Sit Down Shut Up, the doomed-from-the-get-go animated sitcom from Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz, lasted all of four episodes last spring before Fox yanked it from the schedule. (Its replacement, King of the Hill reruns, was admittedly not as much of an insult as, say, American Dad reruns.)
But Fox, apparently deciding it hadn't dug the tip of his boot quite deep enough into Hurwitz's kidneys, has now inexplicably but happily brought the show back to burn off its remaining 8 or so episodes.
On Saturday nights. At midnight. With next to nothing resembling promotion or publicity. Thanks, Fox!
My local Fox affiliate doesn't even carry the new episodes. Thankfully, Hulu does, starting with an episode that riffs hilariously (and in a deeply wrong fashion) on costar Will Arnett's all-too-brief gig as the voice of KITT 2.0 in the horrible revival of Knight Rider. The show's still crammed with lighting-paced gags of every stripe, still gleefully inventive in its wordplay and its willingness to shatter the fourth wall, and still filled with loathsome characters in whose misery one can easily delight.
Do yourself a favor -- watch it now, so that when Sit Down Shut Up is a beloved cult classic on Adult Swim a few years from now, and everyone's talking about how it just never found the audience it deserved, you'll have the necessary cred to nod knowingly and say, "I've been saying that for years."
I've talked to the folks that make shows like SDSU into cult classics.
THEY HATE THIS SHOW. They seem to think Miracle's animated right-wing-hippie tits are the only things salvaging it (there was at least one drawing of her without her shirt within four hours of the first episode, no lie), and even then it's not really worth it.
This show was doomed from the start and nothing will make it beloved. DOOMED I TELLS YUH