Reader Mikey D sent me news that Flavor Flav, who shall now only be referred to as Foofy Foofy, is starring in a sitcom that premiers tonight. Palm firmly on forehead I clicked the link he sent and there it was, “Under One Roof.”

*groan*

Fresh Prince meets pile of shit.

There’s not a whole lot of real info on the site so I thought I’d poke around to see if anyone had seen an episode. Apparently, MyNetworkTV didn’t feel confident enough to send out screeners to TV critics. But Mary McNamara of the LA Times managed to sneak a peak at a rough cut. She describes the cast as one note characters who reflect a wide variety of American stereotypes:

Winston (Kelly Perine), now a shallow, materialistic real estate baron, lives in the requisite McMansion carefully appointed with just about every stereotype imaginable: the stringy, implanted white trophy wife named Ashley (Carrie Genzel); a wimpy (possibly gay) son (Jesse Reid), a princessy (possibly stupid) daughter (Marie Michel) and a staff that includes a gibbering Chinese cook in a Mao jacket and a drunken Mexican gardener called Pablo. Pablo has replaced the former gardener, Mario, who, for a time, lives in one room of the mansion with nine family members, a chicken and a goat.

Nothing says funny like a Ching Chong Chinaman cook and a drunk Latino gardener.

The producers of the show apparently don’t understand how anyone could take offense. In the words of executive producer Claude Brooks, “It’s all about the big laughs. And we’re equal opportunity offenders.”

Now, to be fair, it is possible to offend your audience and get away with it. “South Park” takes shots at everyone and is balls funny. The key is intelligent writing. I seriously doubt that there will be much intelligence in this show.

The only draw for this show is Foofy Foofy. For the life of me, I can’t understand why a train wreck like him gets multiple reality shows and now a sitcom and a train wreck like Britney only gets a cameo. You replace Foofy Foofy with Britney Spears, I’m watching me some “Under One Roof.” Foofy Foofy seems to bring in the big bucks. There’s clearly an audience for his brand of buffoonery. But I don’t think you can bottle whatever he has up and try to package it up to sell. Foofy Foofy is best when he’s himself. On a sitcom, he has to learn lines, hit marks, wear makeup, rehearse. None of that sounds like Foofy Foofy.

Forget the blatant stereotypes or clueless producers or all of that. This show will fail because Foofy Foofy won’t be Foofy Foofy. He’ll be Foofy Foofy playing Cali Cal, a mere shadow of Foofy Foofy.

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