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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (66504)	6/9/2009 5:56:56 PM
From: Alan Smithee	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224714

It's an ABC comedy that supposedly pokes fun at the eco-nuts. Reading some of the comments on IMDB and elsewhere, I get the impression liberals are having trouble at laughing at themselves. Here's a summary from Variety: What "King of the Hill" did for Texas rednecks, Mike Judge and crew accomplish with Prius-driving tree-huggers in "The Goode Family" -- a smart, wryly funny animated comedy that's going to need a strong word-of-mouth campaign to flourish. The sole qualifier is that the pilot chews through so many juicy storylines, the question of how fast the best plots will be exhausted represents a source of concern; still, assuming liberals can laugh at their own foibles, ABC might just have TV's first true Obama-era sitcom on its hands. Judge -- the vocal talent/showrunner who has already birthed limited-animation gems "King" and "Beavis and Butt-head" -- teams with former "King" colleagues John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky in crafting this half-hour about the Goodes. Gerald (voiced by Judge) and Helen (Nancy Carell) are so committed to their politically correct lifestyle that even the dog, Che, is forced to be a Vegan -- though judging by watching him salivate at the sight of small animals that keep turning up missing, the meat-free experiment doesn't quite appear to be working. The pair's teenage daughter Bliss (Linda Cardellini) doesn't share mom and dad's zealotry, and their attempt to adopt an African baby misfired when they brought home now-16-year-old Ubuntu (Dave Herman), who happened to be from South Africa and thus, inconveniently, white. When shopping at a big-box store is mentioned, Helen objects. "They don't even have a mission statement!" she protests.