- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 17, 2013
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Yes, offensive, but the second episode loses that element, which suggests Fox got the message. Not surprisingly, it's the better of the two.
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While there’s the potential for a nice, relatable human situation here, almost all the dialogue feels like setups for punch lines. Too often this leaves the actors, even skilled veterans Riegert and Mull, stranded.
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Some jokes are just tired and bad.
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Dads just isn't very funny. A cast this good--Martin Mull and Peter Riegert are loser fathers to business partners played by Giovanni Ribisi and Philly's Seth Green--deserves more than the raucous studio laughter that warmed-over bigotry generates. And, honestly, there are glimpses at times of a better show.
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There are some funny lines, but not nearly enough. Material that is meant to be anarchic mostly comes across as obvious and boorish.
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Everyone associated with this show--with the exception of MacFarlane--deserves better.
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If the two whiny sons and their equally unlikable fathers aren't enough to push you away, the boorish childishness of the show's obvious efforts to offend should do the trick.
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Even with such dreadful scripts and the phony noise of canned laughter, the four reasons to kind of watch maybe a little of Dads are the core actors. You don't have to watch more than a couple of minutes to know they deserve much, much better, and so do we.
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The pilot has come under fire for racist jokes, but at Cheap Laffs there's not enough of a creative sensibility for that to matter. [23 Sep 2013]
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The writing on Dads is so straight-up horrendous that one wouldn’t be surprised to see it in the middle of a “Family Guy” episode as an attempt by MacFarlane to satirize bad sitcom writing.
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With such a superior comedy cast, it's deplorable how far this badly written and directed show has dragged them down.
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The show isn’t exactly “reprehensible,” but it is definitely “tired,” “forced,” “predictable,” “lazy”--choose your own critical adjective that means “bad.”
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The truth is, Dads merits condemnation less for such outrages [low-brow and racially questionable gags] than because the tone is so broad and slapdash.
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Dads is just a senseless pounding of sensibilities, a beat-down without any saving graces.
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Friends Warner (Giovanni Ribisi) and Eli (Seth Green) have clueless dads (Martin Mull and Peter Riegert) who might be racist, or maybe it's just the show. [20/27 Sep 2013, p.141]
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It's the sitcom equivalent of "Pull my finger": crude, outdated, and immodestly proposed.
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It's the kind of sitcom writing that gives sitcoms a bad name.
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Creatively speaking, Dads comes off as if it were a much-resented homework assignment for all involved.
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Talking any more about Dads is more wearying than actually watching it. Which was torture.
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Just don't watch it. For real.
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A crass generation-gap sitcom with the wit if not the intelligence of an elementary-school flatulence contest.
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Dads insults all viewers with its lowest common denominator humor. The sitcom, created by Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, offers a greatest hits list of time-worn, tired gags.
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Dads is the new season at its worst: dated, cheaply provocative, and laboriously unfunny.
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Dads would love to be as offensive as its promos promise (tweaking critics who took an early stand against it), but what's most off-putting about the show is how lazy and stale it all is.
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Dads is so unfunny that we have plenty of time to contemplate how distasteful the show really is.
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Dads is the worst new comedy in quite some time.
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At all times, Dads feels assembled by people who have sniveling contempt for their audience, figuring that this is just the stupid bullshit people who watch network TV might want. They may be proved right by that, but the American public rarely embraces shows as transparently awful as Dads.
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What’s galling is the utter absence of originality, spirit or even new jokes. ... The poor actors look like they’re serving mandatory sentences for the creators’ crimes of laziness.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 105
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Mixed: 9 out of 105
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Negative: 63 out of 105
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