 27, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    Rather than “making fun of liberals” or “making fun of conservatives”, Judge seems to target trendiness and popularity, no more so than when it is just a marketing lure by large corporations. King of the Hill never got the respect from Fox it deserved. Hank Hill could have started out as just a Texan Homer Simpson, but Judge wisely went in a different direction, and made Hank Hill a full fleshed out character.

  8. yo mama says:
    May 27, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Idiocracy has some very funny moments. Neat concept as well.

  9. Duros62 says:
    May 27, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    You should check out the number one TV show 500 years from now:

    Would that be “Ow, My Balls!”?

  10. Oliver Willis says:
    May 27, 2009 at 6:13 pm

    IT’S GOT ELECTROLYTES!

  11. Duros62 says:
    May 27, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    But it’s the <a href=http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003066.htmllittle things that I like the most.

  12. News Reference says:
    May 27, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Starbucks?

  13. gocart mozart says:
    May 27, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    I always thought that Beevis and Butthead was satire but based on that clip, it must have been autobiographical.

  14. American Citizen says:
    May 28, 2009 at 11:06 am

    I saw some of the Goode Family, and I don’t think it could sustain the same joke for a whole season. There were similar characters in King Of The Hill, and while they were funny, it was just “here’s one extreme, now we’ll move along.”

  15. Duros62 says:
    May 28, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Whoops, sorry.

    http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/003066.html