Too much of everything

To me, this movie is perfection.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The Pitts never got its fair shake as a FOX sitcom because it had one very severe count against it -- it was clean humor. (This partly explains some of the problems of the survival of Oliver Beane, which aired around the same time, but was given a little more opportunity to find an audience and reformat to be more appealing--although the idiot executives didn't happen to notice the ridiculous time slot).The Pitts was a great show if you ever were a fan of sarcastic, witty horror comedy humor like you might find in 'My Best Friends Vampire' or 'My Boyfriend's Back.' Jokes and punks that were obvious, but intended as a state of normalcy. Hell, the story line involved a family who had a sort of supernatural touch. It was dumb humor, but you knew it was dumb humor when you watched it. That's what made it funny, that the situations were so outrageous. That's hard to pull off in a sitcom, too, because that is often skit quality material, something that need only be done sporadically as opposed to regular, half-hour weekly episodes. It's also better material for a movie.Unfortunately, the dweebs at FOX axed it pretty quickly. I think it only survived about five or six episodes, but nonetheless. It was about the closest thing I had seen to stupid humor, but clean humor, since the Kelsey Grammar variety hour which aired earlier this year, and almost as quickly as The Pitts, was dumped as well. The Networks don't want this. They may say, this sort of thing belongs on an obscure family channel somewhere, meanwhile we need the most violent, most erotic thing the FCC will allow us to run at this point.

This show had something going for it, but it was another one of the good shows that Fox never gave a chance like Oliver Beene because the people at Fox skim out the good stuff and bring on the garbage. It was kind of a strange and unusual theme for the show, a family who always has bad luck, but despite that the show was okay. My favorite episode is when Faith had that pipe in her head which made that weird hole right threw her head. Liz Pitt would have had to have been replaced later on that season to due to Kellie Waymire's shocking death. That was unexpected. A good replacement for her could have been Stephnie Weir from Mad TV. So much for this show.

I like this show. The humor is funny, both the mom and the daughter are babes and script obviously has some good lines. The bad news is that the show is quickly wearing thin on the cartoon antics and the far-fetched situations. If the show is supposed to be a live-action cartoon, it really hit the mark, but to survive on Fox, the show needs to turn straight and maybe go into another direction. The son on the show is a funny holy terror, but the dad is just played way too dumb. Let's face it, at it's core, "The Pitts" may actually just be time filler may be cancelled with just one season under its belt. I mean, anyone remember an obscure FOX series called "Whoops!" which also was based on a one joke device. The series might have been a lot better as a cartoon, but I'm still catching every episode while I can and maybe taping a few before it's gone.

This is so stupid. I mean, it is one of the dumbest shows ever. I shouldn't have to try this hard to laugh. Why make a show that is purposely trying to not be funny. Did the FOX executives think that people would lower their IQs for this crap. Even worse, it replaced Andy Richter Controls the Universe, which was actually a funny show. What were they thinking?The writing is sooooo bad. I just saw an episode where a beaver killed a doll that had stolen The Pitts' home. What's sad is that some of these plots could be funny, but they then turn into complete crapola. To conclude, this show should be on UPN.