Rob

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 12, 2012
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
29

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 25
  3. Negative: 16 out of 25
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Critic Reviews

  1. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Aug 27, 2012
    37
    Rob is a scream, and not in a good way.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Jan 17, 2012
    40
    Despite the general mediocrity of the show's dialogue, these are potentially endearing comic characters played by (mostly) excellent comic actors.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Emily Yahr
    Jan 17, 2012
    10
    [An] offensively unfunny series.
  5. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Jan 13, 2012
    38
    [A] dull new sitcom. [23 Jan 2012, p.40]
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  6. Zap2it (Inside the Box)
    Reviewed by: David Eckstein
    Jan 13, 2012
    30
    There's no on-screen chemistry between Schneider and Bassols, the jokes are weak and the acting is forgettable.
  7. Denver Post
    Reviewed by: Joanne Ostrow
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    Rob! is genuinely offensive.
  8. Time
    Reviewed by: James Poniewozik
    Jan 12, 2012
    10
    Rob! is playing at a meta game in which it transmutes lame jokes about Hispanics into clever commentary by putting them in Rob's mouth, but that kind of strategy only works when the sitcom's world outside the lead character is not equally lame.
  9. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    Rob feels as if it were written by people who aren't on a first-name basis with comedy.
  10. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Jan 12, 2012
    42
    It's lame and tin-eared.
  11. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Jan 12, 2012
    50
    CBS has churned out yet another lowest-common-denominator sitcom.
  12. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Jan 12, 2012
    20
    The main problem with Rob is that instead of finding fresh insight and perspective from his inside position, Schneider just slams a piñata full of familiar and predictable ethnic jokes.
  13. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Jan 12, 2012
    25
    Rob is a slapstick shtick-fest that strains to be "Modern Family," but isn't even close.
  14. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Jan 12, 2012
    25
    There's hardly a moment or performance in Rob that doesn't reek of the leftover and the second-rate.
  15. RedEye
    Reviewed by: Curt Wagner
    Jan 11, 2012
    0
    Rob is clumsy and uncomfortable, not to mention completely devoid of chemistry among its actors or subtlety in their delivery of "jokes."
  16. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Jan 11, 2012
    60
    The truth is that Rob is a rather funny sitcom about the cultural collisions that occur every day in an increasingly blended America.
  17. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Jan 11, 2012
    10
    Work It managed to claim Worst Comedy of the Year, but surely CBS' Rob comes in a close second.
  18. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jan 11, 2012
    40
    Rob might be a lot things, but "smart" isn't an adjective apt to crop up frequently in connection with it.
  19. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Jan 11, 2012
    25
    Yup, pretty awful.
  20. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Jan 11, 2012
    10
    Nothing Mr. Schneider has done over the intervening years, however--not even licking his own crotch in "The Animal"--has been quite as degrading, for him or his audience, as Rob, his new autobiographical sitcom on CBS.
  21. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Jan 11, 2012
    10
    Dull, dimwitted and offensive.
  22. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Lori Rackl
    Jan 11, 2012
    50
    The only times Rob flirts with funniness are when the stereotypes get turned around
  23. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    Jan 11, 2012
    30
    This isn't the worst sitcom of the season--if you've seen ABC's "Work It" and survived, you can attest to this--but it's far from the best.
  24. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    Jan 10, 2012
    50
    The humor in Rob is broad, occasionally rollicking, not very clever or sophisticated, but some of it works well enough to keep the show going.
  25. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jan 9, 2012
    50
    This needs to evolve into a smarter, less formulaic show before it's worth watching.
  26. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Jan 3, 2012
    50
    There are lots of swings and misses amid the direct hits. And that's pretty much the way it is with Rob.

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User Score
3.4

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 39
  3. Negative: 24 out of 39
  1. Beau
    Jan 13, 2012
    0
    This is a perfect example of why the Thursday 8:30 timeslot belongs to Parks and Recreation. Not as bad as the House of Lies pilot but farThis is a perfect example of why the Thursday 8:30 timeslot belongs to Parks and Recreation. Not as bad as the House of Lies pilot but far below Rob Schneider standards. Come on, CBS.… Full Review »
  2. Brilliana
    Feb 5, 2012
    0
    This is the worst thing ever. Like CBS really needs to get better at making comedies. This is an unfunny piece of worthless trash that needsThis is the worst thing ever. Like CBS really needs to get better at making comedies. This is an unfunny piece of worthless trash that needs to end really really soon. Thank you.… Full Review »
  3. RonaldOVOXO
    Feb 3, 2012
    2
    This is why CBS is wack now a days. They let bad shows like this one into the world. I wanted to like Rob but man i hated it so much that iThis is why CBS is wack now a days. They let bad shows like this one into the world. I wanted to like Rob but man i hated it so much that i might never watch CBS again (Except: CSI Miami, Criminal Minds, & The Big Bang Theory). DONT WATCH THIS SHOW… Full Review »
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