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'Goode Family' makes fun of the world's do-gooders
Miami Herald ^ | May 27, 2009 | Glenn Garvin

Posted on 05/27/2009 2:47:31 PM PDT by La Lydia

Life's not easy if you're an organic-eating, tree-hugging, SUV-eschewing, carbon-footprintless, gender-identity-indifferent, diversity-celebrating, nonjudgmental (well, except for those damn U.S. flag pins) vegan pacifist. Just ask Gerald and Helen Goode, the First Couple of PC America.

They forget to check a box when adopting an African baby, and when little Ubuntu arrives, he's a white South African. They cart home free elephant dung from Barnum & Bailey for their organic garden, then remember that the circus exploits animals. They've raised their dog Che to be a vegan, but the neighborhood sure has a lot of missing squirrels.

Welcome to The Goode Family, a scathingly funny report from the front lines of America's culture wars. This new ABC adult cartoon, produced by Beavis and Butt-Head mastermind Mike Judge and his King of the Hill buddies John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky,...

Though it will no doubt be labeled right-wing agitprop by some of its trashed targets, The Goode Family is not really conservative, but something closer to the barbed libertarianism of South Park. What the show is really mocking is groupthink conformity...Set in a more-progressive-than-thou college town where shoppers at the supermarket gasp in horror if somebody arrives at the checkout counter without his own reusable grocery bag, The Goode Family mercilessly lampoons characters who conduct their lives by the watchword WWAGD, What Would Al Gore Do?...

...When Gerald, a college administrator, tells his boss his department needs more funding to improve the percentage of minority employees, the boss replies: ``Or we could just fire three white guys. Everybody wins!'' How long do you think it will be before we hear a joke like that from Jay or Dave?

The Goode Family.9-9:30 p.m. Wednesday.ABC

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: goodefamily; mikejudge; politicallycorrect; thegoodefamily; treehuggers
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Interesting the Washington Post ran this story today in the print edition but took it down off its website. WWAGD!
1 posted on 05/27/2009 2:47:32 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
if it is as funny as King of the Hill this will be my new favorite show.

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I tell you what.

2 posted on 05/27/2009 2:50:34 PM PDT by txroadkill (The Internet is all about me)
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To: La Lydia

That show sounds like it’s bordering on being a hate crime.


3 posted on 05/27/2009 2:50:35 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (33 shopping days to Graybeard58's 64th. b/day. Selah.)
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To: La Lydia

I find Mike Judge productions to be not bad, but not funny either. If King of the Hill had been a drama, there’d have been a reason to watch it. As it was, I can find more satisfying material not to laugh at.


4 posted on 05/27/2009 2:52:17 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: La Lydia
Go HERE for some clips. Looks like fun.
5 posted on 05/27/2009 2:54:55 PM PDT by redhead (Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain)
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To: La Lydia

Should be a funny show, but it’s typical of Judge to temper his criticism of liberalism by getting in some barbs at Christians. Calling the abstinence group “creepy” and saying they marry their fathers is absurd.

1 Cor. 1:18 “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing..”


6 posted on 05/27/2009 2:56:09 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: La Lydia

Cant wait..


7 posted on 05/27/2009 2:57:11 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Tublecane

I thought it was pretty funny when Grampa stole Gen. Santana’s wooden leg.


8 posted on 05/27/2009 3:00:14 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
This one? Or did they also run the Miami Herald article? (I'd think it'd be odd for them to put the Herald article on their web site, even if they put it in their print editions.)
9 posted on 05/27/2009 3:00:17 PM PDT by Devils Avocado
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To: La Lydia

Don’t think I’ll be wasting my time to watch it.


10 posted on 05/27/2009 3:01:01 PM PDT by mtg
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To: Devils Avocado

When I looked for it, I couldn’t find it on the website, so I grabbed the one in the Miami Herald. It is the same article. My search skills must be rusty, because I kept getting a different article on the same show.


11 posted on 05/27/2009 3:01:55 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

They drive a Yugo?


12 posted on 05/27/2009 3:02:54 PM PDT by oyez (To the extent veterans read it as an accusation -- and apology is owed(i.e. not given))
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To: Graybeard58

>That show sounds like it’s bordering on being a hate crime.

Now you’re just TRYING to get me to watch it, aren’t you? ;)


13 posted on 05/27/2009 3:05:04 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: La Lydia

Ubuntu the adopted white South African sounds like comedy gold.


14 posted on 05/27/2009 3:06:45 PM PDT by rom (Obama '12 slogan: Let's keep on hopin'!)
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To: txroadkill

Yeah man, I tell ya what, man. That dang ol’ King of the Hill, man. You just go there and change the channel. You got NBCABCCBSFOX. Need a dang remote.


15 posted on 05/27/2009 3:06:49 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: txroadkill
Loved B&B and think KOTH was poignant along the lines of The Wonder Years. But I believe this will nauseate with soft PC. The Goodes will be good and well intentioned.. in the end doing the right things ecologically - just doing them silly and learning a lesson along the way.

I content that Bobby is the KOTH referred to in the series title. Oh yeah!


16 posted on 05/27/2009 3:07:55 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Tublecane
If King of the Hill had been a drama, there’d have been a reason to watch it. As it was, I can find more satisfying material not to laugh at.

You sound like a real fun person to be around.....NOT!


17 posted on 05/27/2009 3:10:35 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: mtg
Don’t think I’ll be wasting my time to watch it.

And yet you wasted time reading the post and replying to it.

Where's the logic in that?

18 posted on 05/27/2009 3:13:34 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: La Lydia

and the RATS, take another one in the..............................HA ha!!!

19 posted on 05/27/2009 3:20:35 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: rom
I think this show has real potential. It is like Mike Judge has read my mind, and realizes I laugh at these Al Gore morons with bumper sticker laden hybrids, and produced a show just for my enjoyment.
20 posted on 05/27/2009 3:21:12 PM PDT by mickey finn
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