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Article: Juvenile humor brings down `Grown Ups'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 1999
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GROWN UPS Starring: Jaleel White, Dave Ruby, Marissa Ribisi On:
UPN, Ch. 38 Time: Tonight at 8:30 Rated: TVPG
The wonderful world of sitcoms includes officecoms, couplecoms,
familycoms, kiddiecoms, and roomiecoms.
"Grown Ups," the first fall show from UPN, is an example of a
species known as the dumbcom. It's a slapped-together half-hour
that's got very little going for it except that it's one step up from
the braindeadcom, whose masterpiece may be the garishly inane
"Veronica's Closet." To its credit, the show has a few surreal
flourishes, but on the downside, the jokes in "Grown Ups" are
unfailingly generic and sexual, not to mention stale, triggering
flashbacks to the sex jokes of other ...