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- 2009
- TV-14
- FOX
- 2009
- TV-14
- FOX
Summary Developed for American television by Mitchell Hurwitz (Arrested Development), Sit Down, Shut Up is based on the Australian show of the same name. Featuring animated characters against non-animated backgrounds, the show focuses on the lives and quirks of nine staffers of small town Knob Haven High School in Florida.
- 2009
- TV-14
- FOX
- 2009
- TV-14
- FOX
Sit Down, Shut Up
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 19, 2009
41
6.5
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Summary Developed for American television by Mitchell Hurwitz (Arrested Development), Sit Down, Shut Up is based on the Australian show of the same name. Featuring animated characters against non-animated backgrounds, the show focuses on the lives and quirks of nine staffers of small town Knob Haven High School in Florida.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
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6% Positive
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56% Mixed
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14 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
41
6% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
39% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
This embarrassment of riches isn't necessarily an embarrassment, but it's not the slam dunk it should be, either.
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."
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).
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.
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."
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.
Staleness, however, ranks as a virtue in Sit Down, Shut Up, for the show's token stabs at topicality are truly appalling.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 User Ratings
6.5
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Production Company:
- Adelaide Productions
- The Hurwitz Company
- Josh Weinstein Productions
- The Tannenbaum Company
- 20th Century Fox Television
- Granada International
- Sony Pictures Television
- Tantamount
Initial Release Date: Apr 19, 2009
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
