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“$#*! My Dad Says’: trailer

Take a look at the new Twitter-inspired comedy starring William Shatner as an opinionated 72-year-old father.

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Do we have another Two and a Half Men? Is it the new Frasier?  Or is it neither?

Hard to know from this…. but it does warrant attention. With William Shatner on board, how could it not?

Here is the trailer from $#*! My Dad Says, the new sitcom inspired by the Twitter account ShitMyDadSays, which has a cool 1.3m followers.

It sees Shatner playing an opinionated 72-year-old two his two adult sons, Henry and Vince in a traditional sitcom.

The title will be (ridiculously) pronounced as ‘Bleep My Dad Says’ but I am hereby going to refer to it as ‘Shat My Dad Says’ -seriously what were they thinkin’? There’s comedy gold right there and they skipped it.

This one should be a Nine show in Oz….

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  1. It reminds me of an American version of Kingswood Country (with an anti-PC older father as the centre of the show).

    I like it, but wish it was on Ten. I reckon it’ll be a goer on Go! though.

  3. I don’t know what this show will be like week in and week out but just looking at the promo,I loved it, laughed at every punch line……maybe I’m easily pleased.

  4. I think they explained on the 7pm project (I think it was on that?) why it wasn’t being referred to as “Shat my father says”… something about how most US folks say “sh*tted” instead of “shat”.

    I’m probably going to give it a miss. Seems a bit too much like Frasier to me. Frasier crossed with two and half men crossed with king of queens. hmm.

  7. I Think this could be good, if it gets the right audiance.

    Wonder if Nine will try and pair it Mondays with 2.5 Men, looks like about the same level of humor, just makes me wonder what they would do with TBBT, maybe make it a 1.5 hour comedy block?

  8. @Daniel H: Yes the world really operates that rigidly.

    “The Practice”, “Boston Legal”, “Ugly Betty”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Desperate Housewives”, and a little show called “Lost” – all ABC, all shown on 7. These are just off the top of my head, I’m sure there are many other examples. (Isn’t “2.5 Hours Every Weeknight” a CBS show on 9)?

  9. When I saw the first dailies of this I was really sad by how unfunny it was.

    Such a shame for him to make such a poor move after the magnificence of Boston Legal.

    Not to mention the “live with me” gag is recycled from Will & Grace. Karen coughs “please stay tonight” repeatedly to get Grace to stay in almost the same dialogue.

  10. The tweets were hilarious, however at 140 chars long, they are quick and to the point.

    I simply can’s stand the premise of this punchline, punchline, punchline style sitcom (or traditional sitcoms in general).

  12. lots of really bad looking comedies coming through, ABC’s ‘Better Together’ takes the cake. friends with benefits, mike&molly, Bob’s Burgers, even the hyped up Mr. Sunshine doesn’t look very good.

    last year modern family, cougartown, community, the middle, accidentally on purpose. reagrdless of how they turned out atleast they had decent trailers. this year will probably be an underwhelming year for comedies. NBC’s Outsourced does look good, and they seem to be loading it giving it a post Office slot.

    $MDS has a The big bang theory as it’s leadin so it could do well.

  14. Awful. It looks like those porn spoofs that were posted a while back.

    As much as I like Shatner, I think it needed to be an older, more senile man, in the vein of Frank from Everybody Loves Raymond. Someone who truly lived in a different time and is a bigot because they don’t know any better, rather than an older ‘dad’ who is just a bigot. Shatner seems too snappy rather than gruff and pissed-off.

    It’s certainly nothing like the Twitter posts. Besides, I always imagined that as an opinionated Jewish family anyway, like Jerry’s dad on Seinfeld.

  16. @Grinspoon – right. Works on Twitter. Won’t work nearly as well on TV if they remove the edge and make it ‘nice’. It will just feel like lame, dated American sitcom.

  19. Problem is this concept needs edge and that will never happen in the format with the audience they are going for. So it’s ll fail. putting “$#*!” in the title is not fooling anyone. Just seems so forced.

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