- Network: MTV - Music Television
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 27, 2011
- Season #: 1 , 2
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60While it has contemporary music, appliances and vernacular, it has the soul of an old-school sitcom where the issues are basic: boys and girls, grownups and jobs, rogue waves and colorful surfboards.
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50As for Good Vibes, think of it as another one of those ho-hum waves you can safely let roll by.
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30Aggressively dumb, sex-obsessed and occasionally misogynistic.
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60It's completely stupid, although somehow, on top of it all, it manages to pull out a laugh or two if you're willing to channel your inner juvenile.
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50A more conventionally crass buddy comedy about a Jersey whale-out-of-water (voiced by Book of Mormon star Josh Gad) who moves to the California beachfront with his buxom mom (Debi Mazar),
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60None of the characters--including the usual smart hot girl, mean hot girl and mean hot guy--range beyond well-established types, and the show would have to stand on a chair to aim any lower. But it is mostly sweet-tempered and oddly moral, and, as I write these words, I do not hate it.
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75The cartoon is often laugh-out-loud funny, pulling off ridiculously zany sight gags, such as when Mondo decides to impress a girl by surfing and, instead, inadvertently beheads a bird, among other things.
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75The writing is juvenile, hormonal and often pretty dang funny.
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63Good Vibes delivered some good laughs in between crotch punches and penis punch lines.