Sit Down, Shut Up

Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser

This embarrassment of riches isn't necessarily an embarrassment, but it's not the slam dunk it should be, either.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

There are some truly funny moments in Fox's manic, animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up, a series that requires almost rapt attention to pick up all the jokes and amusing dialogue that's hurled at viewers. If a TV series ever suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder, this is it.

PopMattersMarisa LaScala

Sit Down, Shut Up makes jokes about nut-sacks (of the legume variety). Still, it does one thing very right, and very like the beloved Arrested Development, with talented comedians delivering gags at an exhilarating, rapid-fire pace.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

The jokes that drive the plot revolve more around things like feeding drugs to assistant principal Stuart Proszakian, whose last job was being a prison clown with the Department of Corrections.

The New York TimesGinia Bellafante

We pay close attention to Sit Down, Shut Up, an occasionally quite funny but largely anodyne animated comedy beginning Sunday on Fox, because it comes from the pen of Mitchell Hurwitz, creator of “Arrested Development."

Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker

It's almost impossible to discern the comedic intelligences behind this drab cartoon about a high school faculty.

San Francisco Chronicle

Bateman and Arnett make the most of what they're given, but Sit Down, Shut Up seems to be caught up in actually trying to have a plot and then partly tossing off zany one-liners (with a focus on anatomy).

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

The stereotypes are so predictable that the comedy is too, even if the humor is sometimes dementedly subversive.

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

The show that premieres Sunday night, between "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" in the space formerly occupied by "King of the Hill," is weak--not hopeless, but given the pedigree, heavily disappointing.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

The disappointing new project from "Arrested Development" creator Mitchell Hurwitz is mainly a reminder of how much the "Arrested" cast--several of whom provide voice work here--added to that show.

VarietyBrian Lowry

Mostly, though, Sit Down is simply off-the-charts silly--a disappointingly blunt instrument from creative collaborators associated with better.

USA TodayRobert Bianco

If you want to get away with being offensive on TV, you have to be awfully funny, and Sit Down gets much closer to "awful" than it ever does to "funny."

Washington PostTom Shales

Fox is plopping the series into its Sunday-night animation pit starting this weekend, with executives presumably hoping the audience won't notice that it isn't any good and will numbly sit through it.

Hollywood ReporterDaniel Carlson

Every joke is telegraphed a mile off or just plain flat, especially the attempts to break the fourth wall.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

The series, premiering tomorrow night, is completely hackneyed, a dull dropout from the Adult Swim school of looney 'toons.

NewsdayVerne Gay

Sit Down is raw, vulgar and blithely offensive, with so many triple and quadruple entendres for so many sexual acts, I lost count.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Sit Down, Shut Up is a disaster.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

Staleness, however, ranks as a virtue in Sit Down, Shut Up, for the show's token stabs at topicality are truly appalling.