5.27.2009

The Goode Family – Animated Jab at the Liberal Mentality


Does this sound funny? Worthwhile? Offensive? If the trailers above and below are any indication, “The Goode Family” could truly be the best animated series coming to a flatscreen near you. It premieres tonight at 9 pm on ABC.

Listen to this review from the Daily News here “Gerald and Helen Goode drive a hybrid car, eat vegan and fret over what to call their black neighbor. Helen refuses to shop at a supermarket that sells cheap bottled water because “they don’t even have a mission statement.”Helen also has a myopic view of her relationship with her teenage daughter, Bliss, assuming they can be BFF because the Goodes are like, you know, so totally non-judgmental.” Poking fun of the most judgementalist, self-avowedly non-judgemental folks in our society? The same ones that claim to ‘openmindedness’ yet can’t stand for the conservative/libertarian point of view? And from Hollywood you say? How can this be? I have to laugh here folks, I really do. I truly know people here in Southern California that fit this description to a ‘t’. They live in a complete bubble surrounded by people that think identically to them and are never challenged.


The Goode family applies the mantra “What would Al Gore do?” to their everyday lives. They live day to day with a clear focus of reducing their ‘carbon-footprint.’ They feed their lone little doggy veggies only. I assume the he is named after the Left-famed Che Guevera? Mr. Goode even separates two-ply toilet paper that his wife mistakenly bought.

Mike Judge, creator of “Beavis and Butthead” in the 1990’s and the recently cancelled (after 13 seasons), “King of the Hill,” is the director of the show. I love how Mike Judge describes Gerald Goode (he also does his voice on the show) as being “an administrator at a community college, he comes from a long line of over-educated academic liberals”, Co-writer John Altschuler“We always decribe Helen (Goode),as a local activist who someday dreams of being an activist, someone who knows that everyone has a right to their own opinion but she just can’t stand it…”

Watch it tonight.

10 comments:

Bungalow Bill said…

I will be watching. Mike Judge is a comic genius.

Left Coast Rebel said…

BB – I agree, I hope it’s good……

The Law said…

haha, I love shows with social commentary… except American Dad, because it was the worst spin off TV show I can remember. Thanks for the heads up, I’ll def check this out!

Left Coast Rebel said…

The Law – American Dad did suck…..tell me how you like the show tonight!

bluepitbull said…

Mike Judge is a genius!! When I was stationed at Fort Hood, they had the cast of Band of Brothers, along with the original WWII vets the story was about come to sign books and DVDs. I found out Ron Livingston was gonna be there and brought my Office Space DVD along. What an awesome day all around, two American classics together.

ps: Check the title photo of my blog, just for you 😀

Ananda girl said…

I did not care for King of the Hill. I do like Beavis and Butthead. I enjoy satire. We shall see how it goes.

Left Coast Rebel said…

Blue – Mike Judge is a genius, I’m jealous that you attended such a cool meeting..

Ananda – We’ll see how it is, it may not be ‘family friendly’, I probably should have mentioned that in my post…

RKL said…

That looks like an funny show. I’ve always liked Mike Judge’s work. Thanks for the tip, I guess I missed the first episode tonight though.

RKL

Left Coast Rebel said…

Blue – Awesome, man! Just make sure the doggy doesn’t chew on the book, it’s sacred as far as I am concerned….

Euripides said…

The NY Times and the LA Times reviewers both hated the show. That’s good enough for me to watch it!

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