Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

liquidcelluloid-1 Network: FOX; Genre: Sitcom; Content Rating: TV-PG (for cartoonish violence and cartoonish gruesome imagery); Classification: Contemporary (Star range: 1 - 4);Season Reviewed: Complete Series (1 season)Like all entertainment, television is such a revolving door medium in which we take for granted just how much bad product flows in and out of its gates each year because it is accepted as the system that must exist to find the good shows. Even with all this, every once in a while a show will come along that begs extra attention because it is awful in a way that is leaps and bounds worse than anything else out there. "The Pitts", is a spectacular failure earning a rock-solid place in the Hall of Television Shame - a hall that is quickly being filled up by Fox under Gail Berman's tenure as programming president. The Pitts is the pet project of Mike Scully and Julie Thacker, two show-runners largely blamed for rolling forward the snowball that ultimately led to the destruction of a 7 year former masterpiece that was "The Simpsons". In exchange for sucking the identity and vision out of that show and turning it into an assembly line series that the network can replicate for seasons to come, Fox granted them the opportunity to turn loose with their own show. Maybe that's not how it happened, but some level of clout at the network is the only way to explain how this thing got past the pilot stage. Much less on the air. Much less to replace something truly, brilliantly, irreverent like "Andy Richter Controls the Universe". If this got on the air, what pilots failed that year? It follows the Pitts family, headed by dad (Dylan Baker, who always looks creepy to me after Todd Solondz's "Happiness") and mom (the late Kellie Waymire) and two children (Lizzie Caplan & David Henrie), whose face daily trials and adventures as, as the show explains it, the unluckiest family in the world. At any moment any over-the-top, completely fanciful catastrophe could befall them. This is similar to the concept that was pitched for NBC's Steven Weber vehicle "Cursed", 3 years prior, before network execs decided that it was impossible to turn into a series - revamping it before it hit the air. Pitts takes the concept head-down, full-bore all the way into live action cartoon territory with nobody at the Fox network able to say no to Scully. I can't believe I'm saying this but, compared to Fox, NBC was right. The show best speaks for itself. Stories involve the family fighting off a psychotic nanny, a fanatical haunted Volkswagen and dummy, becoming werewolves, spreading a virus around, being taken hostage, their living room caving in and a teenage girl getting a pipe blown through her head. Let's not forget some out-of-place scatological humor. Teenage Faith's (Caplan) unlucky family is constantly a source of embarrassment at school. In stitches yet? It's not that it is impossible for this material to be funny, but Scully and Thacker don't have a shred of the comic skills to even bring that into consideration. They make a comedy 101 mistake thinking that because you can get away with something in animation, you can do the same with live action. But there is a world of difference between seeing Fry getting his arm ripped out of its socket or a pipe through the chest on "Futurama" and seeing a real person befalling a similar fate. This is shockingly a fundamental misunderstanding of what is so unique about animation. The show crosses the line from being not funny to being painfully unfunny. It isn't just stupid, it is a grossly unpleasant experience. You don't watch it, you subject yourself to it. Scully and Thacker's only moments that rise to possible boasting status are when they reference "The Simpsons". The way they glob onto the success of someone else's show (Matt Groening's) has a dumbfounding what-gives-you-the-right quality to it. The human critical mind wants to find doesn't want to believe that something someone actually worked on, actually put some effort into, can be this bad, this simple and this overtly stupid without any redeeming quality at all. Subjecting yourself to it the mind might wander off and start wondering if this is all there is, if there isn't something more subversive going on here. Maybe "The Pitts" is a post-modern masterpiece commenting on what people will put up with in their TV? Maybe it is a parody of itself or a parody of a parody? Of course, there is no evidence of this anywhere in the show, but that's what we'd like to think. I can only hope that that this show is released on DVD so that one of Fox's grandest little disasters can be cemented on store shelves for all too see. You have to wonder what on Earth is going on in the programming department over there. Do they really have this much contempt for their audience? Look this far down on us? If they are this out of touch it is frightening. "The Pitts" deserves to rank with "My Mother the Car", "Full House" and "Cop Rock" on a list of the worst shows of all time. The difference is that in time shows like "Cop Rock" have gained a high camp cult status. They are so serious and so full of themselves that they are now laugh riots. "The Pitts", with it's screeching laugh track and overbearing self-effacing stupidity will never reach that kind of cult status. 0 stars

knives_out Well, I don't know what Fox was thinking. They cancel shows like Family Guy and Futurama and put The Pitts in a prime spot. Okay, perhaps it's supposed to be a commentary on bad television shows, but it doesn't do it well. At all.Oh yes, you can definitely tell this show has the writers of The Simpsons involved, specifically because the current writers of The Simpsons couldn't write a good joke to save their lives. Both the recent seasons of The Simpsons as well as The Pitts rely on cheap laughs over fart jokes, injuries and the word "ass". The laugh track is irritating and I just wanna backhand each and every one of the actors. Oh that would be so sweet.Fox needs to stop trying to create "quirky" and "nutty" shows and concentrate on holding on to quality stuff they already have.

Sneakers It's nice to see humour that isn't just off the wall...it is all over the place. I just love this show, and it's sad peple don't apreciate it. The concept is funny...where a family with luck worse then the unluckiest person. Is it far-fetched? dang skippy it is...that's the point. where normal things never happen, and the outlandish do...a show where something remote is also very likely. I also like the obvious gags and spoofs...like being possessed, terrorized by a obsessed girfriend/date. This is a gem, and despite the obvious cornyness, it's very clever and layed out. It will probily get canceled, cause people just don't get it...that's why we loose great shows like Family Guy....and keep bore fests like King of the Hill. The Pitts show...if something is to happen...no matter how remote...it will happen. I give this a 8.5 outta 10.

reaper1800 Okay, maybe I'm just not smart enough or maybe nobody has let me in on the joke yet. I understand that they are purposefully making a bad t.v. show; it's that stupid on purpose. I get that. But why?Remember Yes, Dear? Did you love that one? Did you love Small Wonder? The Pitts is much similar to both in the fact that they all three are incredibly, mind-boggingly stupid. What a great premise that doesn't need the gimmick of being purposefully stupid. But it just doesn't work. The shame of it is, they could be reaching a far greater demographic by keeping the quirkiness and doing away with the moronic, vaudvillesque humor.With such a talented cast and crew it's obvious that this has the potential for being a hilarious, groundbreaking comedy show. Instead I believe some poor decisions were made in the writing department. Also, it maintains that it was filmed with a live studio audience; that leads me to wonder whether or not the audience is in the studio but watching something funny like Andy Richter Rules the Universe(which The Pitts replaced). It seems the only thing The Pitts has achieved in doing is dared some poor reviewer out there to look like an idiot by saying, "The Pitts is The Pitts." Then again, maybe somebody at Fox lost a bet. Either way, The Pitts is............................crap.