Titus: Season 1

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Fox | Season Premiere Date: March 20, 2000

Starring: Cynthia Watros, Zack Ward, David Shatraw

Summary: This half-hour comedy chronicles the hilarious world of Christopher Titus and his totally messed-up poor white trash family. Between his drunken father, his dimwitted brother, and his goody-goody best friend, it's amazing Titus is alive, let alone engaged to a "normal" girl.

Titus adapted Christopher Titus' stand-up routine in a novelThis half-hour comedy chronicles the hilarious world of Christopher Titus and his totally messed-up poor white trash family. Between his drunken father, his dimwitted brother, and his goody-goody best friend, it's amazing Titus is alive, let alone engaged to a "normal" girl.

Titus adapted Christopher Titus' stand-up routine in a novel way: each episode is narrated by Titus from a black & white "Neutral Space," from which he comments on the events as they unfold, punctuated by short, surreal flashbacks to his childhood and adolescence. The hilarious interplay between these three levels of narrative is sometimes amazingly complex and even contradictory, highlighting the exceedingly black nature of the show's humor. Alas, the Fox network lived up to its history of commissioning innovative television and then sabotaging it; the third and blackest season was made particularly incoherent by showing the sequences out of logical order.

Titus never made it to syndication, and is currently unavailable — a buried gem — until its release on DVD in September 2005.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E9. Episode Eleven
Air Date: May 22, 2000
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S1:E8. Intervention
Air Date: May 15, 2000
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S1:E7. Mom's Not Nuts
Air Date: May 8, 2000

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Joanne Ostrow

Dec 2, 2019

Clearly, this is not a cookie-cutter network offering; it's bold, at times difficult, and aiming for greatness. [20 March 2000]

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times

Charlie McCollum

Dec 2, 2019

A dark but wildly funny comedy. [19 March 2000]

Robert P. Laurence

Dec 2, 2019

Titus deftly carries off the delicate trick of creating comedy out of a background of tragedy and chaos, and for that it deserves a look. [20 March 2000, p.E-7]

James Poniewozik

Jun 28, 2013

Making audiences feel weird merely for laughing is a sign of something quite wrong, or quite right; here it's mostly the latter. Read full review

Phil Rosenthal

Dec 2, 2019

It's well-written enough, even stylish at times. It's just not very funny. [20 March 2000, p.45]

Rob Owen

Dec 2, 2019

With its emphasis on dysfunction, Titus allows for dramatic moments that actually ring true. But they're few and far between in this show punctuated by flashbacks that interrupt the narrative flow. Titus suffers from a TV version of Attention Deficit Disorder, similar to the tangents on Fox's "Family Guy" but a lot less funny. [20 March 2000]

Jonathan Storm

Dec 2, 2019

Titus' shtick might be funny in a nightclub, but it's a droning, sour note of meanness on TV, so much so that Fox decided to move the pilot, where we get an intimate introduction to Titus and his family, to the show's second week. [20 March 2000, p.D05]

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Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: November 14, 2001
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 3, 2000
Season 1

64
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 20, 2000
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  S1:E9. Episode Eleven
  Air Date: May 22, 2000
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  S1:E8. Intervention
  Air Date: May 15, 2000
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  S1:E7. Mom's Not Nuts
  Air Date: May 8, 2000
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  S1:E6. Red Asphalt
  Air Date: May 1, 2000
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  S1:E5. Titus Integritous
  Air Date: April 17, 2000
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  S1:E4. The Breakup
  Air Date: April 10, 2000
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  S1:E3. Dave Moves Out
  Air Date: April 3, 2000
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  S1:E2. Dad's Dead
  Air Date: March 27, 2000
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  S1:E1. Sex With Pudding
  Air Date: March 20, 2000