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  • Comedy Central
  • Oct 4, 2006
  • Comedy Central
  • Oct 4, 2006
Freak Show

Summary Freak Show is the brain-child of David Cross (Arrested Development and Mr. Show) and H. Jon Benjamin (Home Movies) and revolves around a group of people who are, well... freaks. They simultaneously perform as a side-show attraction and as superheroes that are (secretly) employed by the Pentagon to undertake low-priority missions.

  • Comedy Central
  • Oct 4, 2006
  • Comedy Central
  • Oct 4, 2006
Freak Show
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 4, 2006
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
67
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Summary Freak Show is the brain-child of David Cross (Arrested Development and Mr. Show) and H. Jon Benjamin (Home Movies) and revolves around a group of people who are, well... freaks. They simultaneously perform as a side-show attraction and as superheroes that are (secretly) employed by the Pentagon to undertake low-priority missions.

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Episode 1 • Oct 4, 2006 • 22 m
Pilot
Freak Squad is sent to the island of Jarbala to find delicious Perry nuts, the President's favorite nuts.
Episode 2 • Oct 11, 2006 • 22 m
Glaucoma
On their way to accept an award for their glaucoma research, The Hartsdales receive a veiled threat from Freak Mart, forcing a concerned Freak Squad to outsource a Presidential mission and rush to Vienna to protect them.
Episode 3 • Oct 18, 2006 • 22 m
Git to Gitten'
Despite her outspoken liberal stance, the Bearded Clam finds herself falling for the hyper-patriotic country music superstar Toby Tritt Greenwood
Episode 4 • Oct 26, 2006 • 22 m
Separate But Equal
Freak Squad is sent to New York City to scope out an apartment for the President's friend's cat
Episode 5 • Nov 2, 2006 • 22 m
Elections
Freak Squad beams up to New Hampshire to take over a mission from Log Cabin Republican, who has become distracted while running a Senate campaign
Episode 6 • 22 m
Mohel-Me-Not: Part 1
The Hartsdales choose to circumcise Primi while performing in a heavily Jewish community, but does the local rabbi have an ulterior motive? (Pt 1 of 2)
Episode 7 • Nov 16, 2006 • 22 m
Mohel-Me-Not: Part 2
Having used Primi's foreskin to summon Moshiach, the Jewish messiah, Pat Robertson and the President plan to fight back with their own secret weapon, and the Freak Squad must come to Primi's rescue. (Part 2 of 2)

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
67
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20% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
67
80% Positive
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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80
Alternately goofy and smartly satirical, ["Freak Show"] may be the best companion to "South Park" Comedy Central has come up with yet.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
80
Outrageous, bizarre, effortlessly hip and unsubtle in magically edgy ways.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
70
There’s plenty to laugh at here.
By Virginia Heffernan FULL REVIEW
67
This superhero spoof's odd humor manages to distract from the shudders... but just barely. [6 Oct 2006, p.63]
By Whitney Pastorek FULL REVIEW
40
"Freak Show" aspires to be both infantile and yet politically and socially astute, and it falls short on the latter. The satire doesn't quite hit its marks.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW

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