- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 3, 2007
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"The Knights of Prosperity" is knee-slappingly and side-splittingly funny stuff, or as close to that as TV gets these days.
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The best new comedy of the season.
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The show’s ensemble cast is rock-solid, and makes you instantly root for this goofball gang.
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It bursts with humor thanks to a solid cast, smart writing and a quick pace.
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To embrace "Knights," you have to have a taste for the kind of comedy that teases because it loves.
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You will regret tuning in even a minute late for the premiere.
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The show is filled with Lettermanesque non sequiturs and '70s pop-culture arcana... but it has heart too.
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Of the large, nicely peppered cast, I especially like Vergara, who has some of the vamping yumminess of a Catherine Zeta-Jones. [8 Jan 2007, p.35]
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As in many filmed comedies, at times Knights seems content to substitute movement and scenery for comedy, but the brighter moments compensate for those times when the show goes slack.
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"The Knights of Prosperity" has delivered this season where so many new shows have failed: It introduces a serialized story line with characters and a plot that are different and likable enough to warrant a return visit.
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While every single actor is perfect and perfectly funny in his role, every time Richardson opens his mouth, I nearly spit my Weight Watchers fat-free snack food all over my desk. The guy is brilliant.
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It has a goofy charm and outsize ridiculousness that wins you over -- even if you'd prefer more snark.
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The best new network sitcom this season.
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You'll root for these inept amateurs, but sustaining this premise won't be easy.
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The break-in may never take place, but the characters are appealing, and the writing is spirited enough to carry the sitcom at least for a while.
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Its raffish ethnic and class humor takes no prisoners.
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It's a cute show, but the premise is so paper-thin you have to wonder how the writers will sustain "Knights" for a full season, let alone many years, if successful.
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One of the better -- if stranger -- comedy debuts the networks have put out this year.
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"Knights" is without question the funniest comedy ABC has on its roster. But look at the network's other options, and you'll understand that's not what you'd call a hard-won honor.
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There's plenty of that low-key humor that characterized Ed, and the show can be hilarious when the crew gets involved in Keystone Kops capers, but it drags in the middle ground.
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Unfortunately, there's an excess of kooky cuteness here.
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It was [creators Burnett and Beckerman's] style on "Ed" to be too cutesy by half, and so here
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Despite the presence of a capable cast of bumbling Robin Hood wanna-bes... "The Knights of Prosperity" quickly devolves into tepid, overwrought whimsy and struggles to sustain its premise.
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Their efforts to better their lives through grand larceny feel forced, not to mention doomed.
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[Knights] has its moments in a "Honeymooners" sort of way but, especially after viewing the second episode, feels destined to run out of gas long before its central sextet gets any satisfaction.
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These characters operate with unrelenting silliness. Only the Marx Brothers, in their prime, could have pulled off this caper.
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Yes, another comedy starts out with mild promise and quickly tanks.
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A sweet, gentle, good-natured trifle that is (nonetheless) surprisingly airless and only rarely funny, if that.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 35
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Mixed: 2 out of 35
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Negative: 5 out of 35
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HeatherC.Aug 14, 2007
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marjoriemMar 25, 2007very funny, which is refreshing these days! i love the concept, and donal logue is great. i'm hoping they give it a chance
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malgMar 7, 2007