Incredible Crew

My seven year old cousin isn't even entertained by this garbage. The jokes are poor, idiotic, and unfunny. It has never made me laugh, let alone the child who is the "intended audience" for Cartoon Network. I'm not one of these "nostalgia" lovers. I personally enjoy Adventure Time and even Regular Show among other new shows of theirs. This show is a poor rip-off of a good show, MadTV, or at least, that's how I view it. They have good shows. Like Adventure Time, which requires a bit of thinking, and even provides lessons and such. This show is just more proof parents are all too willing to shove their kid in front of a bright box and essentially hypnotize them. This is a show made for the people who don't care about anything other than a little bit of entertainment, or getting their child to shut up for awhile. It's above even Annoying Orange for it's sheer stupidity.

This is honestly such a sad show. By 'sad', I mean lame and cheesy. This show is essentially a compilation of idiotic acts performed by many people. Essentially, a ultra watered down version of Robot Chicken. Not only does this show lack creativity, it lacks good acting as well. The jokes they tell are so predictable that it hurts to watch this show. Overall, this show is neither funny nor entertaining. I mean, really Cartoon Network, REALLY?! Even if this show had a decent plot, the animation is so poor and lacking creativity that it isn't even worth you time to watch it. I honestly don't know how long this awful show will last. I mean, the attempt to create something good is there; I will give it that. However, if it is not entertaining, then there is no point in watching Incredible Crew.

Setting aside the basic problem that this is a LIVE ACTION show on the CARTOON network-its just awful, period.

It is obviously attempting, poorly, to replicate the Hip Tongue-firmly-in-cheek paradigm/model of humor made famous by Adult Swim. I've seen, and unfortunately I cannot get that time back, 2 episodes of the show. Both made numerous attempts to copy Adult Swim's model without any of the intelligence and references that make it work. Garbage like "unfun party games", "oven mitt hi-five", etc isn't referencing anything, doesn't have the voice, and just plain doesn't WORK anything like Adult Swim's bumpers do.

Apart from that, the show doesn't seem to be written or edited by anyone who has any real comedy experience. The "Big Name" associated with it is Nick Cannon,a producer possibly best known for the "Wild'n Out" franchise-the only arguable success among a number of self-titled, aggrandizing-but-mediocre flops like "The Nick Cannon Show" (11 episodes) and "Nick Cannon Presents" (on for maybe 10 months). This is a guy whose total career spans about 9 years and has managed to average a failed show every 2. Other than the American Idol imitation "America's Got Talent" which manages to wow the American Television viewer with season after season of mediocrity and confusion with "the voice", "american idol", etc You have to assume he's being overpaid for his two minutes of throw away tokenisms like "you go girl" and "you know you got it G" or he's got deep pockets because otherwise he would have faded away by 09 and thankfully disappeared into the late-night reality show/infomercial black hole.

His lack of talent, and apparently, lack of ability to judge talent as a result, has led to this awful train wreck. Cartoon Network's best spin calls IC a "In-Your-Face New Comedy Experience". If you have the misfortune to watch it, you will almost certainly know that means exactly what is really says..nothing. The "sketches" vary so HUGELY in size from 2-3 seconds to ten minutes, in style from throw-aways like someone playing drums with broken violins for 2 seconds to 5 minute decent product value fake rap videos, and in production quality from decent to things that wouldn't get hits on youtube-that the viewer is ALMOST tricked into thinking he HAS changed the channel.

The above mentioned lack of experience and direction really is a glaring problem on a show which doesn't have much to balance it out with. As a result, the episodes have NO continuum, nothing to draw in the viewer, and nothing to keep him. Their best bet is to hope that whomever has the ratings boxes accidentally hits on the show while surfing and remains out of curiosity...sort of a "is that a car accident or have they pulled over to urinate" model of viewer retention.

I have no idea if the 'talent' has talent or not, but they certainly aren't demonstrating it here. They may or may not be acting as if they are bad actors-(see above poor-attempt-at-hip-comedy)-and they may or may not be poorly directed or acting as if they are not being directed at all. It's impossible to judge anything when its so immersed in mediocrity and plain awful narrative/presentation. The thing is-these clean-cut, bleached-teeth glaring smiler, bright-clown-like-color kids aren't going to pull off "hip" or "cynical" or even "sarcastic". So their attempts to do so just leave the viewer wondering what they are meant to be communicating..as in: "IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY?....OR IS CARTOON NETWORK JUST JOKING ABOUT THIS SHOW" I THINK its supposed to be the former...but, after seeing two of the episodes...it might just be the latter.

Cartoon Network has gone nowhere but down over the last 5 or so years. This show is so ridiculously annoying. My brother won't stop watching it, and I have to hear it all the time. The things these kids say and do are not even remotely entertaining. They think they are being funny with the whole "Burping Grandma" bit, but they are just being so freaking annoying. None of the sketches are funny. They are all either really stupid or really annoying, or both! This is honestly no better than anything Disney has released over the past 5 years. If anything, it is worse than any of that "canned laughter" crap. I hope that Cartoon Network sees that this show is trash and gets rid of it.

I'm amazed that this show made it from the drawing board to the television screen. Not only does this show prove that Cartoon Network is out of ideas, they are imposing imbecile behavior onto children. The most annoying thing voted by the human race is a child screaming. That is all this show does. Nothing in this show is "funny" everything in the skits are super-imposed and is absent of any sort of depth, emotion, or complexity. This show promotes behavior that is not acceptable in social settings such as home or school.

I'm not saying Cartoon Network has done bad overall. I myself enjoy Adventure time and the Regular show, which were great additions to the station.

Please,

The Incredible Crew has got to go.