Thankfully, it isn't on telly anymore because it has been cancelled due to its extremely low ratings and that's why Allen Gregory is the most hated cartoon programme ever made. It's just so unfunny, slow, nasty, brutish, tiresome ans painful. Nobody wants to watch this filth.
Don't watch it on Netflix if it's available and when it comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray, don't buy and don't even waste your money on this rubbish. Thumbs down if you hate this cartoon. This does not belong on your telly. Reading the other user comments, I would think that I'd hate this show. I don't like shows that make fun of other people, I sometimes have trouble with un-PC topics, and the sexual stuff seems as if it should be the most offensive thing in the world.
I love it. It makes me laugh, it's shocking and silly. It only works because it's a cartoon. I literally laughed out loud at times during both of the first two episodes. So - Give it a try! You might be surprised that you like it, and you might be surprised that you hate it. It's just a TV show, and it's just a cartoon. The voices are fantastic, though the father is by far the most irritating character on the show. It's awful.
It is actually the worst show I've ever seen in my life. I can't stand any of the characters. Allen and his father are pretentious and not in any sort of entertaining way. Also what's the deal with Jeremy being with that guy when he's not even gay. That made no sense at all. The part when Jeremy has a talk with Allen, I was hoping he would actually have something meaningful to say. He didn't. He just said "I'm not gay. I'm only with your father because he's a creeper who wouldn't stop until he got what he wanted, and if you behave the same way, you'll get want you want.
I hope this show gets cancel very soon. It probably will. I don't understand how anyone could ever like it. I saw this show with low expectations, not expecting it to be that great knowing how FOX's Animation Domination has gone terribly down hill, and in all honesty, it's not terrible. I absolutely love the dead-pan, sarcastic, somewhat subtle humour.
Reminds me a lot of the show Home Movies, a favourite show of mine. I love the fact that an adorable 7 year old kid acts like a rich young adult, to the point that he is oblivious that he is a child. The fact that his parents are two gay men is awesome, I mean come on it's , about bloody time this happened.
Not sure why people are putting this show down so much, it's not absolutely terrible. It maybe be out there, a bit rude, offensive, but hey, depending on the way you look at it, it can be quite funny. Sure it may not be the best show on TV, but it's a sign that comedy might be heading into a better direction. A direction of humour that isn't so silly and in-your-face like a lot of American comedy has been the past few years. I have a decent vocabulary, one developed through years of reading and scrabble, and I don't have anything other than profanity to describe this show.
It's not funny, it's not clever, it's not nice to look at, it literally has no redeeming features of any sort. The characters are infuriating and unlikable. It's terrible, pure and simple.
Compared to it's competition, it's distinctly lacking. Even against programming like the Cleveland Show, which is still finding its legs, it's terrible. It's junk. Pure and simple. Fredo 17 November I think the fact that so many people write this show off as unfunny or "too pretentious" just makes me like it that much more.
Yes, the show's fans seem to be a rare breed, but mass popularity doesn't always equate to a better product. It just means that product is more palatable to the masses. Thumbs up, Jonah. Thanks for not churning out another obvious, basic animated sitcom. In the name of all that is good and holy, please let FOX get this wretched mess off the air and give us the promised second season of the vastly superior "Bob's Burgers" already.
I'll give anything animated a fighting chance, but after watching three episodes of this crap I can safely say that not only is "Allen Gregory" not nearly as sharp or witty as it's creators apparently consider it to be, but it's one of the most aesthetically unappealing animated series ever. Jonah Hill needs to stick to live action films.
Visually unpleasant animation seriously-this show is ugly to look at combined with characters who are more often than not creepy and not in a comedic way produces a relatively laugh-free result which manages to neither be hip or walk the cutting edge of being subversive. It's simply bad. People praising this are reading a level of sophistication into the humor that isn't there.
For all of the flack that "Bob's Burgers" has gotten from certain quarters, at least it possesses an element of genuine wit as well as heart.
Rude, boundary-pushing humor can be done successfully.. But there's an intrinsic difference between pushing boundaries with a sly grin as a cracked way of making a valid point or ridiculing some absurd aspect of our culture and just being flat out mean spirited "Allen Gregory" ,with it's repulsively cold tone, falls squarely into the latter category. Watching this show is a miserable experience. This series asks us to laugh because characters are uncomfortable.. Two noteworthy examples of this are the horribly miscalculated scenes in the earliest episodes where Allen's stepfather acknowledges that he's not gay and is in a relationship Allen's dad because the father is "a creeper who wouldn't quit" and an entirely bizarre and humorless moment where the resolutely unlikable father threatens to make life miserable for the school principal when she refuses to engage Allen's romantic aspirations.
While there probably are viewers who got some sort of a chuckle out of these moments, my reaction was to stare at the TV,puzzled, wondering when this damned thing was finally going to generate some laughs. And, hey, congrats to the writers who, with the advent of Allen's father, managed to conceive one of the worst gay television characters in the history of the medium.
