I Didn't Do It

Keeping that juvenile audience supplied with enough bubblegum idols, the next tween/teen comedy off the Magic Kingdom assembly line is I Didn't Do It. It will no doubt run its allotted three to four years before the cast moves on to other Disney and non-Disney products.

This one stars Austin North and Olivia Holt as a pair of fraternal twins who with their three friends Piper Curda, Sarah Gilman, and Payton Clark will no doubt get into all kinds of situations that would have fazed the grand old lady of comedy Lucille Ball if I'm any judge of what I've seen so far. They will also have a lot of 'Splaining' to do after each story with the grand old cop out I Didn't Do It.

In the Disney tradition the cast is fresh faced and all American except when an ethnic part is called for. And in more than a Disney tradition the two leads look way too old to be playing high school fresh. The first episode had both of them trying to get into the cool kids crowd led by the quarterback Chad Buchanan who might pass for a college senior. But that's what I've come to expect since I was that age.

I'm sure there's enough teen eye candy to attract viewers for the allotted time that this and other Disney shows have.

This was one of the best if not "the" best show on the Disney Channel. I wish it had gone one more season. But (sigh), all good things come to an end. I have heard of rumblings,that of a movement exists by fans to see if the ABC network "Freeform" will pick it up. That would be so sweet. The shows cast was great with Olivia Holt as the star and Austin North as the twin brother. Peyton Clark ,Piper Curda, and Sara Gilman rounding out the group.I think there are big things on the horizon for these talented kids.I know that there is a fools hope of a chance that Freeform will pick up the show let alone renew it with new episodes, but if they did I would like to see more of the "Rescuers" band with new music. I just wish these shows had some merchandise like mugs and t-shirts to offer. That would be to quote Logan,"Awesome".

This is a new show about a group of friends who always manage to get themselves into big trouble. The episodes usually start out with them standing in the middle of a mess they made and having to explain it to an authority figure whether it be parents, school principal, a business owner or in one case the U.S. Secret Service.

A show can be no better than the cast. There are five main characters, two twins who are blond and shallow, a gorgeous chinita with beautiful brown eyes and amazing hair, the weird girl and a quirky guy. In the real world five people this different would never be buds, but this strong friendship bond is the background of the show.

The show does involve some off-color humor such as a guy relieving himself in someone else's private bathroom thereby stinking it up, and another episode involves copious amounts of vomiting so immature people like me will love it.

It's a commonly accepted notion that TV shows containing characters the audience can relate to will determine the success or failure of a show. This isn't always the case, most notably with the early-1980's Britcom "The Young Ones." It's also known that fans of "Kickin' It" were disappointed when Olivia Holt left that sitcom to do this show, which has been unfairly panned by IMDb users and other critics. This is kind of sad. The show has a silly and fascinating main cast of characters. Yes, there are similarities to FRIENDS, but that's not really that bad, and for the record the "cafe with the couches" was named "Central Perk." This show's version of Central Perk is called "Rumble Juice," a smoothie joint under a Chicago "L" station in Evanston, Illinois. Interesting of It's a Laugh Productions to choose edge cities for locations, rather than big ones kids might be more familiar with. I await a sitcom taking place in Yonkers, Mount Vernon, or Long Beach, New York in the future.

The premise is fairly simple; Fraternal twins Lindy and Logan Watson (Olivia Holt and Austin North) enter high school with each other and their three friends, and get into all kinds of trouble along the way, especially as they try to break away from having to do things with each other. The fact that Lindy is book-smart and helpful while Logan is a slacker may help them distinguish themselves between each other. Besides the Watson twins, the three other kids that make up the "Fab 5" include smart fashionista Jasmine Kang (played by A.N.T. Farm's Piper Curda), High-strung germophobe Garrett Spenger (Peyton Clark), And last, but far from least, the quirk-alicious group weirdo Delia Delfano (Sarah Gilman).

A standard episode usually plays out like this; The kids end up in some kind of fiasco, and usually have to explain to adults how the big mess of the week came about in the first place. The rest of the episode is strictly a flashback until it gets to the big mess at the beginning of the episode. Routine as it may be, it's hardly boring. What's not routine are the kids themselves. For once, the usual trope of the smart kid of the group wearing the glasses isn't true here. Not that Delia doesn't have a brain in that head of hers, but honestly, the only thing she has in common with Daria Morgendorffer is that she's a brunette with glasses who prefers the natural look.

Of course, the show's not all about Miss Gilman's character. Typical of most Disney shows, it produces a romantic storyline between some of the characters, primarily Jasmine and Logan, which it gave subtle hints about until the episode "Lindy Nose Best," where it damn near served it to the viewers on a silver platter. Jasmine is also the reason Lindy learned to be a little more fashionable, according to some sources, and she's actually the brainiac of the group.

As another reviewer mentioned, this show is non-musical, which is also a departure for Disney... so far. Olivia Holt sings the theme song, as well as other Disney-related musical projects past and present, and Piper Curda plays the drums and has a musical side-career of her own. So there's always a chance that the producers might try to integrate these aspects of their personality into the series.

To the surprise of many, the show is getting a second season. It's good enough that it deserves a chance, but knowing how hard the critics have slammed this show, I'll be surprised if there's a third.

Among the production disasters that the show had, I mean, Disney changed absolutely the entire production and writers for the second season, a show that I feel could have given much more, the characters were nice and they had chemistry with each other, thanks in due to the good cast it had, this was Disney's Friends, but I feel that its lack of focus towards something predetermined, because the formula of starting the episodes showing the climax of the episode was something interesting, but its abrupt change of focus in the second season was what ended up burying the show, the inclusion of insufferable and annoying characters like Betty, it just brought the show to a death that it shouldn't have been, I think this show was on the wrong network as well, it should have gone to Freeform or even Nickelodeon, because I feel that its potential would have been better used, the show is good, it is not the peak of comedy, but it ends up being a good show.