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Quote: Aaron @ July 18 2008, 11:36 AM BSTOh boo hiss. You smell then. Go find some to watch now!
I will then. 
What's the overall opinion of Lab Rats? Is it any good?
Can't get it in Wales.
I liked the first episode enough to get me to watch last night and was hugely disappointed. The frozen guy was very irritating and why he and Minty were wearing similar clothes I couldn't fathom. I was expecting some sort of confusion between the two but there didn't seem to be any.
My wife went to bed halfway through and took the piss a bit that I was still watching. 'I hope yours is better than that' she said. Obviously I reassured her that I was, in fact, a comedy genius, before stealing myself into the kitchen to eat the cheese slices I had originally intended to top off the lasagne that I ultimately couldn't be arsed to make, thus ensuring that I woke half a dozen times during the night tormented by perfectly formed comedy creations.
Quote: Perry Nium @ July 18 2008, 10:11 AM BSTSofa, as a writer with no experience at all when it comes to having sitcoms broadcast I can only humbly offer an educated guess that this is just one of those projects where everything hasn't quite come together as the makers envisaged. It only takes one or two things to completely f**k up a sitcom, and in this case I think it's a problematic script and poor casting.
But what do I know? The Telehraph loves it! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/11/nosplit/bvtv11critic.xml
So who gets the blame there?
It seems to me the LAST person to get the blame would the writers! Even though I don't rate Addison as a 'big' performer, I'm sure he can it's not worked out properly.
Who's produced and directed this?
Oh dear. Adam Tandy knows his beans, but the show looks awful.
Quote: Simon Stratton @ July 18 2008, 12:11 PM BSTWhat's the overall opinion of Lab Rats? Is it any good?
As can be seen by the comments in this thread, the general viewer concensus is: 'No'. This is confirmed by the news it has lost viewers this week, whilst the two shows around it have not: https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/news.php?story=000484
The press are not being very kind either: https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/lab_rats/press/
My personal thoughts are this show is trying hard, but it would actually have turned out better as a kid's sitcom. The OTT acting and general texture of the show certainly has a CBBC feel about it (how is drinking out a large cup funny?)
That said, I'm still watching as there is the odd gem - like the bit last night about the disabled toilet sign.
p.s. What the hell was Robin Ince thinking?!? As can be seen in our guide, Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Mike McShane pops up in a couple of weeks time - that should be interesting.
Thanks Mark!
I guess you need a lot of luck to get a good sitcom produced - if any of the writer, the director or the actors are below par or don't understand each other's style of humour then it fails.
Just made my daughter go and watch josh and drake in the kids room so i could see last nights episode on sky +......she actually hung around to watch this but left after the "big mug" gag (to be fair, Josh and Drake is loads better!)
I got as far as the second time robin ince turned up....WHAT is he doing? Is he actually having a laugh at their expense? A TV version of the spoof sitcoms that turn up in the critique forum? If he is then well done but (and reading his blog i feel he may not be) if he's serious then i can only assume he is prepared to be ripped apart by Ricky Gervais next time they're down the pub! (isn't he supporting Science next year? Ricky might as well borrow the Extras silly wig for him to wear)
Grim - very grim.
Also saw a rather (with hindsight) amusing article with Addison in which he sounded VERY like a 2002 Ricky Gervais but in reverse...having a dig a dark/awkward comedy and saying we need to get back to the laughs...I bet the reporters lapped it up the same as they did when single cam stuff took off - any opportunity for a format scrap. But it looks rather foolish now!
I watched 10/15 minutes and then switched it off.
Most bad sitcoms I've seen do manage to raise a smile now and then, which in my view is never enough. This one didn't even get that. It had me frowning and bemused. It was anti-comedy. How the f**k did this thing ever get produced and commissioned? The characters are crap, the jokes are crap - it's crap.
In the fifteen seconds I watched half way through the second episode in order to form a half arsed opinion I was immediately struck by how much it reminded me of Rentaghost. Not for me, but I wish it luck.
I watched it. Can't remember anything that made me lol. 'The loud guy' reminded me of Alexie Sayle in The Young Ones, only not as funny.
Woah, woah! Now that is damning. Not as funny as Alexei Sayle? Daaaaaaaaamn.
Is that the same as "like a midget, only not as tall" ?
For a crap programme there's been a lot of posting.
Quote: David Chapman @ July 19 2008, 10:54 PM BSTFor a crap programme there's been a lot of posting.
People on here enjoy ripping a show to shreds approximately 5,000 times more than they like celebrating something they like.