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Article: HUMOR IN `TITUS' SO BAD IT JUST MIGHT BE GOOD.(Television)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 20, 2000
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Christopher Titus isn't the first to try to find the ``fun'' in ``dysfunctional.'' ``Married . . . With Children'' tried it for 10 seasons on Fox, the same network that presents the series premiere of ``Titus'' tonight at 8:30 (KCPQ/13).
While I never warmed to that meanwhile-back-at-the-raunch style of ``Married . . . With Children,'' I've now seen three episodes of ``Titus'' and must admit it just might grow on me. Like a fungus. (Hey, another ``fun'' word!)
``Titus'' has fun with the sorts of things you're not supposed to have fun with on television: mental illness, physical abuse, alcoholism. It's all based on his own life, Titus insists, as if ...