Shark Bytes
Maybe I was too old to watch this when it came on, (15) but this is one of the very few shows tho have jumped the shark on day one. It was like an extremely pathetic attempt to ride on the coat tails of Dinosaurs. What an insult to anyone with a higher IQ than a gnat. (That might even be insulting to gnats).
I hate to say this,but this is the only bad show the Jim Henson Company ever made. I do believe it was kinda like an ALF ripoff,but I also think it was also a failed attempt to revive Dinosaurs(having the muppets being made to look realistic,and Bobutt the baby was an evil version of the brilliant Baby Sinclair). I think Family Guy has a few things in common with this show(not that Family Guy is bad,it's way better than this) mostly because Bobutt and Stewie are both evil baby geniuses. all I have to say is to just give me anything with frogs,bears,dinosaurs,or even monsters any day.
Day one! It's so funny that people actually remember this hideous piece of garbage...I thought I was the only one who experienced the pain that is "aliens in the family". For those of you don't remember it/never saw it...here's all you need to know.. Bad, 3rd grade school-play style costumes for the "aliens" and painfully cheesy dialoge for the "humans". This show was actually stuck on a prime time slot, but after like 2 episodes was aired on saturday mornings. That just proves how sad it was; but even little kids couldn't stand this show. The crowning jewel of festering puke had to be the baby alien (big hand puppet) who was innately evil...of course one else noticed this but the ever-trembling, on-the-verge-of-climbing-the-bell-tower nanny. Yeesh...Honestly..who the HELL thought this would ever be a hit?????? Now maybe the producers figured "ah, what the hell..it's kitchsy" No it wasn't. I feel for the actors and actresses because they probably never worked again.
This show had a bunch of flaws. For one, the pilot episode wasn't even about how the alien woman and the Earthling man met, so you had no idea how they hooked up. At least in similar shows (such as The Brady Bunch), the pilot episode started off on a regular base. This show didn't. Needless to say, the show was also corny. I think Jim Henson studios tried to make another ALF and failed, especially with weekly morals like, "Bobut, [Yeah, I remembered the name of the baby on the show. I'm weird] I know you wanted to make your babysitter feel better about breaking up with her boyfriend, but taking her boyfriend and manipulating his brain waves is not the way to do this." I mean, c'mon! Can you get any lamer than that?
This show absolutely utterly stunk. One of the worst and truly awful shows ever. About the worst feature was the alien kids who looked so phony (Alf was more life-like). How this ever got to air is beyond me.
Pretty lousy from the get-go, but it had a cool Zappa-esque theme song. I also liked how the freaky alien teen was always being hit on by sexy Kristanna Loken ( "Unhappily Ever After", "Mortal Kombat: Conquest" & the upcoming "Terminator 3" ). Oh, to be in his shoes!
This show absolutely stunk. The aliens looked like crap, the scripts were plain awful and the jokes terrible. Overall it is hard to find a worse sitcom
Certainly one of the stupidest things to air in the last 10 years. I'd like to meet the moron ABC exec who gave this piece of crap the go-ahead and passed "Third Rock From the Sun" over to NBC!
AHHHHHHHH! There is not an emoticon to describe my anger twoards this show! THIS WAS THE BIGGEST INSULT MUPPETS AND SCIENCE FICTION EVER!
I LOVED this show, and the baby was the best part! It was smart and funny, you have to have paid attention to get the jokes. I wish I had every episode on tape.
This is in response to the previous comment. If you had actually read what I said, you'd have noticed that I didn't call the muppets the WORST part of the show. They were one of MANY bad parts; this show had NOTHING going for it. First of all, let's assume that the mupppets were good (they weren't, but let's pretend for a little while). If you love macaroni and cheese, and someone serves you up a steaming hot plate of macaroni and cheese and dog ****, you don't pick out the macaroni and cheese and eat it; the yummy macaroni and cheese is ruined and not salvageable. All you can do is dump the whole stinking mess in the trash. The **** has taken something good (the macaroni and cheese) and turned it into something totally new which isn't good at all (macaroni and cheese and dog ****); the two aren't separate anymore. See where I'm going? It'd take a truly AWFUL show to ruin something as cool as muppets, wouldn't it? Well, that's what happened here. Or, I should say, that's what WOULD HAVE happened here, had the muppets been cool to begin with. But, I'm sorry, they weren't. They were ugly, and unfunny, and uninspired, and completely out of place. The baby looked like a cross between a squid and the baby on Dinosaurs, and the big blue retarded brother just wandered around rattling off a list of how things on "his planet" were different than things on "this planet". WOW! THAT'S FUNNY!!! "On my planet, Spit [the puppet's name] means Handsome Warrior. On my planet, blah blah. On my planet, blah blah blah blah." The sister alien was the exact same way. Look, don't waste your energy trying to find something enjoyable about this show. There's NOTHING there to like! Just post your "Day One" vote and move on to newer and better things.
I too didn't care for this series, which disappointed me, because John Bedford Lloyd had turned in such a great performance as Victor during the first season of Remember WENN (which he returned to when this show ended). But also, how can you even argue that the Muppets were the worst part of the show?! The Muppets were the only enjoyable part of the show. The scripts were maybe horrible, but the puppeteer was not. Peter Linz, who has since gone on to create the brilliant role of Tutter on Bear in the Big Blue House, played the Baby in this, and he really showed potential. But overall, a really bad show.
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