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The Critic
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Yeah things got a lot different when they gave Jay a new girl in his life with Alice. A third season would've been interesting had it developed into a possible engagement and possible marriage.
She was. The web series ends up giving Jay yet another woman working behind the scenes for him to turn on (I guess Doris finally quit).
It is. Nothing can compare with that episode. I feel like if you had to know what Siskel & Ebert were (at least Siskel since he dropped from the radar quickly), it was that.
They still had their moments in Season 2, maybe not as much as before.
God Save The Queen!
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I know. Not that they couldn'd find someone else to be here otherwise (it worked on The Simpsons I think), but yeah, I always digged Doris Grau's perforances.
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I wouldn't say "anti-Family Guy," more like "Family Guy if Seth MacFarlane wasn't involved" (The Critic was made by Al Jean and Mike Reiss from The Simpsons [it breaks my heart that Al Jean can do this, but can't save The Simpsons from sucking after Mike Scully got his hands on it] and I believe Judd Apatow before he did bromance comedies).
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The opposite is true. If you watch the first three seasons of Family Guy there aren't too many Manatee Jokes. There were an average of 2-3 per episode. When the show came back and Seth took a back seat that is when the Manatee Jokes exploded.
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I don't like either of them. I only like season 1 and 2 of The Critic (though I find season 2 [the FOX episodes; season 1's episodes aired on ABC, judging by the joke on the final episode about people who only watched this show so they don't miss Home Improvement] funnier than season 1) and seasons 3 to 8 of The Simpsons (with some select episodes from seasons 1, 2, and 9 [that Simpsons episode where Homer becomes sanitation commissioner feels like it should have been the final episode due to how everyone just moves away, which is a common final episode premise of a lot of sitcoms]).
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It's pretty much agreed upon that the webisodes are terrible. There's a couple of decent jokes at least.
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Yeah I remember the season finale on ABC with that final bit, as Home Improvement did air afterwards, though interestingly it fell on the same night that saw the series finale of Dinosaurs with it's bleak ending. At least Jean/Reiss got another year out of their puppy (even if the one in the episode didn't come back).
It did.
At least Lovitz got another turn to play Jay again, that's the most that could be said.
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It still got more laughs out of me than The Simpsons has in the last ten years.
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I can't be the only one who thinks this.
The Critic had one of the best intro opening songs in cartoon history. It always relaxed me and put me in a good mood. And when Comedy Central aired it in the middle of the night it usually would calm me. It's one of my favorite cartoon songs and people never really acknowledge it for its wonderfulness.
I actually like this Webisode.
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The theme is by Hans Zimmer who's an amazing composer.
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It certainly was a change of pace from what else was on then. Of course we also got our equivalent to the Simpsons couch gags like who calls Jay in the morning or the end credit stinger with the usher.
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It certainly has a bit of George Gershwin the way it opens up, but again that is the NY influences and setting of the show itself.
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That would explain why the theme drew me in. It was a mellow theme song. Were there any other cartoon theme songs that were mellow like The Critic?
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I often felt The Critic (along with Duckman and Daria) we're "smart shows" that happen to came out at the right place and time to get any recognition, especially now in retrospect to what the 90's were.
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Duckman was another underappreciated show. It did get more seasons though. Duckman and The Critic both had really interesting theme songs.
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That's true.
Reminded of another Critic moment I'm sure we can all agree on...
EDIT: The thing that made that work for me is having seen such films/videos in college that were roughly the same way! Here's one such entry on YouTube!
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