The Bill Engvall Show: Season 1
  • Network: TBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 17, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
Metascore
35 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 4 out of 7
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    40
    This feels like the kind of show ABC used to churn out in its sleep.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    40
    There's a sort of comfort that comes from knowing you won't run into anything disruptively unconventional in a sitcom, and that would make Engvall as pleasantly lumpy as a dying couch.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    40
    The show isn't particularly funny.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    You know a show needs work when its show-stopper is the mime.
  5. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    30
    There is a sense throughout that Mr. Engvall is betraying his core audience, and the whole blue-collar comedy ethos in particular, trading in one category of cliché for another.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    This is decidedly slim and rarely funny fare.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    The wacky situations and jokes on The Bill Engvall Show seem almost willfully dated.

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User Score
3.1 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 19 out of 24
  1. BobS.
    0
    Very unfunny.
  2. ToddM.
    1
    This is one of a few sitcoms I have seen that have managed to make me angry that anyone would think I would find the show the least bit funny or enjoyable in any way. Are these people even trying?… Full Review »
  3. LaLaR.
    1
    This is a GENERIC still standing. Not funny at all, really dumb jokes....who wrote this a 10 yr old. really dumb show, show more family guy instead.
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