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This is good for you if you're looking for a reason to commit suicide. What has the world come to?
Terrible program
Sadly we watched the whole series. The high pitched voice goofy logic, poor acting and weak attempt at blocking made me insane. The only redeeming quality was that each episode is short. So the pain was short lived. My son however loved it.
The one trick pony has outgrown his trick
To be fair I'm not a Fred fan, but I'm also not a Fred hater, and had a laugh or two in recent years when someone dropped a link to a particular Fred youtube, so the synopsis and the free episode caught my eye as something to fill in a little break time. Did Fred ever translate into funny professional entertainment? I can't say for sure, since I never paid attention to the movie, but this sitcom episode is just awful.
The plot and characters are not fresh, but plenty of comedy holds up just fine under these conventions, and while I do like the approach of taking real and common human flaws and amplifying them to a bizarre degree, that's not at all new in itself either. The true failing is that they are quirky and overwrought in a way that could only work at being funny or interesting in the orbit of a star that delights us, and there is none here. What was kind of funny in the past in the vlog of an amusing kid has somewhere along the way turned into an uninspired...
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