Sit Down, Shut Up
FOX | Release Date: April 19, 2009
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
10
Negative:
7

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser
Season 1 Review: This embarrassment of riches isn't necessarily an embarrassment, but it's not the slam dunk it should be, either. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The jokes that drive the plot revolve more around things like feeding drugs to assistant principal Stuart Proszakian, whose last job was being a prison clown with the Department of Corrections. Read full review
60
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: We pay close attention to Sit Down, Shut Up, an occasionally quite funny but largely anodyne animated comedy beginning Sunday on Fox, because it comes from the pen of Mitchell Hurwitz, creator of “Arrested Development." Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: There are some truly funny moments in Fox's manic, animated comedy Sit Down, Shut Up, a series that requires almost rapt attention to pick up all the jokes and amusing dialogue that's hurled at viewers. If a TV series ever suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder, this is it. Read full review
60
PopMattersMarisa LaScala
Season 1 Review: Sit Down, Shut Up makes jokes about nut-sacks (of the legume variety). Still, it does one thing very right, and very like the beloved Arrested Development, with talented comedians delivering gags at an exhilarating, rapid-fire pace. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 1 Review: It's almost impossible to discern the comedic intelligences behind this drab cartoon about a high school faculty. Read full review
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Season 1 Review: Bateman and Arnett make the most of what they're given, but Sit Down, Shut Up seems to be caught up in actually trying to have a plot and then partly tossing off zany one-liners (with a focus on anatomy). Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: The stereotypes are so predictable that the comedy is too, even if the humor is sometimes dementedly subversive. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Mostly, though, Sit Down is simply off-the-charts silly--a disappointingly blunt instrument from creative collaborators associated with better. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: The show that premieres Sunday night, between "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" in the space formerly occupied by "King of the Hill," is weak--not hopeless, but given the pedigree, heavily disappointing. Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: The disappointing new project from "Arrested Development" creator Mitchell Hurwitz is mainly a reminder of how much the "Arrested" cast--several of whom provide voice work here--added to that show. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: If you want to get away with being offensive on TV, you have to be awfully funny, and Sit Down gets much closer to "awful" than it ever does to "funny." Read full review
30
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Fox is plopping the series into its Sunday-night animation pit starting this weekend, with executives presumably hoping the audience won't notice that it isn't any good and will numbly sit through it. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel Carlson
Season 1 Review: Every joke is telegraphed a mile off or just plain flat, especially the attempts to break the fourth wall. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The series, premiering tomorrow night, is completely hackneyed, a dull dropout from the Adult Swim school of looney 'toons. Read full review
25
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: Sit Down is raw, vulgar and blithely offensive, with so many triple and quadruple entendres for so many sexual acts, I lost count. Read full review
20
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Sit Down, Shut Up is a disaster. Read full review
0
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Staleness, however, ranks as a virtue in Sit Down, Shut Up, for the show's token stabs at topicality are truly appalling. Read full review
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