As The Wrench Turns (I Fall Asleep)
I like the Car Talk radio show on NPR. I download the podcasts and listen to them on long drives, so when I heard that the Car Talk brothers where going to have their own animated prime time sitcom I was excited. When I heard it was going to be on PBS I was less excited. And after watching two episodes of it last night I am no longer excited.
It was on at 10pm on my PBS station and I think PBS made a mistake putting it on that late. It is basicaly a kid's cartoon with a few subtle jokes that are meant for a mature auidience but it is not going to keep anyone over the age or 11 or under the age or 78 entertained for very long. Now I realize I am not the target audience for this show nor am I the average PBS viewer.
Average PBS viewers:
But As The Wrench Turns should really be sold as a kids show rather than as an animated sitcom. I was hoping it would be a midly entertaining show but it really isn't. It just isn't funny and the best parts of the radio show - the brothers personalities, the freewheeling format - do not translate to the cartoon. I wanted to like the show and I tried to get into it but I just couldn't.
Episodes revolve around the adventures of the brothers on the radio and in their garage with their nauseatingly multicultural group of mechanics. You have the Latino who likes fancy clothes, the really smart old black guy, and the burly eastern European who you can't understand. The stories though are too childish and too dull (A "dull ride" according to the "clever" T.V. critic at the LA Times*. (yuk yuk)). You might get one laugh an episode but it won't be worth the time spent.
Verdict: It stinks and I don't like it. Stick to the radio show.
*Link dead and I don't feel like searching. You'll just have to trust me.
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