For those of you who don't know who Williams Street is; they are the main production company on the Adult Swim (late night on Cartoon Network) line-up. I mentioned before that I like watching it, especially when I'm doing my brutal accounting homework. In it's hay day Adult Swim was legendary; it was a whole night of very interesting shows. Anytime I was lucky enough to have the day off, I would celebrate by watching Adult Swim until my eyes literally couldn't stay open. But I went for a long time without watching TV and sort of lost track of the line-up. After reconnecting due to brain-searing amounts of late night homework; I realized that Williams Street is in sort of disrepair. It's kind of like that feeling you get when your best friend gets married and you are just kind of left in the dust. You can hang out with them but they are just not as cool and fun as they used to be. I want to say, "Hey Adult Swim, remember that time when you put that billboard of the Moonanite up in Boston and they thought it was a bomb and you got arrested... Good times, but seriously what the fuck happened to you, man?" I am barely even exaggerating, Williams Street made you feel like a friend; shit they even played little pranks on you. For instance on one of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force DVDs they have an option to "Play All" and then it plays every episode simultaneously on a grid. It leaves you saying, "You fuckers," but you know like you would to a friend.
But now they feel like they are growing up or something having a huge line-up of live action shows. The best one they have is Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! which is hit or miss, and I'd have to say more miss than hit. It's avant garde nonsequitur humor to a nauseating level. Seriously, I've gotten multiple headaches and had to lay down because of watching one of their shows for too long; which is strange because the episodes are only 15 minutes long. Then they have The Mighty Boosh which by saying it's not the worst thing on television would be extremely generous... like dedicating a building to someone because of a generous donation generous. I don't think Williams Street has anything to do with this one, I think it's some BBC show, but they sure as shit bought that show for reasons I'll never know. If you think Tim and Eric is hard to sit through, watching this would be an act of heroism. So after sharing half a good show between the two of them; it blows my mind that they think people would want more shows like this. Their newest show is called Childrens Hospital which seems to ooze bad taste to make a show about a children's hospital; but can you even say it's bad taste if there is almost no way you could think it's funny? I mean, I can't even tell if that's supposed to be the joke, like it's a joke about comedy shows that would be in such poor taste as to make fun of a children's hospital. I can't even tell, because it's not like the jokes just don't hit, and it's some problem with delivery and they can fix it by tweaking it a little; I don't even see where they were going, why anyone would ever think any of that was funny. Marking the recent success of Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell; every boom mic operator that worked on The Daily Show gets a blank check for whatever ill-advised show they want to make. This show stars Rob Corddry (I know he can be funny, I've seen a bunch of shorts that he made on the internet) but I can't tell if he was so excited to have his show that he tried too hard or if he went too far out on a limb and decided he'd get the show canceled so he could be free of a contract or something. I find it almost impossible to believe that he actually thinks this show is gold or has any sort of promise. I will say there are so many hospital shows it's about time they are parodied... or is it? They have made very good hospital dramadies like Scrubs that can be funny as well as letting you connect with the characters producing very emotional moments. Sad thing is, Scrubs is a million times better, and doesn't have nearly the star power this show has. Seriously it has Rob Corddry, Henry Winkler, Michael Cerra, and Ed Helms; I'd watch any show with them in it, except Childrens Hospital. The female cast is atrocious and they tend to get the most screen time, especially in the first season. Except maybe for Tina Fey, they are the most unattractive and unfunny women on any comedy show that I can think of. They seem like they don't even want to be there, with such an male dominated viewing audience, you'd think pretty much any semi-attractive semi-funny girl with as much face-time as they get would kill to be there. Just to make sure I've got all the current ones, I think I need to mention Delocated, far and away the worst show of all of them. The plot is about a guy in the witness relocation program pursued by a stand-up comic hitman... Did I piece that together from watching the show? God NO! You think I'm crazy, I got that from watching a trailer for it. Watching 5 minutes of that show will give you inoperable brain cancer. But if you think that a guy in a ski mask with one of those anonymity voice filters over his voice isn't a stale premise, you may like it... Ha, just kidding, nobody could ever think that show was entertaining.
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