I Just Want My Pants Back

Peter Vack is the weak manchild hipster lead in an MTV series about a bunch of aimless 20something slackers. One night he had incredible sex with an amazing girl, but she steals his pants and disappears. But unlike the title 'I Just Want My Pants Back', he actually wants more than just his pants back. He wants her back, too.

Kim Shaw plays a great sassy best friend. She has great chemistry as the best friend. Elisabeth Hower and Jordan Carlos play their more responsible friends. They're the most stable couple they know. It lasted 12 episodes. They made great group chemistry. That's their biggest asset.

First of all, I started to watch this show without any expectations, only for easy entertainment. I liked the basic idea of the show, and all the simplicity of the sentence "I just want my pants back" sounded good to me. Maybe it's way too similar to How I Met Your Mother, but I still like it. The story had potential, but in the first some episodes, they've ruined it. The acting was poor, the hand recorded footage were too unfocused and so... I didn't really see the future in the show, but I gave it another go. And so I was right. The actors got way better, they started to build their own characters, and so the story got back to the main topic, with short side-stories. I think that's all I want from this show, to be simple and entertaining. So I Just Want My Pants Back is good for a teenage easy entertainment TV show, and if they'll put in the effort, and get all the potential out of the story, then it can be a very good production, that we will remember in the future.

This show isn't ALL that bad, but it has been done before. There are 4 friends...2 are the couple, and the other 2 are good friends who are opposite sexes and will likely end up together, and then there are all sorts of random hookups and talking about them with each other, vividly, after. Big surprise, right? Another show about mostly selfish people in their 20s, who have some seemingly charming traits masking their lack of direction (e.g., "I'm going to look for her on craigslist missed connections").

EDIT: The last few episodes have improved and the characters are acting like real, young adult, human beings. It is very watchable at this point, although it has still been done before.

Sharp, funny, clever show. I loved Tina and Kent the intern, both were very funny together!!! The show depicts a lot of the modern angst of 20-something kids trying to succeed in a difficult world today given career issues, down economy, looking for love, being on your own, etc. But it did so in a very sharp witted way, making it very entertaining. For example, Jason telling an elderly man sitting in a chair on the sidewalk that he has a "hot date", and the man expectorating to the ground in response--funny. You really see all the foibles of uncertain decisions made by the characters in terms of who/how to fall in love, but you are really rooting for Jason, Tina, and Kent the intern to succeed in their quests.

Finally, a sitcom like show about people my age! most sitcoms are about kids in high school played by actors in their 20's or people in their late 20's played by actors in their 30's who eventually get married and have kids.

What we need are more shows about that time just after college or university, moving to the big city and finding themselves (20-25).

I love Seinfeld, Friends and new shows like How I met your mother and community. These shows are slightly easier to relate to because its current but there are so few shows that are set for my age group. and actors my age are all playing kids in high school.