Although the new winter schedule has already had one well-deserved casualty so far, the news is not so great for people who get upset when bad shows receive good ratings while better shows toil in obscurity (a.k.a., Greendalies). First off, if you haven’t heard yet, last week’s debut of the Rob Schneider show, “Rob” — also known as televised prostate cancer — received stunningly great ratings, as 13.5 million of “Big Bang Theory’s” 15 million viewers stuck around to watch Rob make fun of Hispanics while a woman with large breasts spoke in an accent. That actually doesn’t speak very well of the “Big Bang” audience, either. If you’re one of the 1.5 million “Big Bang” viewers that changed the channel, you might want to take a moment and dissociate yourself from the rest of your fake nerd brethren (real nerds watch “Community,” bitches)
If that wasn’t distressing enough, thanks to the overrun of the Packers/Giants game, Fox’s “Napoleon Dynamite” fetched 9.5 million viewers and a whopping 4.6 million viewers among the 18-49 demo (that’s how many viewers the most watched comedy on TV, “Two and a Half Men” received in that demo last night). There was a slight drop-off for the second show, but the numbers are still encouraging for Fox.
Also encouraging for Fox was the debut of “Alcatraz” last night, which received 10 million viewers, up 3 percent over the debut of “Terra Nova” last fall. I don’t know how many of you watched it, but I only made it through the first hour before I gave up. Interesting premise, but it immediately falls into the formulaic procedural format, and as much as I like Sam Neill, the miscast hot blonde totally tanks it while Hurley is left to deliver painfully banal lines. That said, it’s not as bad as “Terra Nova.”
(Hurley’s Title Card via Bob Canada’s Blogworld)
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I liked Alcatraz enough to keep watching. Not really high praise. That being said, I’m happy to see Parminder Nagra working. I think she’s adorable.
It’s very rare that I don’t make it through an entire pilot, hell I usually give shows 2-3 episodes to hook me cause I know the Pilot is not usually the best.
But holy fuckballs “Rob” is so bad I didn’t even finish it. There really cannot be a worse sitcom on the air than that.
“Rob” is the new “Outsourced” ?
You mean, being intentionally racist while winking, nodding and then saying it’s not.
I enjoyed Alcatraz. I found the second hour to be much better than the first.
I am somewhat intrigued by Alcatraz, but I can’t say that I love it so far. We’ll see how stupid the explanation is for the whole premise, but until then, i’ll play along.
That blonde chicks boobs, though…
I shamefully admit, I walked away from the TV room after the Packers/Giants game and came back later to see that Napoleon Dynamite was ending. Sorry, America.
Shamefully, I walked away from the Packers/Giants game. But that’s because I’m a Packer fan, and was busy crying like a little girl with a skinned knee.
Can we really attribute Napoleon Dynamite’s number to the run-over from the Giants-Pack game? I mean, wasn’t there a Simpsons episode in between?
I actually had to record both of those Nap Dynamite atrocities so I could record the Simpsons. Yes, I am still a fan. Good thing I am not a Nielson person.
That was kind of my thought. Napoleon wasn’t great by any means but I have seen far worse on tv.
I am also a big Simpsons fan, but a little additional research shows that the Simpsons posted higher numbers than Nap-Dy, so maybe people just gradually tuned off of Fox.
Alcatraz gets my viewership because I’ll watch Sarah Jones watch me watch TV.
Yeah, she is something. Never has washing blood off of one’s self looked so good.
Napoleon Dynamite wasn’t half bad actually. I’ve seen a lot worse. (cough)Allen Gregory(cough)! … As for Rob, let’s just say that Mexicans like to watch TV show after a hard day laboring for white people. When said TV show makes fun of aforementioned white people, well then you’ve got yourself gold.
Real nerds are watching their Sealab DVDs and getting ripped.
.. just me?
Real nerds are thinking of watching their Sealab DVDs, but not doing it because we’re busy searching Wikipedia.
Real Nerds invent a new javelin to compliment Lamar’s limp-wristed throwing style. Everything else is just nerd posing.
Napoleon wasn’t actively awful like Allen Gregory, but it didn’t manage to get even a chuckle out of me, despite my watching most of the premiere. I turned to Alcatraz about 45 minutes late, couldn’t muster the interest to figure out what was going on. Blondie was pretty, but most of what was going on onscreen seemed very ho-hum. I watched one half of one scene of Rob, and I’m a worse person for it.
Real nerds watch Community I think you mean hipster douche bags with fake black framed glasses and “Talk Nerdy To Me” t-shirts they got off Sorg watch Community.
Well…I’m neither a hipster or a douche bag (at least to the best of my knowledge I’m not) but I sure do love Community. You, my good man, are a penis.
I know the ratings are low, but they’re not low enough to fit within such a specific segment of the population as that. I suspect you may be generalizing… albeit in a very specific way.
*watches Community, doesn’t own either of those items you mentioned, has never heard of Sorg (which, if that’s a criterion of doucheyness, means +1 douche point to you?)*