Wednesday, October 17, 2007
What's so funny about peace love and harmony?
If you're not watching "Aliens in America" you are missing out. What? What is this show? you ask. What channel is it on? It's a sitcom about a midwestern family who get a foreign exchange student so their lonely, geeky teenage son will have a built in friend and be popular. This of course is fed to them by the guidance counselor/town's best car salesman (I kid you not), who shows a brochure of a good looking blond boy next to a nerdy kid who is now class president or something, to prove his point. The Tolchock's are expecting a boy from London and instead end up with a Pakistani boy who changed planes in London. They want to send him back immediately (he might blow up their small Wisconsin town! They pose as students. Bill O'Reilly said so!), but this being the world of the sitcom where the laughter cannot ensue without the foreign kid, they decide to keep him. That's right, they're keeping the quirky, dish washing, floor swiffering, sandal wearing, praying to Mecca boy in Wisconsin. Freaking comedy gold people. Gold. This show has it all. Adorable outsider? Check. Insane mom? Check. Racism? Check. Uneducated American teenagers? Misunderstandings about the world in general? Awkwardness? Check, check and check again. Gold, people, G-old (not to be confused with Go'ould, those evil symbiotes on Stargate SG-1). What channel is it on? you ask again with baited breath. Well that would be the CW. Uh-huh, that's right CW. What lazy writer? you ask. What are these letters you are saying? C? and W? Is that a channel? Why, I've never heard of it! Are you speaking in some foreign language to confuse me? No, gentle reader, I am not. The CW is a real channel, difficult though it may be to believe. Check your local listings and either watch or Tivo this show. You will not be sorry. Think of me as you guffaw over the awkwardness and idiocy of America.
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3 comments:
You would get along well with my better half, I think. He too has a passion for bad tv.
Are you mad woman? This show is NOT bad! It's freaking genius! Genius for it's total non-pc-ness.
Well I've not seen it, but I'm having a hard time believing that anything on Channel 11 is actually a good show.
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