Sit Down, Shut Up

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 19, 2009
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
41

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
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Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    37
    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."
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    30
    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.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Carlson
    30
    Every joke is telegraphed a mile off or just plain flat, especially the attempts to break the fourth wall.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    The series, premiering tomorrow night, is completely hackneyed, a dull dropout from the Adult Swim school of looney 'toons.
  6. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    25
    Sit Down is raw, vulgar and blithely offensive, with so many triple and quadruple entendres for so many sexual acts, I lost count.
  7. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    20
    Sit Down, Shut Up is a disaster.
  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    0
    Staleness, however, ranks as a virtue in Sit Down, Shut Up, for the show's token stabs at topicality are truly appalling.

Awards & Rankings

99
#99 Best TV Season of 2009
28
#28 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009
70
#70 Most Shared TV Season of 2009

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User Score
5.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 70 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 70
  3. Negative: 28 out of 70
  1. GagaForGhibli
    May 29, 2012
    4
    Not What You Would Want In A Animated Show..
    Sit Down Shut Up Tries So Hard To Be Funny, But Sadly Is Not...
    I Do Like The Animation Style..    Not What You Would Want In A Animated Show..
    Sit Down Shut Up Tries So Hard To Be Funny, But Sadly Is Not...
    I Do Like The Animation Style..
    I Think In Bits This Show Is Ok...    … Full Review »
  2. liptap
    Oct 22, 2010
    10
    Non-Stop fun occurs in laugh-filled take on high school. The Arrested Development cast lend their voices brilliantly whilst other voice talentNon-Stop fun occurs in laugh-filled take on high school. The Arrested Development cast lend their voices brilliantly whilst other voice talent such as Kristin Chenoweth & Kenan Thompson are perfectly fit for it.… Full Review »
  3. MichaelP
    Jul 3, 2009
    3
    It could be good, like an 7 or 8, however its missing something. But I can't figure out what...
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