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ABC's The Neighbors is this season's awful sitcom, the one that defies all kind of sense.
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The Neighbors is the silliest show you will watch all year.
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And that's me, faster than Usain Bolt, changing the channel.
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There's something winning about the absurdity and the poker-faced formality of the aliens.... The only problem is there's no internal logic to the premise. [28 Sep 2012, p.64]
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Created by Dan Fogelman it is enjoyable if not impressive--not bad, and almost good.
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In short, The Neighbors closely resembles the old Conehead sketches from the early days of Saturday Night Live.
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Droll and amusing though the jokes and characters in the first episode often are, The Neighbors has all its chips riding on what is essentially a one-line gag.
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The pilot for ABC's extraterrestrial silly-fest feels half-baked, and parts of it just sort of lie there, but this shouldn't be a deal breaker.
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While The Neighbors sketches something genuinely creative--and truly weird--its comedy doesn't really come together.
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The first two episodes of The Neighbors actually made me laugh more than once--and without the aid of mood-altering substances.
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In its first two episodes The Neighbors is an enjoyable, broad comedy that encourages co-viewing among parents and their children.
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Unfortunately, the pilot doesn't suggest that there is anything more interesting at work here than a weak attempt to wring laughs out of aliens who are buffoons.
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The Neighbors revives an old storyline used in everything from the the "SNL" Coneheads sketch to "Third Rock from the Sun." It just doesn't do it as well.
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The show seems to exhaust its small comedic possibilities with the first episode, not to mention viewer interest.
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This season, ABC has Neighbors, one of the least funny things to air on television since the last Hitler documentary on History.
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It's "3rd Rock From the Sun" without the wit or the understatement.
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For a bizarre comedy with the potential for some really pointed wackiness, this alien vehicle doesn't get off the ground.
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Neighbors settles for charmless performances, stupid jokes and sight gags that might be funny once, such as naming all of the aliens after famous sports figures (like Larry Bird and Jackie Joyner-Kersee), but with repetition grows fretfully stale.
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This latest aliens-meet-earthlings sitcom is just too dopily executed for any long-term stay on this planet.
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Nothing in The Neighbors rises above mediocrity, and too much falls beneath it.
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It's somewhat offbeat, yes, but all played at such a cartoonish level as to feel like a distant throwback, a la "My Favorite Martian" or "I Dream of Jeannie," since there's no one akin to Mork or ALF to enliven the festivities.
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The Neighbors means you no harm; it is merely offering buoyant, slightly creepy entertainment for anybody who doesn't take sci-fi or satire too seriously.
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If you value your time, you'll change the channel after "Modern Family."
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 46 out of 78
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Mixed: 11 out of 78
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Negative: 21 out of 78
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Jan 5, 2013
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Oct 28, 2012
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Jan 3, 2013