For those that can understand this, the teenage boy doesn’t have the most discerning tastes. A lot of the things I liked then have stuck with to form my opinions on entertainment and what not. Some things, we’ll say Maddox and his rants don’t hold up in quality compared to “The Whitest Kid U’ Know.” For the unaware, these white kids are a five piece sketch comedy troupe from New York. They are (from left to right; Darren, Sam, Trevor, Zach and Timmy.) The roses to fame doing stage shows in college, then struck out on the road. They were really one of the first groups to really benefit from things like YouTube and MySpace. There videos gathered steam and in 2007 they debuted a self-titled show on Fuse. Sadly Fuse and MySpace, are also examples of things I liked as a teenagers that now suck eggs. The kids then moved to IFC, where their brand of dark and gross humor was able to flourish for 4 more seasons.
A lot of sketch groups come and go. In an era that didn’t have a lot of interest in such things, the “Whitest Kids” stood up and said, “Hey, I bet people want to see us act goofy while dressed as Hitler or a dinosaur. Neigh, they need it.” So that is what they did. From humble beginnings that can be seen in season one, (like sketches filmed at their day jobs and in their apartment with all the ideas for sketches written on the wall clearly in the background) to the high budget War on Drugs that took place in most of season 5, the group never lost their need to be weird, offensive and generally stoner material. Some people write them off as just stoner humor. I am not one though and I love it, so I personally pay no attention to that theory.
A lot of people have done gross jokes. A lot of people have done tasteless jokes. Even more people have done shock and absurdist comedy. This show had something different though. They did these things with a childlike innocence I’ve never seen anyone use when writing sketches about shooting babies or how Abe Lincoln was being a dick and got himself killed.
Abe then calls him a “skinny fat piece of shit” over and over. Sadly, not everything was as golden as Abe Lincoln getting hammered in the ass. As great as season one and two were, season three made me stop watching the show. This is the closest I think they got to just catering idiot stoners. There were obviously some good sketches, but one I won’t dignify by saying its name was about some stupid dragon and they said the things name about 15 times and wasted ten minutes of my life. The last two seasons got a lot better as I think they either got cleaner or more focused. Perhaps it was their feature film bombing that made them realize their show needed to be the main focus.
Believe it or not, Trevor is the brain of the operation. He also wrote that awful movie that I love.
Reviewing the show sketch by sketch would be a waste of my time and yours. I will make a few suggestions that you better listen to or I’ll send Sam to grape you. That’s right, grape.
I’ll start with that sketch. Just search about them graping. You won’t be mislead. I’ll just rattle off some names. “Movie Pitchin’ Guy”, “Saturday”, “Europeans”, “Opposite Day Lwayer”, “The Slow Jerk”, “Sam in the Bag”, “Bigfoot vs. Gravedigger”, “Blind not Blind”, “Totally Gay for America”, “Water Balloons”, “He’s got Poop on his hands” and last but not least, “Tattoo Parlor.” That last sketch is pretty great, if for anything, creating the best tattoo of all time.
Happy Birthday Rick!
So you can see fully how great it is.
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