It's not "too easy" to make fun of all that if you do it well, and Mike Judge usually does things well. 

(I would note, being a big 30 Rock fan, that Liz Lemon's hang-ups are mocked on the show, too, poking fun of her too-earnest, too-concerned ways. Balboa out.) 

You have to read all the liberal quotes in the article to yourself using Rush Limbaugh's liberal voice, ie 'Mither Limba...'.

These people can become characters in next week's episode.

Remember, 9pm ET tonight. Sorry Shawn.

Mike Judge has struck gold with this show!!!!

As long as there continue to be the above reviews this show will NEVER run out of material. If the left cannot see the irony in their complaints about the show, and the shows actual content then there is no hope for them. I can't wait to actually watch this and enjoy.

This is great...

"But the show feels aggressively off-kilter with the current mood, as if it had been incubated in the early to mid-’90s, when it was possible to find global-warming skeptics among even the reasonable and informed."

"...when it was possible to find..."

So, if you don't drink the liberal/MSM kool-aid, you are not "reasonable and informed."  Wow, that's the best laugh all day (hoping for a better one tonight, when i watch the show in question).

I think the reason that libs don't have a sense of humor is that they base their positions on emotions and not facts or an understanding of history.  Conservatives often poke fun at themselves because they're secure in their knowledge of history and facts (and values). 

When you poke fun at a liberals cause, it's like telling a parent that their kid is ugly... they take it personally.  And, the uglier the kid is, the more the parent will get ticked off at you.

Kinda clunky. Some good parts. Might grow on me.  

I can't wait to watch "That's My 'Bama." Timothy Bottoms can do Biden.

-Dave

Agree on Che. Let's give it a few more episodes, it takes time and you burn up a few episodes introducing all the characters. Making fun of liberals and especially greenies is so easy, these scripts must write themselves.

Ubuntu is a wonderful poke in the eye to those that hyperventilate over white Africans that emigrate to America calling themselves 'African-Americans'. Also enjoy the ridicule of Octomom and the celebrity adoption trends.

So much material, only half an hour.

He isn't "sending" a message. It's a parody of the mindset much like King of the Hill. However over it's years KOTH has become more than just a "ha look at what they believe" cartoon. They wrote stories that made you care about the characters, showed their faults and positives.

 I hope The Goode Family can evolve into this as I'd liked KOTH in the later years. 

Even though the make some pretty lame jokes about conservatives and Christians, 30 Rock regularly makes fun of liberals.  They have thoroughly skewered environmentalists, white guilt and they have endless jokes about the overblown finickyness that liberals display in always applying the latest and most 'acceptable' name to minority groups.  I am a regular watcher and I think they might even give more grief to liberals than conservatives.

Despite being quite liberal, I really enjoy humor, even derisive or cutting humor, directed at liberalism.  The caveat, of course, is that it has to actually be funny; and unfortunately, most conservative attempts at such satirical humor in the vein of, say, The Daily Show or The Simpsons, have been just awful.  Like that Fox attempt at being funny where the first episode had President Limbaugh and VP Coulter.

I've always liked Mike Judge, so I watched this show last night and thought it was pretty good...though it would be a mistake to claim that it's not also poking some fun at conservatism here and there.  Nonetheless, it was hilarious when the liberal wife drunkenly asked a black man if minorities have a convention to decide "What they want to call things" and then asked, when he sarcastically indulges this idea, if she can come.

It's certainly not new though.  Judge has been doing this sort of satire of liberalism for over ten years on my personal favorite TV show of all time, King of the Hill.  I'd estimate that 75% of the jokes and obnoxious characters in that show are liberal ciphers.  But I'd also say that if Judge is himself conservative, it doesn't show.  

I'm thinking it will be such a hit that season two will be taken over by the government and handed over to writers with more diverse views.

Btw ... has anyone noticed that the NSIDC daily graph showing Arctic ice extent has been down again?

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

After nearly reaching the average for 1979-2000 levels in late April, the recent data had shown an unusual and abrupt dive indicating, as was the case in January, either the satellite sensors are going out again or someone is fudging the data.

The mainstream media is hiding the story of what's really going on in the Arctic. Anyone who has walked out of his or her house this spring and noticed the mild, cool, and even chilly temperatures doesn't need a weatherman to know which way a chill wind blows.

metaphorsbwithu

At least here on this show, the liberal characters are the core of the cast, so shouldn't that please the MSM? I mean, how come they praised King of the Hill even though its core cast was a right-of-center Methodist Christian family and their neighbors, who at first glance from the politically correct, would be redneck-like? I don't get that at all. They prefer the realistic caricature of a conservative Christian family to the realistic caricature of a liberal secular family? The Hills actually seem like the most realistic American family depicted on television in the last two decades because you could believe the kind of situations that a politically correct society would bring upon the Hills. And the butt of the jokes were usually skinny government social workers from L.A. ("Outta my way, twig boy!"), animal rights protesters ("Would it kill a tree for them to wear a bra?"), and, drumroll please... The MSM! Yay! (clap-clap-clap-clap)

I was being sarcastic about clapping for the MSM.

I caught the whole episode, and my impressions were that it has promise, but some things need to be improved. The cold opening and first act seemed to be the weakest parts of the episode, which you would expect from the first episode of any TV show, but a Mike Judge show? The problem was that the exposition on the family was too distracting from the actual plot of the episode. At least on the first KOTH episode, there was some leeway for some plot development while introducing the characters. I would say it gained momentum at the second and third acts with the whole plot (which they probably should have saved for episode 2 just like on KOTH.) The scene stealer was the mother who was inebriated and just asked frankly to her black neighbor if there's a convention that decides on how black people should be called. He just plays along and mutters "Memphis." That was classic. So, not bad, but it could have been better.

What better endorsement to watch the show than to have it ridiculed by the 'liberal' people whom the show ridicules.

I forgot to watch the first episode but I better remember this week - heh, heh!