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Sit Down, Shut Up: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 19, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Metascore
42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.1 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 67 Ratings

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  • Summary: Several of Arrested Development's cast give voices to the characters of Mitch Hurwitz's animated high school comedy.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Animation

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    63
    This embarrassment of riches isn't necessarily an embarrassment, but it's not the slam dunk it should be, either.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    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.
  3. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    37
    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."

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 41
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 41
  3. Negative: 15 out of 41
  1. liptap
    10
    Non-Stop fun occurs in laugh-filled take on high school. The Arrested Development cast lend their voices brilliantly whilst other voice talent such as Kristin Chenoweth & Kenan Thompson are perfectly fit for it.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. andret
    5
    It was barely funny. They tried to put too much, with too many and you get a very diffuse and unfocus result.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. MichaelP
    3
    It could be good, like an 7 or 8, however its missing something. But I can't figure out what...
    • 1 of 1 users said yes

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