- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 17, 2012
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Cute, initially, the bull-in-a-china-shop premise wears a little thin until you realize there are others in the family capable of embarrassing dad, too.
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All in all, Skip, an unkempt ball of puppyish energy to whom the writers feed a wealth of good material, is by far the best thing about this show. Jenna Elfman is all right as first lady and the rest of the cast hovers around the edges not making much of an impression.
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The broad comedy in 1600 Penn derives from familiar sitcom clichés being magnified by the Oval Office fishbowl. It's a gimmick that may have trouble holding up to a second term, though the cast is certainly game.
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1600 Penn has charm and some funny riffs, but it's a 2013 sitcom that at times seems like it was written in 1983.
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1600 Penn comes off as a fairly formulaic yet occasionally bright return to an old premise.
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When Skip is used more as a garnish and not the focus, his character is less annoying and more amusing.
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Your enjoyment of the show will hinge on how much you can stomach the antics of the First Screw-Up.
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A sitcom that has moved from agreeably silly to disagreeably dumb, a regression no network should want to see.
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It's not that these are shoddily crafted personalities, it's that their predicaments have been done to death, and frankly, executed with much more thoughtfulness on other shows.
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As funny as 1600 Penn can be, after a while the laughs grow fewer and further between. And the misfires are more frequent and painful.
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Problem is in 1600 Penn they are shooting for "Animal House" in the White House but too often end up with nobody home.
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The set-in-the-White House comedy starts off more annoying than funny in its Monday debut, overwhelmed by a single character, first son Skip (Josh Gad), a perennial college student and first-class screwup. Over the next couple of episodes the show becomes a little less grating and, occasionally, mildly amusing.
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The series doesn't generate nearly enough highlights to merit a filibuster-proof yea vote, much less a ticker-tape parade.
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There's nothing to get outraged about, unless you want to rail against substandard comedy.
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This is a very good cast laboring through terribly weak material.
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[Josh Gad's] an adroit actor, and his breathy, singsongy way with Skip feels original, until it feels tiring--as that there's just a lot of him here. He obscures the view, or becomes it, and he can make the rest of the show seem sort of beside the point.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 52
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Mixed: 10 out of 52
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Negative: 21 out of 52
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Dec 18, 2012
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