These people need to take a few days and watch multiple episodes of the exponentially funnier series "Soap" so they can get some sort of a clue as to how to write a reasonably plausible gay character, a feat that was successfully navigated with a role which made Billy Crystal a star some thirty years ago.
Better yet, just skip the history lesson and cancel this regrettable misfire. It really astounds me that this ever made it onto television. This is terrible. I have watched a few episodes now thinking maybe it would get better, but it hasn't. None of the characters are in any way likable. They are rude, pretentious and totally unbelievable. They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The show attempts to be witty, but comes across as rude and offensive.
Satire is an art, and the makers of it do not have the ability to write it. Do not waste your time with this show. With any luck, it will be canceled soon. But knowing TV networks, this will keep going and other shows worth watching will be kicked off the air. I'll probably be the first to say that I liked the pilot, it introduced the main character Allen Gregory, who is a pretentious super genius, forced to go onto Elementary School instead of being home schooled for him to experience a life beyond corporate business, Allen thinks it would be a walk through the park but is faced with the reality that regardless of his talents, and intellect, he is really not above everyone else.
It's not new, or groundbreaking material but with all the clever jokes, and settings that could been used, it would have made for a great show however the writers failed to really see the potential of the show, and in turns we were left with a bunch of dull, stagnant filler just to fill in the - time slot for a Sunday night block.
The main problem with the show is the characters themselves, Allen Gregory in particular, he's a smug, pretentious little twerp who acts as though he's on top of the world, and is a total suck up yet he's able to walk all over everyone, and continue his nasty attitude, no real conflicts, no development, nothing.
His dad Richard is pretty unlikable too, he's a homosexual stereotype; a male prima donna. He has that same problem of acting like he's on top of the world, and getting through life rather easy despite being a bad person. One thing about him is that he made a straight man no really he is straight by will into his love partner against his will. Everyone else are easily forgettable. User Info: WindMouseHanpan. Never seen it but it seems awful judging from Enter's review of it.
The fact it only got.. Let's plays, non-commenatated playthroughs 'n more! Come on down to Iido's Gaming Den! User Info: AceMos. AceMos posted More topics from this board Keep me logged in on this device.
Forgot your username or password? Then I saw the review scores for the series and thought I was pretty much vindicated so I pretty much skipped out on it and before I knew it the show was cancelled.
Well eventually my curiosity got the better of me because I just had to see how bad it really was and I have to say I thought it was pretty good. The characters were actually pretty enjoyable and the storylines were actually able to shirk my expectations and surprise me once or twice. Felt like it got cut short just as the series was about to pick up steam. Julie pulls a complete , not once but twice, for poorly explained reasons. Even if it is only to watch them get crushed, it would be watchable if they were developed.
If Julie were the protagonist trying and failing to thwart her awful brother, with Jeremy playing an awkward fatherly role to her this show might have been watchable. Instead, they're hard to really like as they feel like potentially interesting premises left flat.
The father and son are only developed in so far as they are spoilt and want things, there isn't any kind of charm in them that even makes them fun to hate.
Where Cartman might usually come out on top or at least break even , its clear he suffers and that lends him a charm. People hate him and he deserves it, but he comes up with new and interesting ways to win that hate.
Allen Gregory doesn't have that; there's no attempt at wit, charm or even characterization. He's an unlikeable Anti-Sue who gets his way and the characters simply roll with this. There isn't even a wink and smile at the camera. I can see this show having had potential if they'd taken any other route or put any kind of effort into it.
Instead we got this; a sociopathic manchild and regular child run amok. It is not remotely as subversive as it wants to be. Thankfully, it died quickly and so we can reclaim some shred of hope in the quality of Television these days.
The Simpsons was something of a revelation when it first aired, a subversive animated sitcom about a dysfunctional family. It has since been followed by countless imitators jumping on the "edgy animated sitcom" bandwagon, and Allen Gregory is easily one of the worst. In fact, I'm not sure I can think of a cartoon I've watched that is worse.
Simply put, the show is both outlandishly meanspirited and, more unforgivably, mindnumbingly unfunny. The premise is paper-thin.
A spoiled, pretentious seven-year-old raised by a rich gay couple has to go to elementary school. The eponymous Allen Gregory is obviously molded after Stewie Griffin, except without anything that made Stewie Griffin funny. He's just a brat you want to see punched in the face. Similarly loathsome is Richard, Allen Gregory's father, who's basically just a gay spoiled brat. The problem is I have no idea what the joke with his or Allen's character is supposed to be.
With Homer Simpson you have an obvious caricature of working class America, and the humor comes from exaggerations of the stereotypes. But with Richard there's no actual joke. Similarly, Stewie Griffin was funny because he was a baby who A.
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