Woops!

Where to start with Woops? I know, the immensely stupid plot! Y a y

So, basically, a man named Mark is a primary school teacher. When the kiddies are playing, he has his usual teacher lunch break. However, while at the drive-thru, a nuclear bomb panda on his city. But he's perfectly fine, because he was in a Volvo. Wait, what?!?! I know Volvos are safe cars, but really? They can't protect you from mass bombing!

Marcus: "The Volvo proved even safer then advertised!" You don't say, Marker!

So, after that disaster, Market is driving through the desert, where he sees a square of land and house completely fine... somehow. Markmallow, shocked by this, fittingly faints. He is then met by a family who saved him and survived the bombing.

Ah dear. Let's get the worst part of the show: It's acting. Marketing's acting is about as stimulating as a plank of wood, and everyone else is trying, but also feel like wood.

The music is so so so overly happy. Why, this man just witnessed mass genocide, so why did the composers create this sappy of a soundtrack?!?!

This show isn't mean, or overly cruel. The plot was good at it's time, but I can't enjoy it much, because it is monumentally stupid.

OK, so it was not the best attempt and perhaps the subject matter did not leave much room for development. But I kind of liked this little fill in show. It started with a parade and some clumsy kids then showed a guy in a VW bug at at a gas pump surrounded by desert. I have just finished converting the 5 and a half episodes I could find on some old tapes to DVD and the one episode that I really loved came through...the guilt ridden Santa show. This was one of the most hilarious Christmas shows I have ever seen. It seems when the bombs dropped, Santa panicked and locked Mrs. Claus out of the bunker. Now he is torn by guilt and becomes a pain in the butt for the hapless survivors in the farm house. Great stuff. OK, so it was may have been a poorly done rip off of Gilligan's Island. You had the liberal, the spoiled rich Republican, the stupid hot chick, the frustrated mid aged gal, the urbane black guy (Rembrandt Brown from Sliders) and the homeless guy. Comparisons can be made to the island bound folks. While they did make a good will attempt to entertain I think it was doomed from the start due to built in limitations. But it was diverting, as these quickie Fox shows go,and I would like to see it on DVD someday. After all, look at how popular the 6 episodes of Police Squad are.

The group decides to form a simply economy to make things feel civilized. They base the economy on twist-ties just for fun, and then divvy up some goods. The stockbroker takes nothing but some simple tools.

Later they're all having fun trading goods and services for a few twist-ties. It's basically a bunch of kids playing store at this point, until they ask the stock broker for a shovel. He charges one of them 50 twist-ties for an hour's worth of shovel-time. The show actually takes a dramatic commercial break here.

The show returns after the break to see the broker as a self-appointed King. They're all basically serfs/slaves on King's land. They start an underground newspaper, which is nothing more than a note that says the King sucks or something similarly simple. The main character makes a smart remark about the paper, and another guy walks up says 'Yeah I stopped subscribing because they keep running the same article.' FUNNIEST LINE IN THE SHOW....sigh.

Finally the overthrow the King when the former-teacher fixes him some 'super-fiber' muffins. She owns all the toilet paper still, and charges him a million twist ties per roll.

In the next scene you see the woman has now appointed herself queen, treats the people even worse, and has a crown made of twist ties. Which is a little bit funny.

Somehow they just give up on the economy and go back normal. Lesson learned (I don't know what it was). End show (probably the best ever).

Woops! (1992) was a show that I kept on hearing about being in

development for a few years. The concept was interesting and I waited.... and waited for it to finally come on television. After waiting for the

Network to finally air the first episode I just completely forgot about it. But when it did air I wasn't impressed. It was very lame and juvenile. I could

have come up with better ideas whilst sitting on the toilet. Too bad

because I really liked the premise. Sadly, like all shows if this genre the

producers fail to deliver a good product. What's even stranger is the fact

that this show was neither a comedy or a fantasy. It's neither fish or fowl. Just another bad show that didn't make it a full season. Not to be confused

with Whoops! or Whoops Apocalypse!

I'm Mike Tee Vee. See ya next time!

This show drove me nuts for one reason-they SPELLED THE NAME OF THE SHOW WRONG. 'Whoops' has an 'H' in it. This tells us a lot about the people who were behind it. Not one person caught this simple error. The show itself was pretty dumb, as I recall.