In Case Of Emergency

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

You get the feeling that if this show is given enough time to find its strengths and understand its characters, it could be around for quite some time.

People WeeklyTom Gliatto

It's a good cast, and Arquette's peculiar charm is always welcome. But I'm tired of comedies about the desperate infantilism of panicked adults. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

"In Case of Emergency" is uneven, more antic than witty.

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

A haphazard farce that fails to find a consistently funny groove.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

In Case of Emergency puts these characters through sadistic slapstick.

USA TodayRobert Bianco

It's kind of like Friends if every character had been outlandishly contrived, every situation had been stripped of every humorous moment, and every attempt at sentiment had felt cheap and unearned.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

Its writers are clearly addicted to the tired conceit of giving us three jokes per script page, no matter how played-out the jokes, no matter how predictable the pratfalls.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

Lori Loughlin co-stars as an emergency room doctor who's dragged into their lives in ways so sitcommy they make robbing Mick Jagger look like a halfway decent idea.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

Germann [is] the only good thing in the show.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

Where The Class is warm and charming, Emergency is crude and overdrawn.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

It becomes clear rather quickly that there's nothing funny going on here and, by the second episode, the show seems out of ideas for its paper-thin premise.

SalonHeather Havrilesky

There doesn't seem to be a point to the madness here, and that gives this one the expected life span (and the charms) of a housefly.

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

It’s not well-cast.... It’s not well-written.

VarietyBrian Lowry

Somewhere trapped inside this shrill, irritating comedy is a better show that emerges only in fleeting glimpses, amid the manic tone and Catskills-comic humor.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

A peculiar piece of work that's a whole lot creepier than it means to be.

Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield

[It] instantly displays a commitment to slapstick in direct proportion to a state of comedic denial.

Newark Star-Ledger

There's a desperation to the whole affair, a sense that if the creators just keep the pace fast and the jokes tasteless, everything will be fine.

NewsdayVerne Gay

"Emergency" is sodden, forbidding, a waste of 22 good minutes.

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

"The Class," not a terrific sitcom by any stretch of the imagination, trades in this quarterlife crisis nonsense each week far better than "Emergency" does.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

Never thought a TV comedy would leave me wistful for Silverman's NBC bomb "The Single Guy," but "In Case of Emergency" manages to do just that.

TV GuideMatt Roush

[A] shapeless, pointlessly annoying comedy.

Washington PostTom Shales

Dreadful... unwatchable... There's nothing unlikable about the rest of the cast [other than Arquette], but their attempts at farce make you just want to get away from them.

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum

[It] may be the worst, most annoying comedy to turn up on the networks this season.