****What a fun show! Such a pity it's only nine episodes long. I can see why it didn't quite catch with audiences though. One critic noted that "It was too smart. Too funny. Too weird. So of course it failed." I can't say that he's wrong. In that sense, it's sort of like Arrested Development. You either get it or you don't; it's either hilarious or just sort of dumb--and it won't take long to discover into which camp you fall. Just take a gander at these quotes:
"But someone's gotta stand the heat and stay in the kitchen. Someone's gotta don the oven mitts of all that's right and strangle the red-hot throat of all that's wrong. This is that someone's story." (Pilot)That's all I've got. If you think these quotes are or could be funny (especially when delivered by a delicious earnest Partick Warburton in a big blue suit), if you appreciate puns, literalized idioms, and tortured, overextended metaphors (and don't mind a bit of innuendo), then this may be the show for you. I certainly enjoyed it.
"Armless bandit! Empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee! It has its price and that price has been paid!" (Pilot)
"Gravity... is a harsh mistress." (Pilot)
"Don't be an Adolf Quitler!" (The Terror)
"I'll fold you into my wallet and spend you on a whore!" (The Terror)
"When you get in bed with evil incarnate, it always steals the covers." (The Terror)
"We have a fiendishly clever commode. It's already taken the bathtub as an ally in its porcelain war against us." (Arthur, Interrupted)
"You're on a first-name basis with lucidity, little friend. I have to call it Mister Lucidity... and that's no good in a pinch." (Couples)
"This is nothing more than a salty slab of justice jerky — cut and dried!" (The Tick vs. Justice)
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