Life on a Stick

This sitcom is a fairly obvious joke about sitcoms. Very graduate school meta humor. And so, so lame.

You've got the precocious little boy. The doofus dad. The sexy mom. The angsty teen. The doofus young male and his dumb friend. The pretty girlfriend. All of them firing out quips in the midst of pure zaniness. Gosh darn it, if only the FONZ could grab his water skis and put us out of our misery, it would be PERFECT here in Sitcom Land! The worst part is all of these people could do at least slightly better. Except Amy. Amy Yasbeck is a charmer, and a thousand times smarter and better than her material. She delivers her "lines" very professionally, without a hint of justifiable, teeth grinding fury over an agent with worse judgment than the captain of the Titanic.

Laz (Zachary Knighton) and the dim-witted Fred (Charlie Finn) are best friends out of high school and working at the mall food court under the mean-spirited Mr. Hut. Laz is in love with fellow worker Lily (Rachelle Lefevre). His father Rick Lackerson is married to his step mom Michelle (Amy Yasbeck). His angry stepsister Molly (Saige Thompson) likes Jasper but he already has a girlfriend.

I like Laz, his idiot friend and Lily. They're a marginally funny trio. Being in the pretzel booth is funny. Laz's parents are distractingly unfunny. It's like Amy Yasbeck is trying too hard. Also this should try to be more of a teen show. Comedic parents get into the way. Molly is adorable angry cute teen but it's a struggle to keep her connected with the trio. She ends up sitting at the food court for unnaturally extended amount of time. It's an uneven marginally funny sitcom.

OK some people may not get this and i understand that but i actually can't stop laughing at this. And it's not like i'm some stupid 10 year old. I'm 16. It may be that people don't find the show intelligent enough but it's not meant to be intelligent. It's aimed at people who just want to laugh for a half hour. I just don't know how you couldn't find anything in this funny cause me and my friends laugh at everything in this show. some people may say the show is immature but i think that's the fun in it. Freds one-liners are enough to keep the show running from start to finish in my opinion. And the randomness in this comments are fantastic. Hope this was helpful.

I watched this show and there were a lot viewers saying this show sucked but when I checked it out I thought it was kind of funny and kind of stupid somewhat. It's not one of my all time favorites but it's okay. The show is about two teenagers who try to make a living in a fast food court in a shopping mall while the other one deals with dysfunctional family. It premiered on FOX back in March 2005 and then after only airing 5 episodes the show got canceled April 2005. This show is okay but not great.

User Rating: 5/10

BOTTOM LINE: OKAY BUT NOT A FAVORITE

I remember not really having much of an opinion about this show. Just that the male leads were insufferable dorks, that it was nice to see Robey back on network television and that Amy Yasbeck never looked hotter. The one thing that kept me watching this dreck every week was Saige Thompson. I really liked her angst-ridden, girl-next-door against the world character. She seemed like the sort of girlfriend I could have had in high school, if only I had found her. This would have been a much better show if it had been called "Molly Callahan Against the World" and starred Saige as a post-modern Clarissa dealing with teen angst and confusion issues. I hope we haven't seen the last of her.